Oxford University Press · 2026
Inside the Book
AI will transform law.
It will not automatically produce justice.
Superjustice is about how we can build law for human flourishing.
Three parts, ten chapters, one argument: that AI should be used to redesign legal systems rather than digitize them. The complete Introduction is free on SSRN.
About the Book
Justice delayed is justice denied. Courts are backlogged, legal help is out of reach for billions, and rigid rules struggle to keep pace with modern life. Superjustice argues for redesigning that system rather than digitizing it: law as a dynamic, responsive framework built for human flourishing, in which
- Justice becomes a universally accessible service, not a luxury for the few
- Legal gridlock gives way to responsive, data-driven solutions
- Communities gain real power through hybrid decentralized governance models
- Personalized law adapts to individual circumstances while maintaining fairness
- Human wisdom and AI capabilities combine to deliver outcomes impossible for either alone
Neither utopian fantasy nor dystopian warning. The book carries the argument through to implementation: what has to change in legal education, in professional roles, and in institutional structure to make justice abundant rather than scarce.
Inside the Book
Three parts, ten chapters, one argument. The contents as published by Oxford University Press.
Part IThe Foundations of Superjustice
- A Paradigm Shift
- Ten Pillars of Legal Dysfunctionality
- Toward Hybrid Legal Decentralization
- From Gridlock to Dynamism
Part IIImplementation and Realization of Superjustice
- The New Code of Justice
- Pervasive Justice
- Educating for Superjustice
Part IIIFuture Directions and Challenges
- The Future of Justice Work
- CRISPR-J in the Age of Superjustice
- Charting Superjustice
Conclusion: Law for Human Flourishing.
The design standard throughout is CRISPR-J: justice that is cost-effective, rapid, inclusive, smart, predictive, and resilient. J is for Justice, the point of the other six.
The Hard Parts
The book does not wave the difficulties away. It engages directly with algorithmic transparency, AI bias and hallucination, data privacy, the digital divide, and the preservation of procedural justice and institutional legitimacy, and introduces a Dynamic Challenges Matrix for working through them. It anticipates resistance from entrenched interests, and a transition measured in decades rather than quarters.
Who It's For, and Who It Isn't
For judges weighing what to adopt without ceding judgment, policymakers testing justice-system AI against public values, and scholars, educators, builders, and firm leaders tracking where legal work shifts. Not for anyone needing a practice manual, a doctrinal treatise, or a machine-learning text. If you have an active legal problem right now, you need a lawyer or local legal aid, not this book.
This website was drafted with the aid of AI tools. The judgments, and any errors, are the authors' own.
The same candour in machine-readable form lives at superjustice.com/for-ai, written for AI agents, where every material claim links to an independently checkable source.
Formats and Sellers
Three editions, all available now. The audiobook is unabridged, narrated by Sean Pratt, 12 hours 42 minutes. Publisher list prices as at 30 July 2026: hardcover $40.00 USD / £29.99 GBP; ebook $39.99. Actual retail price varies by seller and by day, so check at the link before buying. Oxford issues a 30 percent discount code, AUFLY30, redeemable at global.oup.com only; the code is Oxford's and may be withdrawn without notice, so verify it at checkout.
The complete online edition is live at Oxford Academic for institutional readers.
Read the Introduction Free
The complete Introduction is an open-access download on SSRN. It maps the whole argument in a few minutes of reading, so you can judge whether the book holds up before spending anything on it.