Biography
L. Thorne McCarty is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Law at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He received a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University in 1966, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1969. From 1971 to 1973, he was a Law and Computer Fellow at Stanford, where he built the first artificial intelligence system in law. See “Reflections on TAXMAN: An Experiment in Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning,” Harvard Law Review, 90(5), 837-893 (1977). He was a co-founder and the first Program Chair of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) in 1987, and he was a co-founder and the first President of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL) in 1991. Professor McCarty is the author of more than 70 articles and papers in the field, and he is still active in research. He published a review article on “Finding the Right Balance in Artificial Intelligence and Law,” in W. Barfield and U. Pagallo, eds., Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence, Chapter 3, 55-87 (Edward Elgar, 2018). His most recent journal article is “Clustering, Coding. and the Concept of Similarity,” Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10472-024-09929-7.
