AI & Law Special Issue on LLMs in the legal domain
Saptarshi Ghosh
Special Issue of the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal on "Applications and Evaluation of Large Language Models in the Legal Domain" -- Call For Papers
https://www.springer.com/journal/10506/updates/26259532
Large Language Models (LLMs) are presently being applied in many diverse domains. Particularly in the legal domain, LLMs are increasingly being used by researchers for many diverse tasks, including statutory reasoning, annotation of legal text, contract drafting, legal text generation, and so on. Furthermore, despite cautions issued by the U.S. Federal judiciary and guidelines established by the European Bar Association, legal practitioners are starting to rely upon LLMs as well. However, there continue to be concerns about various potential risks that can arise from the application of LLMs in the legal domain. For instance, LLMs are known to generate inconsistent text and exhibit various social biases that can be particularly harmful in the legal domain.
This journal special issue aims to produce a set of seminal papers that focuses on the application and impact of LLMs in the legal domain, as well as the ethical issues and risks that are potentially involved.
== Important dates ==
Deadline for initial submission: February 29, 2024
First-round review decisions: May 15, 2024
Deadline for revision submission: July 15, 2024
Notification of final decisions: August 31, 2024
Publication of special issue (online): October 2024 (tentative)
== Special Issue Editors ==
Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Reuters, USA
Kripabandhu Ghosh, IISER Kolkata, India
Debasis Ganguly, University of Glasgow, UK
Saptarshi Ghosh, IIT Kharagpur, India
Further details, including submission requirements and formats, are available at: