Media & speaking

Media and speaking

Contact and press materials first; then speaking topics, upcoming appearances, published interviews and coverage, and independent reviews of the books. Biographies in three lengths are on the About page.

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Contact

By email

All media, interview, and speaking inquiries.

contact@benjaminalarie.com

Press kit

Direct download: academic CV (17 pp., complete publication and teaching record), headshot, and covers (Superjustice, The Legal Singularity). Bios in three lengths are on the About page, and as plain text: short, standard, full. The complete publication list is at /publications. The Superjustice press kit is at superjustice.com/media.

Speaking

Keynotes and conversations on the computational transformation of law, the economics of professional services, and what it takes to build a durable AI-native company in a regulated domain. More than 200 invited talks, keynotes and conference presentations since 2004, itemized in the CV: plenary keynotes for the American Bar Association, the International Fiscal Association and the Canadian Tax Foundation, a TEDx talk at MIT, and a NeurIPS paper. Speaking inquiries go to the address under Contact, above.

i.

The Legal Singularity

The thesis, the evidence, and what a profession built around prediction looks like in practice. Versioned for legal, academic, and generalist audiences.

ii.

Superjustice

When computation removes scarcity from the production of legal reasoning, what becomes possible that was not before. Based on the Oxford book.

iii.

Tax Administration in the AI Era

A prescriptive account for tax authorities, policymakers, and treasury officials: how AI can reduce administrative burden, improve compliance, and make tax law more legible to the people it governs. Available in a technical version on prediction and audit-grade reasoning.

iv.

Building Vertical AI

A decade of lessons from founding and scaling Blue J. Strategy, defensibility, content, talent, capital, and the shape of enterprise AI in professional services.

Selected venues
Universities and research institutes
  • Yale Law School
  • Stanford Law
  • Oxford
  • Cambridge
  • London School of Economics
  • University of Chicago
  • Columbia Law
  • NYU Law
  • Georgetown Law
  • Northwestern Law
  • McGill Law
  • National University of Singapore
  • University of Melbourne
  • Hebrew University
  • Max Planck Institute
  • University of Vienna
  • Vector Institute
Conferences and professional bodies
  • TEDx at MIT
  • NeurIPS
  • American Bar Association
  • International Bar Association
  • International Fiscal Association
  • Canadian Tax Foundation
  • National Judicial Institute

Upcoming

  • 17 Nov 2026 Stanford Law School CodeX Lunchtime Speakers · Superjustice: What AI in Tax Reveals About the Future of Law. 12:50–2:00 p.m. Pacific, Room 285, in person; open to the Stanford community, RSVP required.
  • 15 Apr 2027 Yale Law School Workshop · Superjustice in the Information Society Project’s lunchtime workshop series, New Haven, in person; time and room to be announced. With Samuel I. Becher.
  • 7 May 2027 National University of Singapore Workshop · Superjustice and the Future of Judicial Work, Faculty of Law, in person; time and room to be announced. With Samuel I. Becher.
  • 25–26 May 2027 University of Toronto Symposium · Two-day Superjustice symposium and public event, Faculty of Law, with commentators engaging critically with the book for the University of Toronto Law Journal: the papers of Beyond Superjustice. With Samuel I. Becher.
A selection of the next appearances is listed above. The complete schedule of Superjustice launch seminars and symposia through June 2027, which is the authoritative record for both authors, is at superjustice.com/events. The papers of Beyond Superjustice, discussed in Hong Kong and presented in Toronto, are described at superjustice.com/beyond-superjustice. Speaking inquiries go to the address under Contact, above.

