Gregory Conti

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Gregory Conti is a legal scholar whose research sits at the compelling intersection of technology, automation, and law enforcement policy. His work has made significant contributions to our understanding of how algorithmic systems are reshaping the administration of justice, with a particular focus on the legal and societal implications of automated law enforcement. Conti's most influential contributions, all published in 2016, form a cohesive body of work examining the emergence of fully automated law enforcement systems — where crimes can be detected, perpetrators identified, and punishments imposed without any human involvement. His paper "Inefficiently Automated Law Enforcement" (18 citations) challenges the assumption that efficiency alone justifies automation, urging governments and citizens to weigh broader social costs. In "Confronting Automated Law Enforcement" (18 citations), he calls for a unified policy framework to govern these technologies. His experimental study, "Do Robots Dream of Electric Laws?" (17 citations), exposes a fundamental tension: existing laws were never designed with algorithmic enforcement in mind, forcing programmers to embed hidden legal assumptions into code. Together, these works have established Conti as a pioneering voice in the emerging field of law-as-algorithm, providing students and policymakers with essential frameworks for navigating an increasingly automated legal landscape.