Full Papers

• Precedential Constraint: The Role of Issues
  Trevor Bench-Capon and Katie Atkinson
• Context-Aware Legal Citation Recommendation using Deep Learning
• Zihan Huang, Charles Low, Mengqiu Teng, Hongyi Zhang, Daniel E. Ho, Mark Krass and Matthias Grabmair
• Lex Rosetta: Transfer of Predictive Models Across Languages, Jurisdictions, and Legal Domains
  Jaromir Savelka, Hannes Westermann, Karim Benyekhlef, Charlotte S. Alexander, Jayla C. Grant, David Restrepo Amariles, Rajaa El-Hamdani, Sebastien Meeus, Aurore Troussel, Michal Araszkiewicz, Kevin D. Ashley, Alexandra Ashley, Karl L. Branting, Mattia Falduti, Matthias Grabmair, Jakub Harasta, Tereza Novotna, Elizabeth Tippett and Shiwanni Johnson
• Hardness of Case-Based Decisions: a Formal Theory
  Heng Zheng, Davide Grossi and Bart Verheij
• Evaluating Document Representations for Content-based Legal Literature Recommendations
  Malte Ostendorff, Elliott Ash, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp, Julian Moreno-Schneider and Georg Rehm
• On Semantics-based Minimal Revision for Legal Reasoning
  Wachara Fungwacharakorn, Kanae Tsushima and Ken Satoh
• A dynamic model for balancing values
  Juliano Maranhao, Edelcio Souza and Giovanni Sartor
• Unravel Legal References in Defeasible Deontic Logic
  Guido Governatori and Francesco Olivieri
• A Combined Rule-Based and Machine Learning Approach for Automated GDPR Compliance Checking
  Rajaa El Hamdani, Majd Mustapha, David Restrepo Amariles, Aurore Troussel, Sébastien Meeus and Katsiaryna Krasnashchok
• Translating Copyright Legislation into Machine-Readable Code: Interpretation, Coding Validation and Legal Alignment
  Alice Witt, Anna Huggins, Guido Governatori and Joshua Buckley
• Structural Text Segmentation of Legal Documents
  Dennis Aumiller, Satya Almasian, Sebastian Lackner and Michael Gertz
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence, lawyer’s perspective
  Łukasz Górski and Shashishekar Ramakrishna
• When Does Pretraining Help? Assessing Self-Supervised Learning for Law and the Case HOLD Dataset of 53,000+ Legal Holdings
  Neel Guha, Lucia Zheng, Brandon Ray Anderson, Peter Henderson and Daniel En-Wenn Ho
• Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Documents
  Bhattacharya, Paheli; Poddar, Soham; Rudra, Koustav; Ghosh, Kripabandhu; Ghosh, Saptarshi
• AI systems and product liability
  Borges, Georg
• From Data to Information: Automating Data Science to Explore the U.S. Court System
  Paley, Andrew; Li Zhao, Andong L.; Pack, Harper; Servantez, Sergio; Adler, Rachel F.; Sterbentz, Marko; Pah, Adam;
  Schwartz, David; Barrie, Cameron; Einarsson, Alexander; Hammond, Kristian
• Case-level Prediction of Motion Outcomes in Civil Litigation
  Devin J. McConnell, James Zhu, Sachin S. Pandya and Derek Cole Aguiar

Short Papers

• Discovering the Rationale of Decisions: Experiments on Aligning Learning and Reasoning
  Cornelis Cor Steging, Silja Renooij and Bart Verheij
• Plum2Text: A French Plumitifs –Descriptions Data-to-Text Dataset for Natural Language Generation
  Nicolas Garneau, Eve Gaumond, Luc Lamontagne and Pierre-Luc Déziel
• Process Mining-Enabled Jurimetrics: Analysis of a Brazilian Court’s Judicial Performance in the Business Law Processing
  Adriana Jacoto Unger, Jose Francisco dos Santos Neto, Julio Trecenti, Renata Hirota, Marcelo Fantinato and Sarajane Marques Peres
• Compliance checking in reified I/O logic via SHACL
  Livio Robaldo
• On the relevance of algorithmic decision predictors for judicial decision making
  Floris Bex and Henry Prakken
• Automatic Extraction of Amendments from Polish Statutory Law
  Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl, Mateusz Piech, Zbigniew Kaleta and Krzysztof Wróbel
• Enhancing a Recidivism Prediction Tool With Machine Learning: Effectiveness and Algorithmic Fairness
  Marzieh Karimi-Haghighi and Carlos Castillo
• The use of AI technology in the Public Justice System
  Fernando Esteban de la Rosa and John Zeleznikow
• The Burden of Persuasion in Structured Argumentation
  Roberta Calegari, Regis Riveret and Giovanni Sartor
• Anonymization of German Legal Court Rulings
  Ingo Glaser, Tom Schamberger and Florian Matthes
• Modelling Legal Procedures
  Antonino Rotolo and Clara Smith
• Regulating Artificial Intelligence: A Technology Regulator’s Perspective
  Joshua Ellul, Stephen McCarthy, Trevor Sammut, Juanita Brockdorff, Matthew  Scerri and Gordon J. Pace
• Legal Question Answering on Private International Law
  Francesco Sovrano, Monica Palmirani, Biagio Distefano, Salvatore Sapienza and Fabio Vitali
• From Formal Models to Implemented Tools: The ECHR as a Case Study
  Katie Atkinson, Joe Collenette, Trevor Bench-Capon and Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou
• Prediction of monetary penalties for data protection caseinvestigations in multiple languages
  Aaron William Karl Ceross and Tingting Zhu
• Toward Summarizing Case Decisions via Extracting Argument Issues, Reasons, and Conclusions
  Huihui Xu, Jaromir Savelka and Kevin Ashley
• Using Transformers to Improve Answer Retrieval for Legal Questions
  Andrew Vold and Jack G. Conrad

