Keynote addresses what artificial intelligence demands of African lawyers, regulators and courts.
H.E. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, former Vice President of Nigeria and Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Justice Research Institute, delivers the keynote address at the 16th Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) Annual Conference in Cairo. The address, The African Lawyer in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Leveraging Technology to Achieve a Just and Prosperous Africa, examines the intersection of policy, professional ethics and machine intelligence in African legal practice.
The session addresses policymakers, jurists and legal researchers confronting questions of regulation, professional responsibility and access that AI adoption raises for the continent’s justice systems.
African jurisdictions are adopting legal technology faster than they are regulating it; the resulting policy gap will determine whether AI narrows or widens the access-to-justice divide.