Professor William Lucy's Outputs (21)

Agency in the Face of AI (2025)
Book Chapter
Lucy, W. (in press). Agency in the Face of AI. In R. Brownsword, & L. Di Matteo (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Governance of Technology: Discontent, Disconnect and Disruption. Cambridge University Press

Legal Regulation, Technological Management and the Future of Human Agency (2024)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (online). Legal Regulation, Technological Management and the Future of Human Agency. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqae035

This article examines the role of human agency within two competing regulatory paradigms: law and technological management. It sketches both paradigms and suggests that the direction of regulatory travel in familiar jurisdictions is from the former t... Read More about Legal Regulation, Technological Management and the Future of Human Agency.

Algorithms and adjudication (2023)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (2024). Algorithms and adjudication. Jurisprudence, 15(3), 251-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2023.2243712

This essay addresses a version of Jerome Frank’s question – ‘Are Judges Human?’ – asking instead: are human judges necessary? It begins, in section II, by outlining the technological developments which inform the view that they are not and critically... Read More about Algorithms and adjudication.

The Death of Law, Another Obituary (2022)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (2022). The Death of Law, Another Obituary. Cambridge Law Journal, 81(1), 109-138. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008197321001021

This essay argues that a defining characteristic of modern law – the distinctive way in which it judges its addressees – will disappear. After sketching the distinctive nature of modern law's judgment, I show that it is part of a broader regulatory p... Read More about The Death of Law, Another Obituary.

Law School 2061Ψ (2021)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (2022). Law School 2061Ψ. Modern Law Review, 85(2), 539-553. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12689

Access to Justice and the Rule of Law (2020)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (2020). Access to Justice and the Rule of Law. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 40(2), 377-402. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqaa012

This article examines the often-affirmed link between access to justice (AtoJ) and the rule of law. Section 2 offers an account of what we mean by AtoJ, arguing that the most plausible account of that idea has three components. Section 3 examines the... Read More about Access to Justice and the Rule of Law.

Law's judgement : some thoughts (2019)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (2019). Law's judgement : some thoughts. Problema anuario de filosofía y teoría del derecho (en línea), 13, 55-63

Law's Judgement: a Summary (2019)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (2019). Law's Judgement: a Summary. Problema anuario de filosofía y teoría del derecho (en línea), 13, 3-8

Is opacity a value? (2019)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (2019). Is opacity a value?. Ordines (Catanzaro), V(1), 1-26

Law's Judgement. (2017)
Book
Lucy, W. (2017). Law's Judgement. Hart Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509913312

Law's Judgement elucidates and defends a feature of contemporary law that is currently either overlooked or too glibly dismissed as morally troublesome or historically anachronistic. That feature is the abstract nature of law's judgement and its thre... Read More about Law's Judgement..

The Normative Standing of Access to Justice: An Argument from NonDomination (2016)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (2016). The Normative Standing of Access to Justice: An Argument from NonDomination. Windsor yearbook of access to justice, 33(2), 231-261. https://doi.org/10.22329/wyaj.v33i2.4930

After elucidating and defending an account of access to justice that is consistent with most uses of that notion in academic and policy discourse, this essay examines some arguments that attempt to show the value of access to justice. It shows that o... Read More about The Normative Standing of Access to Justice: An Argument from NonDomination.

The Rule of Law and Private Law (2014)
Book Chapter
Lucy, W. (2014). The Rule of Law and Private Law. In L. M. Austin, & D. Klimchuk (Eds.), Private law and the rule of law (41-66). Oxford University Press

Public and Private: Neither Deep Nor Meaningful? (2013)
Book Chapter
Lucy, W., & Williams, A. (2013). Public and Private: Neither Deep Nor Meaningful?. In K. Barker, & D. (. Jensen (Eds.), Private law : key encounters with public law (45-88). Cambridge University Press

Private and Public: Some Banalities About a Platitude (2013)
Book Chapter
Lucy, W. (2013). Private and Public: Some Banalities About a Platitude. In C. Mac Amhlaigh, C. Michelon, & N. Walker (Eds.), After public law (56-82). Oxford University Press

Equality Under and Before the Law (2011)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (2011). Equality Under and Before the Law. University of Toronto Law Journal, 61(3), 411-465. https://doi.org/10.1353/tlj.2011.0019

Persons in Law (2009)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (2009). Persons in Law. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 29(4), 787-804

Abstraction and the Rule of Law (2009)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (2009). Abstraction and the Rule of Law. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 29(3), 481-509. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqp010

What's Private about Private Law? (2009)
Book Chapter
Lucy, W. (2009). What's Private about Private Law?. In A. Robertson, & H. Tang (Eds.), Goals of private law (47-75). Hart Publishing

When lawyers turn to other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities for guidance, they usually do so in pragmatic spirit: they want answers to particular difficult questions. This pragmatic spirit might be both mistaken and philistine: mista... Read More about What's Private about Private Law?.

Abstraction and Equality (2009)
Journal Article
Lucy, W. (2009). Abstraction and Equality. Current Legal Problems, 62(1), 22-70. https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/62.1.22

Judges, distinguished (2008)
Book Chapter
Lucy, W. (2008). Judges, distinguished. In P. Cane, & J. Conaghan (Eds.), Oxford Companion to Law (649-651). OUP