Newsletter · Est. 2025
Where law meets the algorithm — and neither comes out clean.
AI governance, constitutional questions, legal tech — when I write, you'll hear about it first.
Subscribe on Substack →AI has stopped generating text and started making decisions. The law has not caught up. This issue asks the obvious question nobody wants to answer: when an autonomous agent causes harm, who pays?
Pakistan's AI policy arrived with real ambition. This issue goes through what it actually commits to — and where the regulatory teeth are missing.
Algorithms are already influencing bail decisions, sentencing recommendations, and case predictions. The courtroom hasn't figured out what to do about it yet.
Surveillance infrastructure built for security keeps getting repurposed. This issue traces where privacy law has held — and where it hasn't.
The EU wants to regulate AI like a product. The US treats it like speech. Both approaches have a logic — and both have a blind spot.
I ran the four-fifths rule — an employment discrimination test — against judicial appointment data. The numbers raised questions I didn't expect.
Why I started this. What I think lawyers and technologists keep getting wrong about each other. And what this newsletter is actually trying to do.
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Subscribe →I'm Muhammad Hamid Naeem — an LL.B student and AI governance researcher. Digital Gavel is where I write about the legal questions that technology keeps generating faster than courts can answer them. Each issue picks one problem and takes it seriously: no hype, no hand-waving, just the actual argument.