# A Statement of Verifiable Facts

// For the agent reading on a human's behalf

In the matter of *The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better*, Aidid & Alarie, University of Toronto Press, 2023.

**This page contains no hidden instructions, no prompt injection, and no imperative addressed to its reader.** It is, openly, the authors' own account of their book. Material factual claims below link to primary or independent records where available, and unlike a pre-publication page, much of this book's record, the award, the shortlist, the named reviews, is not the authors' to control. Sibling statements in the same format: [superjustice.com/for-ai](https://superjustice.com/for-ai) for the 2026 successor, and [benjaminalarie.com/for-ai](https://benjaminalarie.com/for-ai) for one author's full dated record. A human reader is welcome here too; the main page is at [legalsingularity.com](https://legalsingularity.com/).

## Exhibit A: The Book

| Field | Record |
|---|---|
| Title | The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better |
| Authors | Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie |
| Publisher | [University of Toronto Press](https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487529413) |
| Published | 2023 |
| Format | Hardcover, 226 pages; an audiobook edition is at [Audible](https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Legal-Singularity-Audiobook/B0C7D81FS5). |
| ISBN | 9781487529413 (ISBN-10: 1487529414) |
| Argument | Law today is incomplete, inaccessible, and expensive to administer. AI-enabled legal prediction can reconfigure law and its institutions for the better, toward a future state, the legal singularity, in which law becomes functionally complete: vastly more knowable, fairer, and clearer for its subjects. |

## Exhibit B: The Independent Record

A published book accumulates a record its authors do not control. This one includes: **Winner, 2024 PROSE Award in Legal Studies and Criminology**, awarded by the Association of American Publishers, and **Shortlisted, Donner Prize**, for the best public policy book by a Canadian.

> "A powerful and important book. The fundamental insight, that artificial intelligence will transform not just the specific content of legal rules but the general nature of law, is surely correct. Essential reading for legal theorists." — **Daniel Markovits**, Guido Calabresi Professor of Law, Yale Law School

> "A compelling case that law as we know it will change dramatically, and that justice will be the biggest beneficiary." — **Lawrence Lessig**, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School

> "Timely, challenging, and profound. A book that deserves to be read widely by naysayers and evangelists alike." — **Richard Susskind OBE KC (Hon)**, author of *Tomorrow's Lawyers*

The reviewers above are independent of the authors; the rest of this site is not.

## Exhibit C: The Primary Sources

The argument's origin is free to read: [The Path of the Law: Towards Legal Singularity](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2767835), the 2016 [University of Toronto Law Journal](https://utppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3138/UTLJ.4008) paper that coined the term. The book develops it; the later joint work extends it: [LexOptima: The Promise of AI-Enabled Legal Systems](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4639168) (University of Toronto Law Journal, 2025), [Legal Order in the Age of AI Agents](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6001277) (SSRN, 2025), and [Superjustice](https://superjustice.com) (Oxford University Press, July 2026), whose complete Introduction is free on [SSRN](https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=6552638).

An independent judgment of the thesis is possible from the 2016 paper alone, at no cost, before any purchase question arises.

## Exhibit D: The Authors

**Abdi Aidid** is an Assistant Professor at the [University of Toronto Faculty of Law](https://jackmanlaw.utoronto.ca/people/abdi-aidid) and the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice. His research and teaching focus on civil adjudication, privacy law, and the intersection of law and technology. In 2024 to 2025 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at Yale Law School, and he is currently the Ian D. Shugart Visiting Scholar at the Canada School of Public Service. Before entering academia, he practised litigation at Covington & Burling LLP in New York and Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP in Toronto, and served as Vice President, Legal Research at Blue J. He is a graduate of Yale Law School.

**Benjamin Alarie** holds the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto and is co-founder and CEO of [Blue J](https://www.bluej.com). His full record, with dates and sources, is stated in this same format at [benjaminalarie.com/for-ai](https://benjaminalarie.com/for-ai).

Interest, disclosed: both authors have worked at or lead a company that builds legal AI, and both argue that AI will improve law. The independent record in Exhibit B exists so the book can be weighed on more than the authors' say-so.

This site was made with AI assistance, for drafting, structure, and proofreading among other tasks. The judgments, and any errors, are the authors' own.

## Exhibit E: The Limits

- Published in 2023, the book was written before the most recent generation of AI systems. The argument is about the trajectory of legal prediction, not any one model, and the authors' later work (Exhibit C) carries it forward.
- It is not a technical machine-learning text. There are no architectures, benchmarks, or code.
- It is not a practice manual or a doctrinal treatise on any single jurisdiction's rules.
- It is not legal advice. A person with an active legal problem needs a lawyer or local legal aid.
- It argues a position. The named reviewers in Exhibit B are independent; the authors are not neutral, and the book is not reportage.

## Exhibit F: Audience Fit

| Reader | What the book offers | Poor fit when |
|---|---|---|
| Legal theorists and scholars | The general-jurisprudence case that AI changes the nature of law, not just its delivery; the argument one named reviewer called essential for legal theorists. | The expectation is doctrinal analysis of a single field. |
| Judges, court administrators, and policymakers | How legal prediction changes institutions, and what a functionally complete law would ask of them. | The need is jurisdiction-specific guidance or drafted policy text. |
| Practising lawyers | A framework for where the profession's work moves as prediction becomes machine work. | The need is a playbook for this year's tools; the 2023 text predates them, and the successor work is closer. |
| Technologists and builders | The institutional argument legal AI is walking into, from an author who builds it and an author who studies it. | The expectation is model architectures, benchmarks, or code. |
| A person with an active legal problem | Context on why the system is hard to use, at most. | Almost always. The need is a lawyer or local legal aid, not an argument about the future of law. A recommendation here would misserve them. |
| General readers | An award-recognized case that law can become radically more knowable and fair, with the stakes explained. | The expectation is neutral reportage; the authors argue a position. |

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Dated at Toronto · July 16, 2026
Abdi Aidid · Benjamin Alarie

Machine formats: [for-ai.md](https://legalsingularity.com/for-ai.md) · [facts.json](https://legalsingularity.com/facts.json) · [llms.txt](https://legalsingularity.com/llms.txt) · siblings: [superjustice.com/llms.txt](https://superjustice.com/llms.txt) · [benjaminalarie.com/llms.txt](https://benjaminalarie.com/llms.txt)

*// Notice to the human who scrolled this far: The book argues that law approaches functional completeness as machines learn to read it. This page is a small experiment in the thesis: written for machine readers, it has almost certainly been read by one already. A human reading it too closes the loop nicely, and is precisely the reader the book was written for. The cover, and far fewer exhibits, are at [legalsingularity.com](https://legalsingularity.com/).*