The special issue of the Singapore Academy of Law Journal, edited by Daniel Seng ’92, has been published by Academy Publishing

The issue features articles on: law, technology and the problem of speed; what questions should be asked when creating and implementing AI law, featuring practical examples from Estonia; legal and regulatory intervention in the cryptocurrency space; the capabilities of modern employee monitoring software available on the market, and highlights the various data protection issues that may arise from the use of such software; shortcomings in traditional approaches to cybersecurity and data privacy; private and common property law rights in personal data; the recent infringement decision of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore regarding Uber’s sale of its Southeast Asian business to Grab pursuant to the contemporary law and economics literature on two-sided digital platforms; issues about the admissibility of electronic evidence and also about the limitations inherent in machine learning; how artificial intelligence, given its current and foreseeable state of development, may be used in judicial decision-making; assessing consumer risk of automated document assembly; the next step forward in computational jurisprudence; and how design principles or “systems thinking” may be used to organise subject matter and develop laws and legal systems to deal with uncertain subjects and issues.

The volume includes articles by Daniel himself, Joseph Lau LLM ’19, Benjamin Wong ’15, Hu Ying, Kenneth Khoo ’14, Shaun Lim ’18, Helena Whalen-Bridge LLM ’02, and Dean Simon Chesterman, as well as a foreword by Justice Judith Prakash ’74.

Further details are available here.