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AI, Legal Labor, and the Jevons Paradox

Cheng-Chi (Kirin) Chang

Conventional wisdom holds that artificial intelligence will reduce demand for lawyers by automating tasks that once required human labor. This Essay challenges that assumption by applying the Jevons paradox to legal practice. In 1865, William Stanley Jevons observed that efficiency gains in r...