Extended Abstract

• CriminelBART: A French Canadian Legal Language Model Specialized in Criminal Law
  Nicolas Garneau,  Eve Gaumond,  Luc Lamontagne and Pierre-Luc Déziel
• Predicting Legal Proceedings Status: Approaches Based on Sequential Text Data
  Felipe Maia Polo, Itamar Ciochetti, Emerson Bertolo
• A simple mathematical model for the legal concept of balancing of interests
  Frederike Zufall, Rampei Kimura and Linyu Peng
• Sentence Classification for Contract Law Cases: A Natural Language Processing Approach
  Wai Yin Mok, Jonathan R. Mok and Rachel V. Mok
• Applying Decision Tree Analysis to Family Court Decisions: Factors Determining Child Custody in Taiwan
  Sieh-Chuen Huang, Hsuan-Lei Shao and Robert B Leflar
• Pre-trained transformers may handle legal judgment prediction tasks, but not the way legal practitioners would expect
  Olivier Salaün and Philippe Langlais
• Constraint Answer Set Programming as a Tool to Improve Legislative Drafting: A Rules as Code Experiment
  Jason Patrick Morris
• Pathways to Legal Dynamics in Robotics
  Antonino Rotolo, Luciano H. Tamargo and Diego C. Martìnez

Demo Papers

• Live Demonstration of a Working Collaborative e-Negotiaton System (Smartsettle Infiinity)
  Graham Laurence Ross and Ernest Thiessen
• Interactive System for Arranging Issues based on PROLEG in Civil Litigation
  Ken Satoh, Kazuko Takahashi and Tatsuki Kawasaki

Doctoral Consortium Papers

• Artifact design for design-science research on process mining for legal compliance
  Adriana Jacoto Unger
• The Digital Administrative Act
  Alexander Stepanov
• Measurement of Consistency in Judicial Decisions
  Aline Macohin
• Judged by Machines? How do algorithms, now used in criminal justice, impact on the legitimacy of the system?
  Cari Hyde-Vaamonde
• Beyond persons and things: the legal status of artificial intelligence
  Diana Mocanu
• Constitutional limits to the use of artificial intelligence in court proceedings
  Elisabeth Paar
• ESRA: An End-to-End System for Re-Identification and Anonymization of Swiss Court Decisions
  Joel Niklaus
• Transactions on Privacy and the Tools that Assist – An Interdisciplinary Analysis
  Kartik Chawla
• Algorithms (Dis)serving Justice: Risk Assessment Tools in Pre-trial Process
  Mina Ilhan
• An African Perspective on Answering the Ethics Question: Who Should Make the Rules on Self-Driving Cars?
  Okechukwu Effoduh
• HONto: A Knowledge Base from Textbooks for Legal Text Retrieval and Recommendations
  Sabine Wehnert

COLLIE Papers

• BERT-based Ensemble Methods with Data Augmentation for Legal Textual Entailment in COLLIE Statute Law Task
  Masaharu Yoshioka, Yasuhiro Aoki and Youta Suzuki
• Legal Norm Retrieval with Variations of the BERT Model Combined with TF-IDF Vectorization
  Sabine Sarah Wehnert, Viju Sudhi, Shipra Dureja, Libin  Johnny Kutty, Saijal Shahania and Ernesto William De Luca
• To Tune or Not To Tune ? Zero-shot Models for Legal Case Entailment
  Guilherme Moraes Rosa, Ruan Chaves Rodrigues, Roberto Lotufo and Rodrigo Nogueira

About

1. The conference will be held 100% online- 21th to the 25th of June 2021.
2. Times are shown in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
3. Registrations, both for speakers and participants, will be free of charge at the Conf Tool Platform – https://www.conftool.net/icail2021/.

Model

1. Each speaker presenting full papers will have two periods for live presentation:
   1. one for synchronous presentation open for questions by the audience (written in the platform’s blog and selected by the speaker)
   2. a second one, in a different period of the conference, for discussion-only after the streaming of the previously recorded presentation;
2. The presentation will be recorded and available at the website in a blog where the participants may register questions to be selected by the speaker for discussion after the streaming section;
3. Each speaker presenting short papers will have one period for a synchronous presentation open for questions by the audience (written in the platform’s blog and selected by the speaker). Short papers will not be streamed a second time but the presentation will be recorded and available at the website in a blog where the participants may register questions.

Presentation Windows

There will be three presentation windows for each day, embracing different global times:

Panels

1. Great Opening and Industry Meeting will happen on Monday at 1:30pm. Keynote speakers and presidential address will happen on Tuesday, Wednesday  and Thursday at 2:30pm (useful for all relevant time zones: América – West Coast and East Cost, Europe, Oceania and Asia).
2. The programme schedule includes live presentations of full papers (20 min)+ discussion (10 min), live presentations of short papers (10 min) + discussion (5 min), streamings of pre-recorded presentations of full papers  (20 min) + live discussion (10 min) and live presentations of COLIEE papers (10 min) + live discussion (5 min), as well as presentations of demos and extended abstracts (5 min).