CLARS Visiting Scholar Seminar: Dr Joshua Yuvaraj
Dr Joshua Yuvaraj (University of Auckland) presents at a CLARS seminar.
Artificial intelligence promises much in the administration of the law, for lawyers, judges, and legislators. Is this promise real or illusory? In this seminar, Dr Joshua Yuvaraj (Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Auckland) examined the phenomenon of automating the administration of law from consequentialist and deontological grounds. He first presented the verification-value paradox, a framework for evaluating the efficiency gains promised by generative and agentic AI tools for legal practice grounded in AI’s structural features and the obligations of lawyers. He then builded on this consequentialist critique to develop a broader theory: that the administration of the law is an exercise of cognitive relationality which cannot be supplanted by automation, despite rapid and projected advances. He concluded with implications for the legal profession, the judiciary and Parliament considering integrating AI tools into their workflows.
This presentation was built upon Dr Yuvaraj’s forthcoming Monash University Law Review paper, ’The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI Use in Legal Practice’ (vol 52, 2026), available now on SSRN and ArXiv.
Event Details
When: Thursday 11 December, 2025
Time: 4:30 - 6pm
Venue: Boardroom, Monash Law Chambers
Level 1, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Keynote Speaker
Dr Joshua Yuvaraj
Joshua is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School. He has a PhD and a BA/LLB (Hons) from Monash University, where he won the 2021 Mollie Holman Medal for best Law thesis.
