Huabing Li

Bridging the Gap or Reinforcing the Moat?

Experimental Evidence on GenAI in Access to Justice and Junior Legal Services

Funded by Erasmus Trustfonds

Working paper, expected 2027, with Roee Sarel

Generative AI promises legal help to anyone who can type a question, yet lawyers may gain even more from it, because they know what to ask. This paper tests in an experiment whether AI narrows or widens the gap between laypeople and legal professionals, using tasks that cannot simply be pasted into a chatbot.

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Cite

Li, Huabing, and Roee Sarel. “Bridging the Gap or Reinforcing the Moat? Experimental Evidence on GenAI in Access to Justice and Junior Legal Services.” Working paper, expected 2027.

BibTeX
@unpublished{liaigap,
  author = {Li, Huabing and Sarel, Roee},
  title = {{Bridging the Gap or Reinforcing the Moat? Experimental Evidence on GenAI in Access to Justice and Junior Legal Services}},
  note = {Working paper, expected 2027}
}