Simon Kremser
Law, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg
Brief description of my doctoral project
The dissertation project “The Legal Commentary in Automated Legal Work” examines the future of this genre in the context of AI-supported legal practice. It investigates whether the core functions of legal commentaries can be reproduced by agent-based systems or replaced by functional equivalents. The study is divided into a legal and discourse-theoretical part as well as a legal infor-matics component. It first analyzes the legal commentary as both a textual genre and a data structure, conceptualizing it as a networked system of statutes, case law, and legal scholarship. It then explores its role in structuring legal discourse, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault. In the final stage, AI-based prototypes for automated commentary are developed and evaluated using German administrative procedural cost law (VwGO), with the aim of establishing comparability and identifying potential functional equivalents.