Biography

Benjamin Leider serves as the Innovation Fellow at the William S. Richardson School of Law, where he advises the Dean on emerging developments in legal technology and artificial intelligence. In this role, he develops technology-based initiatives to connect students with the legal community and collaborates with faculty, courts, law firms, and the Hawaiʻi State Bar Association on legal technology projects.

A 2025 summa cum laude graduate of Richardson School of Law and member of the University of Hawaiʻi Law Review, Benjamin was named a Law Student of the Year by the National Jurist. During law school, he developed innovative legal technology solutions including an AI-powered natural language interface for analyzing Honolulu Police Department arrest data and two multi-agent AI orchestration systems: one for simulating legal document workflows and another for simulating traffic court hearings under Hawaiʻi law. His work has practical applications ranging from validating the existence of cited sources and assessing how faithfully they are characterized to helping public defenders determine expungement eligibility.

Benjamin holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine, where his dissertation examined the nature of regret, trust, and punishment. This interdisciplinary background and his enthusiasm for technology and generative AI applications together inform his perspective on the promise and the ethical implications of technology in legal practice and education.