Faculty of Law Twilight Seminar:
How should lawyers and litigants check AI generated content? Rethinking verification in Australian courts
Presented by:
Dr Ezieddin Elmahjub
When: Monday, 2 November 2026
Time: 5pm - 6.30pm
Where: Faculty of Law (Building 4), Level 3, Room 3_41 - View on campus map
Closest Parking: General Car Park 2 - View on campus map
Open to the public and all are welcome!
What should lawyers and litigants check before relying on AI-generated content in court? Confirming that a cited case exists is only a beginning. The judgment may not support the proposition attributed to it, the quotation may omit a decisive qualification, or the authority may have been overtaken by later law.
The practical challenge is to determine which checks establish that a submission is legally sound and how those checks should be performed.
This seminar examines that challenge through Australian courts’ approaches to verification. It distinguishes the obligation to verify content from the methods used to discharge it, asking where those methods can accommodate differences in the task and the information available. A central question is what a court should be able to infer when a practitioner explains that AI-generated material has been checked. It proposes a framework connecting legally significant errors with the checks needed to detect them, alongside a research design for evaluating those checks. That evaluation would examine whether particular checks detect the relevant errors and what remains unresolved after those checks have been carried out. The aim is to give practical meaning to verification while identifying the evidence needed to justify changes in its method or intensity.
The seminar will commence at 5.30pm with light refreshments being offered from 5pm (vegan, gluten-free, and dairy-free options available).
Introducing Dr Ezieddin Elmahjub
Dr Ezieddin Elmahjub is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Bond University. His research examines how law should govern emerging technologies and how those technologies reshape legal reasoning, professional responsibility and access to justice. He specialises in AI governance, data ethics and intellectual property, combining legal and philosophical analysis with empirical evaluation of AI systems. He joined Bond in 2026 from Qatar University, where he was A/Professor of Law and Chair of the Centre for Law and Development. He has also served as Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program in Islamic Law. He holds a PhD and a Master’s from Queensland University of Technology and has held academic positions at Swinburne University, the University of New England and the National University of Singapore. His publications include a Cambridge University Press monograph and articles in Computer Law & Security Review, Springer’s Artificial Intelligence and Law, Philosophy & Technology, the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and IEEE publications. His current research develops benchmarks that test whether AI systems can retrieve legal authorities accurately and reason within particular jurisdictions.