The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence

AI appears to disrupt key private law doctrines, and threatens to undermine some of the principal rights protected by private law. The social changes prompted by AI may also generate significant new challenges for private law. It is thus likely that AI will lead to new developments in private law. This Cambridge Handbook is the first dedicated treatment of the interface between AI and private law, and the challenges that AI poses for private law. This Handbook brings together a global team of private law experts and computer scientists to deal with this problem, and to examine the interface between private law and AI, which includes issues such as whether existing private law can address the challenges of AI and whether and how private law needs to be reformed to reduce the risks of AI while retaining its benefits.

Author Biography

Ernest Lim is Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. A prize-winning researcher, he has published on the legal implications of AI and comparative corporate law and governance. He is the sole-author of three acclaimed monographs with Cambridge University Press: Social Enterprises in Asia: A New Legal Form (2023), Sustainability and Corporate Mechanisms in Asia (2020), and A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia (2019). He obtained his doctorate from Oxford. He used to practise law at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. Phillip Morgan is a Reader in Law at the University of York. A leading expert in tort law, his work on AI and tort has been funded by the ERC and UKRI (amongst others). He has held visiting positions at Oxford, Cambridge, HKU, Trinity College Dublin, and Georgetown. Phillip is a graduate of Cambridge (MA), Oxford (BCL), and UCL (PhD), and a Barrister of the Middle Temple. He also holds appointments as a part-time (‘fee-paid’) Judge in the Employment Tribunals and in the First-tier Tribunal.