ICAIL2023 - AI4LEGS Workshop - call for papers

[Monica Palmirani]

First Workshop of AI4Legs: AI for Legislation
Braga June 23rd, 2023

Co-located with the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2023)

Web site: https://site.unibo.it/hypermodelex/en/agenda/ai4legs-2023

OBJECTIVES

Can the Law be written by GPT-4? Can the members of the parliament use ChatGPT for improving their knowledge of the society needs? Can the Law be converted into programming code using AI/ML and logic formula without losing legal theory principles, legal linguistic expressivity, and Constitutional principles? Can the digital format of Law be equally valid and considered legitimate Legal Sources and under which conditions? Can a whole Legal System –including its diachronic dimension– be managed in a digital manner by using knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web techniques, Legal ontologies, Logic theory? Can such translation be made automatically executable using Smart Contracts and immediately enforceable? How to render the “Law as Code” (Greenleaf 2020) to the common citizen in a simple, yet transparent and accountable manner? Can an explicit normative statement be expressed natively in code or in non-linguistic signs (e.g., icons)? Which principles are necessary in order to not compress The Rule of Law and Democratic principles? What new legal theory is needed for a deep digital transformation of the legislative process that produces a digital format of Law with an innovative generative and constitutive modality instead of converting text (logos) into code? How to produce Law in non-textual norms preserving the normativity? How to improve the legislative process using AI/ML for better regulation?

 

This workshop would like to discuss these challenging questions with interdisciplinary instruments coming from philosophy of law, Constitutional law, legal informatics including AI&Law, computational linguistics, computer science, HCI and Legal design. We intend also to provide the state of the art of the most advanced applications of AI in support of the better regulation, law-making system, aims to find answers to these questions using.

 

This initiative is supported by the ERC HyperModeLex, Monica Palmirani (Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, ALMA-AI, University of Bologna).

Invited speakers

• Matthew Waddington, Legislative Drafting Office, States of Jersey
• Willy Van Poymbroeck, European Commission, DG DIGIT
• Matt Lynch, The National Archives, UK
• Fotis Ftsilis, Hellenic Parliament

 

TOPICS

• Theory of law and ICT in the legislative process

• Legal XML and XML Rules for the legislative process

• Generative AI in the legislative process

• AI/ML for Legislative Process

• Government Linked Open Data (GLOD)

• Legal ontologies and legal knowledge graphs for better regulation

• Smart Data and the Semantic Web in legislative domain

• Governance and deliberative models of democracy using AI

• Blockchain distributed ledger technology for law-making process

• Visualization of legal knowledge for transparency in legislative domain

• NLP tools for capturing legal knowledge in legislative domain

• Legal language and NLP representation

• Legal design and visualization of the legislative knowledge

• Modelling the rule of law in the law-making process

• Interpretation modelling of legislation

• Data analytics for legislation

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Draft paper Springer LNAI format 10 pages: May 15^th, 2023
Workshop presentation: June 23^rd , 2023 – 2.00pm-6.00pm local time in Braga - hybrid modality, in presence and remotely connected
Notification of acceptance:  May 26^th 2023
Camera-ready (Springer LNAI): May 31^st 2023
Publication (selected papers) LNAI: December 2023 in AICOL2023 volume

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers should be in English and must be submitted at AICOL Easychair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4legs2023

Position Papers (8 pages)
Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
Min. 6000 words and max. 15000 words.
Please upload all submissions in LNCS-LNAI format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)

Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least by 3 PC members before being accepted for presentation at the Workshop. A second peer review-round will be carried out before submission to the next AICOL volume at LNAI (end of 2023).

Workshop Organizer
Monica Palmirani (Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, ALMA-AI, University of Bologna) 

Programme COMMITTEE

• Paulo H. C. Alves, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
• María Luisa Alvite Díez, Universidad de León
• Floris Bex, Utrecht University
• Pompeu Casanovas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
• Giuseppe Contissa, University of Bologna, ALMA-AI
• Jaime Delgado, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Luigi Di Caro, University of Torino
• Gijs van Dijck, Maastricht University
• Nicoletta Fornara, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
• Enrico Francesconi, IGSG-CNR
• Mercedes Martinez-Gonzalez, University of Valladolid
• Guido Governatori, Independent researcher
• Mustafa Hashmi, Data 61, CSIRO
• Silvia Llorente, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Marco Manna, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria
• Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Jagiellonian University
• Jose Palma, University of Murcia
• Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, ALMA-AI
• Marta Poblet, RMIT University
• Radim Polčák, Masaryk University
• Shashishekar Ramakrishna, EY-AI Labs / Free University of Berlin
• Livio Robaldo, Legal Innovation Lab Wales, University of Swansea
• Giovanni Sartor, EUI/University of Bologna, ALMA-AI
• Jaromir Savelka, Carnegie Mellon University
• Piotr Skrzypczynski, Poznan University of Technology
• Adam Wyner, Swansea University
• John Zeleznikow, La Trobe University