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Superjustice

Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

AI will transform law.
It will not automatically produce justice.

For judges, policymakers, legal scholars, law firm leaders, educators, technologists, and anyone thinking seriously about the future of justice.

By the Authors
Samuel I. Becher
City University of Hong Kong
Benjamin Alarie
University of Toronto
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Institutional access: the complete online edition is already available at Oxford Academic; the hardcover publishes July 30.

Publishing Jul 30, 2026
Format Hardcover
Pages 256
ISBN 978-0198991908
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The full Introduction to Superjustice is now available as a free download from SSRN. It maps the book's argument across three parts: diagnosing the Ten Pillars of Legal Dysfunctionality, charting the evolving relationship between human judgment and AI in adjudication, and presenting CRISPR-J, the design framework for legal systems that are cost-effective, rapid, inclusive, smart, predictive, and resilient.

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About the Book

Justice delayed is justice denied. Courts are backlogged, legal help remains expensive and out of reach for many, and rigid laws struggle to keep pace with modern life. Superjustice sets out a new paradigm: harnessing AI to transform law from a centralized, one-size-fits-all system into a dynamic, responsive framework designed for human flourishing, where justice is a universally accessible service rather than a luxury for the few.

The Framework · CRISPR-JCost-effective · Rapid · Inclusive · Smart · Predictive · Resilient Justice

The book is candid about the hard parts. It engages directly with algorithmic transparency, bias and hallucination, data privacy, the digital divide, and procedural justice, working through them with a Dynamic Challenges Matrix, and it expects resistance from entrenched interests and a transition measured in decades rather than quarters.

It is not a practice manual, a doctrinal treatise, or a technical machine-learning text, and it argues a position rather than reporting neutrally. A person with an active legal problem needs a lawyer or local legal aid, not this book.

In the same spirit of candour: the authors used AI tools throughout the drafting of the book and this site, for brainstorming, research, structure, and proofreading among other tasks. The judgments, and any errors, are their own. A machine-readable version of this site, written for AI agents with every claim linked to a checkable source, lives at superjustice.com/for-ai.

Neither utopian fantasy nor dystopian warning, Superjustice offers a pragmatic vision for transforming justice from a scarce resource into an abundant one.

Inside the Book

Three parts, ten chapters, one argument. The contents as published by Oxford University Press.

Part IThe Foundations of Superjustice

  1. A Paradigm Shift
  2. Ten Pillars of Legal Dysfunctionality
  3. Toward Hybrid Legal Decentralization
  4. From Gridlock to Dynamism

Part IIImplementation and Realization of Superjustice

  1. The New Code of Justice
  2. Pervasive Justice
  3. Educating for Superjustice

Part IIIFuture Directions and Challenges

  1. The Future of Justice Work
  2. CRISPR-J in the Age of Superjustice
  3. Charting Superjustice

Conclusion: Law for Human Flourishing.

About the Authors

Samuel I. Becher

City University of Hong Kong School of Law

Samuel I. Becher has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of consumer law, contract law, and technology. He is Professor of Law at the City University of Hong Kong School of Law and a Center for AI Safety AI & Society Fellow. He has authored more than 100 professional and academic contributions published in various reputable journals. His work has been cited by academics, courts, and legislators, and covered by media in more than 30 countries and 20 languages. He holds an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School and an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University, and clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel.

Benjamin Alarie

University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Benjamin Alarie has spent more than a decade working at the intersection of AI, tax, and law. In 2016 he coined the term “legal singularity” in the University of Toronto Law Journal, arguing that artificial intelligence would eventually make legal reasoning far more predictable, coherent, and accessible. He has since developed the thesis in his 2023 book The Legal Singularity (University of Toronto Press, with Abdi Aidid), which won the AAP PROSE Award and was shortlisted for the Donner Prize, and in Blue J, the AI research platform he co-founded in 2015 and leads as CEO, now used at thousands of accounting and law firms. He holds the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto, where he has held the chair since 2016 and been a full professor since 2018. He holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School and clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for the Honourable Madam Justice Louise Arbour.

Superjustice extends a line of work: the 2016 paper that named the legal singularity (Alarie); The Legal Singularity (2023, Aidid & Alarie), which argued prediction can make law complete and knowable; LexOptima (2025, Becher & Alarie) and Legal Order in the Age of AI Agents (Becher & Alarie, forthcoming 2026); and, in practice, Blue J, which applies the trajectory to tax. This book asks how legal systems should be redesigned once those capabilities exist.