Since 2019

Law and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Faculty of Law · Universidad Panamericana · Mexico City Campus

Critical examination of the intersection between law and artificial intelligence with academic rigor.

About the Laboratory

Computer Sciences Applied to Law

The Law and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory employs computer sciences to develop projects that help solve a wide range of problems in legal practice.

It critically analyzes the trends and new practices generated by the digitalization of law.

It contributes to the digital literacy of lawyers so that they can take balanced advantage of the benefits, and identify the drawbacks, at the intersection of law and artificial intelligence.

Its objectives focus on the study of computer sciences applied to law in order to improve its effectiveness, open its access to people with minimal legal knowledge, and facilitate the work of legal professionals.

The Laboratory partakes of the conviction that the infinite number of problematic situations that arise in legal dilemmas, as well as the complexity of legal reasoning itself, question the viability of total employment of artificial intelligence in the legal context and raise important doubts about the possibility of an automated solution for each case.

Research Areas

Five Pillars of Activity

01

Scientific Publications

Original research published in indexed journals and international conferences on causal AI, legal language processing, and technology regulation.

02

Legal Informatics Tools

Development of prototypes and computational tools to assist legal reasoning, including legal chatbots and risk assessment models.

03

Scientific Dissemination

Conferences, roundtables, podcasts, and general-audience publications that bring AI and law research findings to the legal community and the interested public.

04

Undergraduate Education

Seminars taught in the Law undergraduate program at the Faculty of Law, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City campus.

05

Postgraduate Training

Participation in various graduate programs, training researchers and professionals with critical capacity regarding emerging technologies in the legal field.

Publications

Academic Output

2025 5 publications ▸

  1. Prince Tritto, P., & Torres Ortega, I. C.

    Jurists of the gaps: Large language models and the quiet erosion of legal authority

    Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology, 19(2), 179–204

  2. Prince Tritto, P., & Ponce, H.

    Assessing AI-generated legal reasoning: A benchmark for legal text quality from literature review

    Mexican Congress on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 54–68). Springer Nature Switzerland

  3. Prince Tritto, P.

    Análisis teórico de los sistemas de e-justicia en Estados Unidos, Europa y China

    In S. López Noriega (Coord.), La e-justicia en el Poder Judicial de la Federación (pp. 23-102). Tirant lo Blanch

  4. Prince Tritto, P.

    El desarrollo e implementación del sistema de e-justicia: Un análisis cualitativo desde México, Estados Unidos y Europa

    In S. López Noriega (Coord.), La e-justicia en el Poder Judicial de la Federación (pp. 103-174). Tirant lo Blanch

  5. Prince Tritto, P., & Ponce, H.

    Causal artificial intelligence in legal language processing: A systematic review

    Entropy, 27(4), 351

2024 3 publications ▸

  1. Prince Tritto, P.

    Inteligencia Artificial: Juego de Funámbulo entre Incertidumbre e Inflación Reglamentaria

    In El futuro de la regulación en la era digital. Temas selectos (pp. 137-196). Tirant Lo Blanch

  2. Prince Tritto, P., & Ponce, H.

    Exploring the Challenges and Limitations of Unsupervised Machine Learning Approaches in Legal Concepts Discovery

    MICAI 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14392. Springer, Cham

  3. Prince Tritto, P., & Ponce, H.

    Self-Supervised Learning with Legal-Related Corpus: Customizing a Language Model with Synthetic Data

    Research in Computing Science, vol 152: 99-116. Center for Computing Research of IPN

2023 1 publication ▸

  1. Prince Tritto, P., & Sánchez, S.

    Artificial Intelligence in Mexico: Legal Mapping to Guide the Conquest

    In Castets-Renard, C. & Eynard, J. (Ed.), Artificial Intelligence Law (pp. 849-885). Bruylant, Brussels

2022 1 publication ▸

  1. Prince Tritto, P.

    Colaboración interdisciplinaria para el Derecho y la Inteligencia Artificial: el reto lingüístico

    Empresa, Economía y Derecho. Vol. 51 Conocimiento Contemporáneo (pp. 281-296). Dykinson

2021 3 publications ▸

  1. Prince Tritto, P., & Ramírez García, H. S.

    Derecho Asistido por Ordenador. Oportunidades y Retos para la Praxis Jurídica

    Sociedad Tecnológica y Futuro Humano. Vol. 3 (pp. 79–93). Tirant Lo Blanch

  2. Díez Spelz, J. F.

    ¿Robots con derechos?: la frontera entre lo humano y lo no-humano. Reflexiones desde la teoría de los derechos humanos

    Revista Ius, 15(48), 259-287

  3. Prince Tritto, P.

    La clasificación del Lenguaje Jurídico: Barrera de Entrada de la Inteligencia Artificial en el Campo del Derecho

    Economía, Empresa y Justicia. Vol. 8 Conocimiento Contemporáneo (pp. 411–429). Dykinson

2019 1 publication ▸

  1. Prince Tritto, P.

    IA y Derecho: Hacia un Transhumanismo Jurídico

    Informática y Derecho, Revista Iberoamericana de Derecho Informático (segunda época). Ratio Legis

Activities

LabDerIA Forum

Seminars

Seminars taught in the Law undergraduate program and in various graduate programs at the Faculty of Law, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City campus.

