Smart Technologies: Innovation for an Efficient Legal System
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https://doi.org/10.18050/revucv-scientia.v16n1a7Keywords:
legal technologies, artificial intelligence, legal systemAbstract
The subject of intelligent technologies as a mechanism for innovation in an efficient legal system has gained significant importance in recent years, particularly due to the spread of COVID-19, which accelerated digital interaction among the users of the legal system. Since that time, significant research information has been found, mainly in the most developed countries of the world, such as China and the United States. Hence, the purpose of this research is to examine the impact and repercussions of intelligent technologies on the efficiency of the legal system, considering studies conducted over the past six years. Forty reliable articles were analyzed, all related to the topic under review; the theory of Masbernat & Pasquino (2023) is highlighted in the sense that we are facing a paradigm shift, as well as the studies of Papagianneas & Junius (2023) and Shi et al. (2021). The literature was thoroughly analyzed using articles from Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCO, vLex, and ScienceDirect, covering the time interval from 2018 to November 2023, to analyze the scientific production related to intelligent legal technologies.
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