Artificial intelligence and real decisions: predictive systems and generative AI vs. emotive-cognitive legal deliberations.

The use of artificial intelligence in law represents one of the biggest challenges across different legal systems. Supporters of predictive systems believe that decisionmaking could be more efficient, consistent and predictable by using AI. European legislation and legal scholars, however, identify areas where AI developments are at high risk or too dangerous to be used in judicial proceedings.

(Dis)passionate law stories: the emotional processes of encoding narratives in court.

In this conceptual article, we propose that legal professional decision makers' transformation of narratives in court (encoding) influences their emotional attunement to the stories at hand. First, we argue that the process of encoding is linked to the strict demand for dispassion in legal settings. Second, we introduce three techniques that regulate the emotional processes at play during the encoding of law narratives: , , and .