Interviews, case studies & coverage

  • 10 Nov 2026 The Globe and Mail Report on Blue J’s Series E financing. Subscription
  • 10 Nov 2026 BetaKit Report on Blue J’s Series E financing: the round, the growth since the Series D, and the plans for agentic workflows and a UK office.
  • 22 Sep 2026 Schwartz Reisman Institute Institutional interview, in Q&A form: from legal scarcity to legal abundance. Superjustice, personalized law, what must stay human in a courtroom, where AI should and should not assist judges, and why he believes legal scholarship has tilted too far toward pessimism. Published by the University of Toronto institute where he is a faculty affiliate.
  • 4 Sep 2026 Future Ready Lawyer Podcast interview, season 2, episode 4: Superjustice, AI, abundant legal help, and the future of lawyers.
  • 27 Aug 2026 Explain to Shane Podcast interview: data-driven decisions in the courtroom.
  • 12 Aug 2026 The AmberMac Show · SiriusXM Radio and podcast interview: Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto and closing the justice gap.
  • 5 Aug 2026 Sarder TV Long-form video interview on the legal singularity, Superjustice, Blue J, AI readiness, professional accountability, and building an AI-native company.
  • 5 Aug 2026 Marketplace Tech Radio interview: AI-driven law as an answer to accessible legal help.
  • 24 Jul 2026 Law360 Pulse Article on the call for a new framework to govern legal AI. Subscription
  • Summer 2026 Yale Law Report Feature on Superjustice. PDF
  • 16 Jul 2026 Clearer Than Truth Podcast interview on Superjustice.
  • 14 Jul 2026 Tech Snippets Today Podcast interview: Superjustice or algorithmic tyranny.
  • 30 Jun 2026 Osler Founder interview: building and scaling Blue J. A conversation about product-market fit, investing in the team, and the changing work of tax professionals. A law firm’s interview with a client.
  • 13 Apr 2026 Oak HC/FT Investor interview: Blue J’s Ben Alarie on why AI is coming for tax. How the company builds domain-specific AI for tax and handles hallucination risk. Published by Oak HC/FT, an investor in Blue J.
  • 18 Nov 2025 VentureBeat Profile of Blue J’s pivot from predictive models to generative AI.
  • 21 Aug 2025 OpenAI Customer case study: Blue J's approach for scaling fast in complex, regulated domains. How Blue J combines tax expertise, authoritative sources, user feedback, and model evaluations. Published by OpenAI, a supplier to Blue J.
  • 3 Aug 2025 The Globe and Mail Report on Blue J’s Series D financing. Subscription
  • 22 Feb 2024 KPMG UK Alliance announcement: KPMG UK’s expanded alliance with Blue J for generative AI tax research. Published by KPMG UK, a Blue J partner.

The complete Superjustice coverage archive and press kit is at superjustice.com/media. In some listings he appears as Ben Alarie.

Reviews and responses

Independent reviews of the books and scholarly responses to the legal singularity thesis, as they appear; the responses to the 2016 thesis predate the 2023 book, whose fifth chapter answers them in two camps, reductionist (Pasquale, Hildebrandt, Cobbe, and Deakin and Markou) and rule of law (Weber). The reviewers are independent of the authors; the endorsements printed on the books are not listed here. Scholarly responses to Superjustice are planned, among them the Beyond Superjustice papers, discussed in Hong Kong and presented in Toronto in 2027.

