IAAIL is a nonprofit association devoted to promoting research and development in the field of AI and Law, with members throughout the world.
IAAIL organizes a biennial conference (ICAIL), which provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and practical applications and stimulates interdisciplinary and international collaboration.
- Formal models of legal reasoning
- Computational models of argumentation and decision making
- Computational models of evidential reasoning
- Legal reasoning in multi-agent systems
- Executable models of legislation
- Automatic legal text classification and summarization
- Automated information extraction from legal databases and texts
- Machine learning and data mining for e-discovery and other legal applications
- Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_and_law
AI and Law: A fruitful synergy
Edwina L. Risslanda
Department of Computer Science. University of Massachusetts at Amhent. Amhent. MA 01003, USAKevin D. Ashleyb
Graduate Program in lntelligelll Systems and School of Law. University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. PA 15260. USAR. P. Louic
Department of Computer Science. Washington University. St. Louis. MO 63/30. USA
AI and Law is a classic field for AI research: it poses difficult and interesting problems for AI, and its projects inform both AI and its focal domain, the law itself. This special issue repotts on a range of projects, from those where the law mot ivates fundamental research and whose results reach beyond the legal domain, to those that partake of the benefits of techniques and wisdom from AI as a whole. For instance, projects tackling legal argument have not only created programs that produce legal arguments but also led to insights and ad vances in the logic of argumentation. Projects with an applications bent have often provided insights about the limitations and nuances of existing techniques, and have served as the catal ysts for devel oping new approaches. For instance, harnessing models of legal argument to teach l aw students how to argue has led to refi nements to and extensions of the models. There is a synergy not only bet ween law and AI, but also between AI and AI and Law. In fact, the work on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) done in the AI and Law communit y provided one of the most important streams of results that contributed to the birth of that area in the mid-1980s. Currently, work on legal argumentation is having a similar impact on the international non-standard l ogic and argumentati on communities.
AI and Law is much more than an applications area. Its concerns much upon issues at the very heart of AI: reasoning, representation, and learning. For the AI researcher interested in symbolic methods – or methods of whatever stripe – that are focused on providing explanations and justifications, AI and Law is an excellent arena. No matter how a reasoner arrives at a legal answer it must be explained , justified, compared to and contrasted with alternatives. For the researcher interested in topics like negotiation, decision-making, e-commerce, natural language, information retrieval and extraction, and data mining, AI and Law is a rich source of problems and inspiration.
Executive Committee
Adam Wyner
President
Associate Professor in Law and Computer Science, and the programme leader on the LLM in LegalTech at Swansea University. He was ICAIL 2021 Program Chair.
Jaromir Savelka
Vice-President
I am a researcher associate in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. I am interested in the intersection of natural language processing and society.
Michal Araszkiewicz
Secretary-Treasurer
Michal Araszkiewicz is assistant professor at Department of Legal Theory at Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Francisco Andrade
Member-at-large
Associate Professor at University of Minho School of Law. PhD in Private Legal Sciences, in 2009, at University of Minho.
Masaharu Yoshioka
Member-at-large
Masaharu Yoshioka is a legal scholar and researcher affiliated with Hokkaido University’s Faculty of Information Science and Technology in Sapporo, Japan, where he contributes to interdisciplinary work at the intersection of law, artificial intelligence, and information systems.
Daniel W. Linna Jr.
Member
Daniel W. Linna Jr. has a joint appointment at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and McCormick School of Engineering as the Director of Law and Technology Initiatives and a Senior Lecturer.
Giuseppe Contissa
Member
Giuseppe Contissa is professor in Legal Informatics and Information Technology and Law at the University of Bologna, Department of Legal Studies.
Anne Gardner
Honorary Member
Anne Gardner is a lawyer and a computer scientist. She obtained both her law degree and her Ph.D. from Stanford. She has played the role of pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) techniques applied to perform legal tasks.