The conference will be held ONLINE
The conference will feature a main track for technical papers, a demonstration track, workshops, tutorials, a doctoral consortium and best paper prizes.
Artificial Intelligence and Law is a vibrant research field that focuses on:
Since 1987, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) has been the foremost international conference addressing research in Artificial Intelligence and Law. It is organized biennially under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), and in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). The conference proceedings are published by ACM.
We invite submissions of papers, technology demonstrations, as well as proposals for workshops and tutorials.
March 01, 2021
April 12, 2021
June, 21-25, 2021
Details about the topics of relevance to the conference, and instructions for submitting papers are given below.
We invite submission of original papers on Artificial Intelligence & Law, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
ICAIL is keen to broaden its scope to include topics of growing importance. Therefore, we want to draw particular attention to three tracks:
Papers will be assessed in a rigorous reviewing procedure. Standard assessment criteria for research papers will apply to all submissions (relevance, originality, significance, technical quality, evaluation, presentation). Papers proposing formal or computational models should provide examples and/or simulations that show the models’ applicability to a realistic legal problem or domain. Papers on applications should describe clearly the underlying motivations, the techniques employed, and the current state of both implementation and evaluation. All papers should make clear their relation to prior work.
Papers (up to 10 pages inclusive of references) should present worked-out ideas on relevant topics. Papers on machine learning or data mining should include discussions of the data, methodology, results, and analysis of the results; it would be highly recommended that code (e.g., as Jupyter notebooks) and data be provided so as to foster reproducible results. Papers proposing formal or computational models should in addition provide examples and/or reproducible simulations. Papers on applications should describe the motivations, techniques, implementation, and evaluation; it would be highly recommended that code (e.g., as Jupyter notebooks) and data be provided so as to foster reproducible results. All papers should make clear their relation to legal information, reasoning, or processes as well as relation to prior work and novel scientific contribution.
Papers should not exceed the page limit in the approved style: the ACM sigconf template (for LaTeX) or the interim template layout.docx (for Word), both at http://www.acm.org/
All papers should be converted to PDF prior to electronic submission. Papers that do not adhere to these conditions will be rejected.
Submissions should be uploaded in the conference support system https://www.conftool.net/
Reviewing will be double blind. Papers submitted for review should not include names and affiliations of the authors, nor an acknowledgments section. These aspects can be added at the camera-ready stage. Therefore, prior to submission of the paper, the authors should first register the paper on the conference support system in order to receive an ID number for the paper. Then, in order to submit the paper, the paper should be revised so that the ID number of the paper replaces the names and affiliations of the authors. The references should include published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works of the authors, though care should be taken in the style of writing in order to preserve anonymity.
Deadline for demonstration submission: March 1, 2021
A session will be organized for the demonstration of creative, robust, and practical working applications and tools. Where a demonstration is not connected to a submitted paper, a two-page extended abstract about the system should be submitted for review, via the conference support system and following the instructions on paper submission. Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. For those demonstrations that are connected to a paper in the main track, no separate statement about the demonstration need be submitted, but the author(s) should send an email to the Program Chair by the demo submission deadline to register their interest in demonstrating their work at this session.
IAAIL has established three different awards, to be presented at the conference banquet.
The best paper award is given in memory of Carole Hafner, an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University. She was one of the founders of the ICAIL conference and a co-founding editor of the journal Artificial Intelligence and Law.
The best student paper award is in memory of Donald H. Berman, a professor of law at Northeastern University, who was a co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal. The award consists of a cash gift and free attendance at ICAIL 2021. For a paper to be considered for the award, the student author(s) should be clearly designated as such when the paper is submitted using the facility provided by the submission system, and any non-student co-authors should provide a statement by email to the Program Chair that affirms that the paper is primarily student work.
The best innovative application paper award is dedicated to the memory of Peter Jackson, Thomson Reuters’ Chief Research Scientist, who was a strong supporter of the ICAIL conferences and a significant contributor to the development of advanced technologies in AI and Law.