Conferences and Roundtables

Academic conferences and roundtables where novel knowledge and ideas are shared and discussed on the most recent issues regarding the relationship between artificial intelligence and law.

Featured Program

Diploma in Cyberjustice

A continuing education program for legal professionals interested in understanding the impact of digital technologies and artificial intelligence on legal practice. It combines theoretical foundations with practical applications in a hybrid format (in-person and virtual).

108 hours
27 weeks
Hybrid
Max. 30 participants

Direction

Philippe Prince Tritto
Philippe Prince Tritto Academic Design
Marcelo García Ramírez
Marcelo García Ramírez Coordinator
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Team

Founders

Philippe Prince Tritto

Philippe Prince Tritto

Co-founder

Teaching researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Law with 13 years of experience at the intersection of technology and regulation. Trained in Industrial Computing (Troyes), Law (Lyon 3), and Digital Law (Toulouse 1 Capitole), he is consulted by international public bodies and Big Tech companies on AI regulation and ethics. He has led projects on legal chatbots, neural networks for risk assessment, AI-generated contracts, and automatic detection of legal concepts. PhD candidate in causal AI, he co-founded the Laboratory in 2019.

His academic research and teaching practice critically examine the impact of AI on legal reasoning, human autonomy, and regulatory frameworks, integrating values such as freedom of thought, diversity, and environmental protection as fundamental comparative axes in legal analysis.

Research topics

Causal AI and its application to Law · Automated legal reasoning · International AI regulation · LegalTech and legal practice transformation · Technology governance and fundamental rights

Hugo Saúl Ramírez García

Hugo Saúl Ramírez García

Co-founder

Law degree from the Faculty of Law, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Doctor of Law from the Universitat de València (Cum Laude by unanimous decision). Full Research Professor (Titular D) at the Faculty of Law, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City campus. National Researcher Level III (SNII). Director of the Panamerican Institute of Jurisprudence.

Visiting professor in the Master's Program in Human Rights, Peace and Sustainable Development at the Universitat de València.

Research topics

Human rights · Bioethics · Philosophy of law · Environmental law

Collaboration Network

Allies

Juan Francisco Díez Spelz

Juan Francisco Díez Spelz

Jurist and scholar specialized in philosophy of law and human rights. Doctor of Law from Universidad Panamericana, with a Master's in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex. Associate Research Professor (Titular B) at the UP Faculty of Law, member of SNII Level I. His research addresses responsible business conduct, ESG criteria, and the legal challenges of artificial intelligence.

Research topics

Philosophy of Law · Human Rights · Legal Logic and Argumentation · Business and ESG Criteria · Artificial Intelligence

María de Lourdes Martínez Villaseñor

María de Lourdes Martínez Villaseñor

PhD in Computer Science from Tecnológico de Monterrey. Full Research Professor (Level D) at Universidad Panamericana and Academic Director of the Master's in Data Science. Member of SNII Level I. Winner of the Women Leader in Responsible AI in North America 2023 award and the Trailblazer Award – Woman in AI of the Year North America 2025. Author of over 65 international publications in artificial intelligence.

Research topics

Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning and Health · AI Ethics

Hiram Ponce

Hiram Ponce

PhD in Computer Science from Tecnológico de Monterrey. Full Research Professor (Titular D) at the UP Faculty of Engineering. Member of SNII Level I, winner of the National Award for Best Doctoral Thesis in AI (2014) and the Google Research Award (2017). President of the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence, Regular Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Center for Innovation and Technological Development (CINOV UP). Author of over 120 publications and 4 books.

Research topics

Mechatronics · Robotics · Artificial Intelligence

Ernesto Ibarra Sánchez

Ernesto Ibarra Sánchez

Attorney and Master of Law from UNAM, with advanced studies in Legal Sciences (Master's) and Law (Doctorate) at Universidad Panamericana. He is Vice President of FIADI; founder and President of AMCID, founder and Director of AiCyberLaw, co-founder and Coordinator of Alianza México CiberSeguro, and ally and Co-leader of the "Cybersecurity and Risk Management" Working Group at ANIA in Mexico. He is a professor at the School of Government and Economics at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City.

Research topics

Digital Law · Cybersecurity and Cybercrime · Digital Business · Legaltech and Legal Innovation · Law and AI · Digital Justice · Digital Government

María Paz Lleras Gasca

María Paz Lleras Gasca

Law student at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City campus, currently in her fourth semester. Her academic focus is on contemporary legal analysis and the challenges that technological innovation poses for legal systems, with particular interest in the international protection of human rights. She is fluent in Spanish, English, and German.

Academic areas of interest

Human Rights · International Law · Criminal Law · Family Law · Law and Technology

Montserrat Aguilar Chías

Montserrat Aguilar Chías

Law student at Universidad Panamericana (Mexico City), currently in her fourth semester. She is interested in digital law, human rights, gender perspective, and environmental law. She has participated in research and information analysis projects. She is trilingual (Spanish, English, and German) and has knowledge of Mexican Sign Language.

Academic areas of interest

Human Rights · Law and Technology · Gender Perspective · Environmental Law · Animal Law

Research Interns

Interns

Contact

Contact Information

Email
Universidad Panamericana, Faculty of Law Mexico City Campus Augusto Rodin 498, Insurgentes Mixcoac, Benito Juárez, 03920 Mexico City