ICAIL 09

The field of AI and Law is concerned with:

• the study of legal reasoning and argumentation using computational methods
• the study of AI and other informatics fields, using law as an example domain
• formal models of norms, normative systems, norm-governed societies
• legal and quasi-legal applications of AI and other advanced information technologies

ICAIL 2009 will be held under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), an organization devoted to promoting research and development in the field of AI and Law with members throughout the world. ICAIL provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and practical applications and stimulates interdisciplinary and international collaboration. Previous ICAIL conferences have been held biennially since 1987, with proceedings published by ACM.  

Topics of Interest

Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not restricted to:

  * Formal and computational models of legal reasoning, argumentation, decision making, and negotiation
  * Legal ontologies / representation of legal and related common sense knowledge
  * Evidential reasoning and its role in legal decision making
  * Modelling norms for multi-agent interaction, regulatory compliance, and electronic institutions
  * Modelling contracts and other legal speech acts for electronic agents
  * Knowledge discovery in legal databases
  * Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
  * Automated extraction of information from legal texts
  * Computer-assisted legal drafting and document management
  * Intelligent legal tutoring systems
  * Judicial support systems
  * Online dispute resolution
  * Legal XML models and semantic web applications
  * Legal aspects of multi-agent systems
  * Representation of quasi-legal norm-governed systems (e.g. e-commerce rules, organization rules and security regulations)

IMPORTANT DATES

Mentoring program request deadline: November 4, 2008
Mentoring program paper deadline: November 11, 2008
Workshop and tutorial proposals due: December 1, 2008
Submission of abstracts (optional): January 5, 2009
Submission of papers: January 11, 2009
Notification of acceptance: March 9, 2009
Camera-ready copies: April 10, 2009
Conference: June 8 – June 12, 2009