Coming soon
Adam Zachary Wyner
Swansea University, United Kingdom
a.z.wyner@swansea.ac.uk
Juliano Maranhão
University of São Paulo, Brazil
julianomaranhao@usp.br
Michał Araszkiewic
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
michal.araszkiewicz@
The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2021) will be held at University of Sao Paulo from Monday, June 21 to Friday, June 25. The main Call for Papers can be found at: http://icail.lawgorithm.com.br/calls.
The ICAIL 2021 Tutorials and Workshops complement the main track of the conference and offer an opportunity to present late-breaking research on AI and Law results, on-going research projects, and innovative work in progress. Tutorials and Workshops aim to encourage presenters and participants to engage in research discussions; such discussions can be valuable inputs for the future work of the presenters while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends, and to network with other researchers.
ICAIL 2021 plans to run workshops and tutorials on either Monday, June 21 and Friday, June 25. Proposals for workshops and tutorials are invited.
14 December 2020
June 21 to June 25, 2021
ICAIL 2021 will include workshops and tutorials on Monday, June 21 and Friday, June 25. Tutorials should cover a broad topic of relevance to the AI and Law community and should have one or more designated organizers/speakers. A workshop is intended for informal discussion, and it should have one or more designated organizers and a program or organizing committee. Proposals should contain enough information to permit evaluation on the basis of importance, quality, and community interest. Proposals should be 2 to 4 pages and include at least the following information:
All tutorial and workshop proposals will be reviewed and selected based on relevance to the AI and Law field, potential significance, and clarity.
At least one of the organizers must be a registered participant at the conference, and be responsible for the tutorial/workshop corresponding session. ICAIL 2021 reserves the right to cancel workshops or tutorials that fail to reach a minimum number of registered participants.
The submission deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals is December 14, 2020. Questions should be directed to Adam Zachary Wyner, Program Chair (a.z.wyner@swansea.ac.uk).
The International Association of Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL) is offering a mentoring programme for papers being submitted to its biennial ICAIL conference, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law. The programme is intended primarily for junior authors who have not previously published an Artificial Intelligence and Law paper at a conference or in a journal. If you would like help with your submission, you may ask for a mentor ― a person who will help you with your submission to the IAAIL audience through one-on-one advising, usually via e-mail and Skype. A mentor can also familiarize you with the standards and deadlines of ICAIL submissions. Mentors are volunteers familiar with successful submissions. To request a mentor, please send email by the Mentoring Programme Request Deadline to the organiser: Michał Araszkiewicz (michal.araszkiewicz@uj.edu.pl).
Please include:
A mentor may be able to advise you about the most appropriate forum for your work, suggest improvements to your submission, suggest how to deal with language problems, or refer you to relevant research of which you might not have been aware. Typically, a mentor might spend 3—7 hours on a submission.
Note the following:
Monday, November 9, 2020
Send notice to Michał Araszkiewicz, michal.araszkiewicz@uj.edu.pl
Shortly after mentor assignment
Michał Araszkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
The ICAIL 2021 Doctoral Consortium aims at promoting the exchange of ideas from PhD reseachers in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Law, and to provide them an opportunity to interact and receive feedback from leading scholars and experts in the field. Specifically, the Consortium seeks to provide opportunities for PhD students to:
To be eligible for the Consortium, a candidate must be a current doctoral student within a recognised university. Ideally, the candidate should have at least 8—12 months of work remaining before expected completion. The participants of the Doctoral Consortium must register for and attend the main conference. The PhD student should be the sole author of the submission. Note that submissions to the Doctoral Consortium are entirely separate from any papers that students may have submitted to the main conference.
The accepted thesis descriptions or research descriptions will be presented to an interested audience and subject to discussion during the ICAIL 2021 conference. We expect submissions addressing any topic related to the AI & Law discipline, including the topics listed in the call for papers for the main conference, which include but are not limited to:
Students are invited to submit an original description of their work addressing the following aspects:
Thesis descriptions or research outcomes are limited to 10 pages in English using LNCS format and submitted electronically in PDF format jointly with a maximum 3 page CV. Please submit to https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=icail2021dc
Submissions will be assessed by members from the AI and Law community who will consider how well the submissions address each of the aspects given above. We intend to invite the presenting authors to co-author a paper covering the topics of the accepted DC submissions in the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal.