  • 2026 SSRN The Legal SingularityChristopher Markou, “Engineered Autopoiesis: Why the Legal Singularity Is Not a Perfected Legal Order,” Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Working Paper No. 552, June 2026, and SSRN 6823198; School of Law, University of Nottingham; noted as Highly Recommended on Lawrence Solum’s Legal Theory Blog. Critical: argues that the legal singularity would substitute cybernetic control for law rather than perfect it.
  • 2026 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology The Legal SingularityMatthew Tse, “Considering the Concept of Law in the Legal Singularity,” (2026) 23(1) Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 117. A scholarly article rather than a review: places the legal singularity in classical legal thought, finding that it inherits some of that tradition’s shortcomings and that many critiques of it are overstated.
  • 2025 Canadian Law Library Review, republished at Slaw The Legal SingularityAllison Harrison. Favourable: a meticulously organized text with relevant examples, though the reviewer would have preferred a deeper analysis of fewer topics.
  • 2024 The Modern Law Review The Legal SingularityWilliam Lucy. Critical in part: examines the claim that law can reach functional completeness and finds the book light on technical detail about how prediction would deliver it. Subscription
  • 2024 Ottawa Law Review The Legal SingularityWolfgang Alschner, “Techno-Utopianism for Lawyers?,” (2023-2024) 55(2) Ottawa Law Review 187. Mixed: a hopeful and encouraging account that the reviewer says overstates what probabilistic algorithms can achieve, offering soft predictability where the thesis needs hard certainty. PDF
  • 2024 Saskatchewan Law Review The Legal SingularityCarla Fast, (2024) 87(1) Saskatchewan Law Review 114. Favourable: a chapter-by-chapter book note concluding that the book makes a strong case that integrating AI will be advantageous to the law, while still requiring practitioners’ active participation. Subscription
  • 2022 Journal of Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law The legal singularity thesisSimon Deakin and Christopher Markou, “Evolutionary Interpretation: Law and Machine Learning,” (2022) 1(2). Critical of prediction: argues that machine learning may illuminate long-run legal dynamics but is poorly suited to predicting individual case outcomes.
  • 2020 Michigan Technology Law Review The legal singularity thesisRobert F. Weber, “Will the ‘Legal Singularity’ Hollow Out Law's Normative Core?,” (2020) 27(1) Michigan Technology Law Review 97. Critical: argues that a perfectly predictable legal system would hollow out the rule of law’s normative core; the rule-of-law critique that the book’s fifth chapter answers. Open access.
  • 2020 Is Law Computable? Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence The legal singularity thesisSimon Deakin and Christopher Markou, “From Rule of Law to Legal Singularity,” the editors’ introduction to Is Law Computable? (Hart Publishing, 2020; 272 pp.; ISBN 9781509937066; foreword by Frank Pasquale). Critical: introduces an eleven-chapter volume on the thesis, arguing that computation would subordinate the rule of law to a rule of technology. Free on SSRN.
  • 2020 Is Law Computable? Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence The legal singularity thesisChristopher Markou and Simon Deakin, “Ex Machina Lex: Exploring the Limits of Legal Computability,” chapter 2 of Is Law Computable? (Hart Publishing, 2020). Critical: argues that a functionally complete legal system is a mirage, because law’s reflexivity resists computational replication. Free on SSRN.
  • 2020 Is Law Computable? Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence The legal singularity thesisJennifer Cobbe, “Legal Singularity and the Reflexivity of Law,” chapter 5 of Is Law Computable? (Hart Publishing, 2020). Critical: argues that, because law is reflexive, automating it would encode its designers’ priorities rather than deliver neutrality. Free on SSRN.
  • 2019 George Washington Law Review The legal singularity thesisFrank Pasquale, “A Rule of Persons, Not Machines: The Limits of Legal Automation,” (2019) 87(1) George Washington Law Review 1. Critical: argues that legal reasons must be given in language by a responsible person, which limits legal automation. Open access at BrooklynWorks.
  • 2018 University of Toronto Law Journal The legal singularity thesisFrank Pasquale and Glyn Cashwell, “Prediction, Persuasion, and the Jurisprudence of Behaviourism,” (2018) 68 (supplement 1) University of Toronto Law Journal 63. Critical: contrasts prediction with persuasion, arguing that a jurisprudence of predicted outcomes neglects the reason-giving core of law.
  • 2018 University of Toronto Law Journal The legal singularity thesisMireille Hildebrandt, “Law as Computation in the Era of Artificial Legal Intelligence: Speaking Law to the Power of Statistics,” (2018) 68 (supplement 1) University of Toronto Law Journal 12. Critical: argues that the thesis mistakes the mathematical simulation of legal judgment for legal judgment itself.

Each book’s own site owns its reviews record and this list mirrors them: legalsingularity.com for The Legal Singularity, superjustice.com/media for Superjustice.

Watch

Benjamin Alarie in conversation with Vaishali Jain on Sarder TV

Sarder TV · 5 August 2026Full interview with Vaishali Jain for Sarder Author Talks: from the 2016 paper to Superjustice, and what building Blue J has taught him. Show page ↗

TEDx at MIT: Transcending Books: What's Next for Law and Society

TEDx at MIT · 2018The 2018 talk, Transcending Books: What’s Next for Law and Society. On TED ↗

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