6.6 Recent Trend: Jurimetrics / Use of AI in Research

Jurimetrics = the quantitative measurement of legal phenomena — the statistics-and- computation applied to law: the court's behaviour studies (the disposal rates, the sentence's variance — Criminology's sentencing-disparity questions quantified); the citation-network analysis (the precedent's web — which cases really govern); the legal-forecasting (the outcome's prediction models); the docket's analytics (the delay's decomposition — the civil-and-criminal pendency's science); and the law-reform's measurement (the impact evaluation's designs). Nepal's jurimetric frontier: the courts' own case-flow statistics (the annual reports' digitisation), the NKP's corpus- analysis (the doctrine's evolution mined at scale — the search-tools' era), and the access-to-justice indicators. The AI's turn (the current frontier): 1. The tools: the legal-research databases' AI search (the natural-language retrieval); the summarisation-and-translation aids; the drafting assistants (the contract's first draft); the analytics engines. 2. The powers: the speed (the hundred-case scan), the breadth (the cross-jurisdiction sweep), the pattern-detection (the doctrine's drift). 3. The dangers (the exam's critical core): the hallucination — the invented case-and- citation (the internationally reported incidents of AI-fabricated authorities; the sanction's stories — name the phenomenon, not the specifics); the authority's absence (the AI is not a source — the unverifiable output is unusable); the bias's inheritance (the training data's skews); the confidentiality's risk (the client's data in the machine's hands); the competence's erosion (the skill's atrophy — the student who never reads the…