Episode 3: Artificial Intelligence and Legal Theory (ft. Domingos Farinho)

The guest for this third episode of the HAPL podcast is Domingos Soares Farinho, currently professor auxiliar at the Faculdade de Direito of the Universidade de Lisboa, member of the Centro de Investigação em Direito Público (CIDP) do Instituto de Ciências Jurídico-Políticas da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, and member of Lisbon’s ALF team. In the first part of this highly interactive interview with Julieta Rabanos and Bojan Spaić, Farinho introduces his academic genealogy and discusses with the hosts about the relation between legal theory and legal practice, focusing on Portugal’s experience on the matter and his personal experience as a practitioner. In the second part of the interview, Farinho discusses with the hosts about the relation and influence between technology development, law, and philosophy of law. The debate goes on to touch upon regulation of digital content, artificial intelligence, science fiction, production of texts by artificial intelligence, autonomy and liability, criteria for legal personhood, and much more. (00:00:00) HAPL Introduction (00:00:15) Interview Introduction – Welcome to Domingos Farinho (& General Rumbling) (00:04:25) Academic Genealogy and Non-Academic Experience (00:12:57) Relationship between Legal Theory and Legal Practice: Portugal’s experience (00:29:20) Relationship between Legal Theory and Legal Practice: Farinho’s experience (00:37:38) Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Autonomy (00:53:49) When does AI Matter to Law? Embodied Artificial Intelligence and the Possibility of Lawyer’s Replacement (01:09:27) Artificial Intelligence, Legal Personhood, and Science Fiction (01:23:41) Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, and Liability (01:52:29) Interview end – Farewell to Domingos Farinho (01:53:16) HAPL Outro [This episode was hosted by Julieta Rabanos and Bojan Spaić; edited by Bojan Spaić; uploaded and formatted by Julieta Rabanos]