This chapter offers an overview of how artificial intelligence (AI) systems are being used (and could potentially be used) within the context of public courts to help predict legal outcomes, generate content such as motions and other court documents, make recommendations to legal stakeholders regarding positions to adopt (including whether to go forward with a suit) or become a substitute to human judges in the decision-making process. Looking at all these potential scenarios, the authors present the pros and cons of relinquishing a portion of legal stakeholders’ autonomy to AI systems, focusing on underlying risks linked to bias, datasets and a pervasive misunderstanding of what AI system are, and what they can do. The chapter suggests that, while the use of AI can, in many instances, positively affect impediments to access to public courts such as delays, and cost, legal stakeholders need to better understand how this can impact fundamental legal tenets.

The influence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on the law and legal order of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region might seem not to be a case of inter-Asian law because it occurs within a single jurisdiction. Yet, Beijing has employed a wide range of means to shape Hong Kong’s legal order, ranging from making or interpreting PRC law for Hong Kong, to mandating or pressing for local lawmaking in Hong Kong, to more diffuse influences on Hong Kong’s legal order and its context. Chinese influence has made Hong Kong law less liberal and democratic and more like the PRC’s. The China–Hong Kong case shows the spectrum of modes of inter-Asian legal influence, the complexity of the relationship between transplants or exports of legal models and legal influence, and the issues that lie ahead in an era of possible competition between China and the United States/the West for legal influence.