April 26, 2021
May 24, 2021
June 7, 2021
June 21 to June 25, 2021
The Best Paper of ICAIL 2021 Doctoral Consortium Award will be assigned to the most original, innovative and well presented research.
Michał Araszkiewicz
Jagiellonian University, Poland
Adam Zachary Wyner
Swansea University, United Kingdom
Coming soon
Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment (COLIEE) 2021, in association with the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) 2021
Webpage: http://www.ualberta.ca/~rabelo/COLIEE2021/
As an associated event of ICAIL 2021, we are happy to announce the 9th Competition on Legal Information Extraction and Entailment (COLIEE-2021), which will include tasks on both statute law and case law.
Four tasks are included in the 2021 edition: Tasks 1 and 2 are about case law, and tasks 3, 4 and 5(new task) are on statute law. Task 1 is a legal case retrieval task, and it involves reading a new case Q, and extracting supporting cases S1, S2…, Sn from the provided case law corpus, to support the decision for Q. Task 2 is the legal case entailment task, which involves the identification of one or more paragraphs from an existing case that entail the decision of a new case. As in previous COLIEE competitions, Task 3 is to consider a yes/no legal question Q and retrieve relevant statutes from a database of Japanese civil code statutes; Task 4 is to confirm entailment of a yes/no answer from the retrieved civil code statutes. Task 5 is to answer a yes/no question without the retrieved civil code statues.
Further details can be found in the following URL: http://www.ualberta.ca/~rabelo/COLIEE2021/
The datasets for Task 1 and Task 2 are in English, and the datasets for Task 3, Task 4 and Task 5 are available both in Japanese and English (translation from Japanese bar exams and civil code). You can choose any (or both) language datasets and any task for participation.
The intention is to build a community of practice regarding legal information processing and textual entailment, so that the adoption and adaptation of general methods from a variety of fields is considered, and that participants share their approaches, problems, and results.
We require participants to submit a paper on their method and experimental results to ICAIL 2021 in accordance with the instructions specified athttps://icail.lawgorithm.com.br and to present the paper at the COLIEE workshop in ICAIL 2021 (held online).
Accepted papers will be published at an EPiC Series in Computing. The papers authored by the competition winners will be included in the main ICAIL 2021 proceedings if COLIEE organizers admit the paper novelty after the review process.
31 Jan, 2021 Training data release
08 Feb, 2021 Test data release
15 Mar, 2021 Submission deadline of competition test runs for task 3
19 Mar, 2021 Submission deadline of competition test runs for task 5
22 Mar, 2021 Return of competition test run rankings/assessments for task 3 and announcements of answers (relevant article(s) for each question) for task 4
29 Mar, 2021 Submission deadline of competition test runs for task 1 and 2
29 Mar, 2021 Submission deadline of competition test runs for task 4 using the above answers for the same test of bar exam questions
03 Apr, 2021 Announcements of rankings/ assessments for tasks 1, 2, 4 and 5
12 Apr, 2021 Paper submission deadline for the COLIEE workshop
26 Apr, 2021 Notification for the COLIEE workshop paper
10 May, 2021 Camera-ready copy deadline
21-25 Jun, 2021 ICAIL 2021 (one day for the COLIEE workshop)
Potential participants to COLLIE-2021 should respond to this call for participation by submitting an application. To apply, submit the application and memorandums of the following URL to rabelo(at)ualberta.ca .
http://www.ualberta.ca/~rabelo/COLIEE2021/application.pdf
Memorandum for Tasks 1 and/or 2 (Case law competition) http://www.ualberta.ca/~rabelo/COLIEE2021/CL_memorandum.pdf
Memorandum for Tasks 3 and/or 4 and/or 5 (Statute law competition, English Data) http://www.ualberta.ca/~rabelo/COLIEE2021/SL_EN_memorandum.pdf
Memorandum for Tasks 3 and/or 4 and/or 5 (Statute law competition, Japanese Data) http://www.ualberta.ca/~rabelo/COLIEE2021/SL_JA_memorandum.pdf
An acknowledgement note will be sent to the email address supplied in the form once the form has been processed.
Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta, Canada Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada Juliano Rabelo, University of Alberta, Canada Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Questions and further information:
rabelo(at)ualberta.ca