Imagine if civil court cases were decided by artificial intelligence instead of human judges. Some legal professionals say that prospect could become reality in the not-too-distant future.

Members of the UCLA School of Law community are mourning the loss of longtime professor Stephen Munzer, who died on Nov. 30 at age 81 after a brief illness.

Munzer was a distinguished research professor and authority in law and philosophy who joined the law school’s faculty in 1982 and retired in 2014 – but hardly stopped writing, teaching, conducting research, and connecting with his colleagues. Many people among his family, coworkers, and former students have used the same word to describe him: “gentleman.”