ARCL
Accessible, Reliable, and Collaborative AI for Law
Developing, validating, testing, and deploying legal AI tools for Swiss law with the goal of increasing access to law.
Access to justice is a global challenge. From complex legal language to high costs of representation, barriers to the accessibility of law are multifold, often leaving specifically underserved communities and people in need in challenging situations.
To address the needs especially of migrants and individuals with lower economic status and to “bridge justice”, research on legal artificial intelligence (AI) tools supporting laypersons as well as resource-constrained legal professionals working in legal aid is needed.
Our project Bridging Justice: Accessible, Reliable, and Collaborative AI for Law (ARCL) builds on top of our recent research in this field to develop, validate, test, and deploy legal AI tools for Swiss law for underserved communities with the goal of increasing access to law.
ARCL aims at scientific impact and its translation into practical implementation and use that aids society. First, we examine barriers to access to law by drawing on computational law techniques and social science methods. To mitigate these barriers, we develop, validate, and deploy accessible and reliable legal AI tools in partnership with Caritas Switzerland.
For broad coverage, our two concrete use cases are aimed at legal professionals and laypersons, respectively. We next study how laypersons and legal professionals interact with the developed tools and measure their impact in the scope of the two use cases. Finally, we publicly deploy our tools to generate sustained societal impact. Across these steps, we synthesize design principles for effective human-AI collaboration in the legal domain.
We invite abstract submissions for Everyday Law: Building Representative Legal AI, our JURIX 2026 workshop on December 8, 2026. The abstract submission deadline is October 30, 2026. Read the call for contributions.
The ARCL team held its kick-off meeting, bringing project partners together to align on the project's goals, collaboration, and next steps.
August 2026
ARCL begins in August 2026. News and project updates will be published here.
Law & technology
Computer science & interaction
Applied artificial intelligence
Caritas partnership & coordination
PhD Student in Law
PhD Student in Information Systems
Additional team members will join soon.
University of St.Gallen
University of Lausanne
Caritas Switzerland
In cooperation with
