Assistant Professor

Jackman Law Building
Room J364
78 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5

Tel.: 416-978-4150
Email: a.aidid@utoronto.ca

Abdi Aidid researches and teaches in the areas of civil procedure, access to justice, and law & technology. 

Professor Aidid received his B.A. from the University of Toronto, his J.D. from Yale Law School and his LL.M from the Faculty of Law. He previously practiced litigation and arbitration at Covington & Burling LLP in New York City and most recently served as the VP, Legal Research at Blue J, where he oversaw the development of machine learning-enabled research and analytics tools. 

Professor Aidid is the co-author of The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better, which received the PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers and was a finalist for The Donner Prize. His next book, a project about access to justice and emerging technologies, is under contract with the University of Toronto Press and slated for release in 2026.

Professor Aidid is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at Yale Law School. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Centre for Ethics and the Future of Law Lab, where he contributes to interdisciplinary research about law and artificial intelligence. 

Education
LL.M, University of Toronto
J.D., Yale Law School
B.A., University of Toronto
Academic appointments
Visiting Associate Professor, Yale Law School (2024-2025)
Selected publications

"Harmless AI Error" University of Pittsburgh Law Review (forthcoming, 2025)

"Lessons from the Failure of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act," New England Journal of Medicine AI (with Abdullah Ishaque and Gelareh Zadeh) (forthcoming, 2025)

"Rethinking Appeals in Arbitration" Penn State Dickinson Law Review (forthcoming, 2025)

"Generative AI and the Myth of Creativity" Cardozo A.E. Law Journal (forthcoming, 2025)

"Using Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Modeling in Dispute Resolution" in Evidence in Family Law Handbook (forthcoming 2025)

"Accessing Gender Justice" Journal of Law and Equality (2025)

"Ethical Lawyering and Existential Threats" in Law in a Changing World: The Climate Crisis (B. Cossman & J. Brunnée eds., Univ. of Toronto Press, 2025) 

"Reconsidering Litigation Delay," in Research Handbook on Law and Time (Frank Fagan & Saul Levmore eds., Elgar, 2025) (with Anthony Niblett) 

"Juridification and Regulating the Modern Lawyer" Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics (2024) 

"Towards an Ethical Human-Computer Division of Labor in Law Practice" Fordham Law Review (2024) 

"Access to Justice and Civil-Procedural Bargaining" University of Toronto Law Journal (2023)

The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better (University of Toronto Press, 2023) 

"Predicting Economic Substance Cases Using Machine Learning" Journal of Tax Practice and Procedure (2021) 

Twitter
@AbdiAidid