One week until the deadline: ICAIL 2025 Doctoral Consortium – Call for submissions

[Réka Markovich]

ICAIL 2025 Doctoral Consortium – Call for Submissions

The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Chicago (Illinois), United States, June 16-20, 2025

https://sites.northwestern.edu/icail2025/

 

The ICAIL 2025 Doctoral Consortium invites submissions from doctoral students/candidates describing their research/thesis currently being written in any areas of AI&Law.

 

Purpose and Eligibility

This event aims at promoting the exchange of ideas from PhD researchers in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Law, and at providing 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:

      · obtain fruitful feedback and advice on their research projects;

      · meet experts from different backgrounds working on topics related to the AI & Law and Legal Information Systems fields;

      · have a face-to-face mentoring discussion on the topic and methodology of the PhD with an international senior scholar;

      · discuss concerns about research, supervision, the job market, and other career-related issues.

 

To be eligible for the Consortium, a candidate must be a current doctoral student at a recognized 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 2025 conference. We expect submissions addressing any topic related to the AI & Law discipline, listed in the call for papers for the main conference.

Submission

Students are invited to submit an original description of their work addressing the following aspects:

·  A clear formulation of the research question;

·  An identification of the significant problems in the field of research;

· An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions;

·  A presentation of preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far;

·  A sketch of the applied research methodology;

·  A description of the PhD project’s contribution to the problem solution;

·  A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better than existing approaches to the problem.

Submissions are limited to 10 pages, should be in English using LNCS format and submitted electronically in PDF format jointly with a maximum 3 page CV. Please submit to https://www.conftool.net/icail2025/

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 publish (format and venue are currently under negotiation).

 

Important Dates

·         Deadline for submission: April 23, 2025 AoE

·         Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2025 AoE

·         Camera-ready copy due: May 5, 2025 AoE

·         Conference: June 16-20, 2025

 

Award

The Best Paper of ICAIL 2025 Doctoral Consortium Award will be assigned to the most original, innovative and well-presented research.

 

Chair

Réka Markovich, University of Luxembourg, reka.ma...@uni.lu

Réka Markovich JD PhD

Department of Computer Science

Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine

UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG

www.uni.lu / https://rekamarkovich.github.io/ 

https://www.uni.lu/fstm-en/research-groups/computational-law-and-machine-ethics/

[Pedro Freitas]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Artificial Intelligence and Law
Thematic track of the 24th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(EPIA 2025)
October 1-3, 2025
University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, Faro, Portugal

Webpage: https://epia2025.ualg.pt/

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Artificial intelligence and law is a field of study and research, which has been established since long and deals with all the possible applications of artificial intelligence to the world of law. Traditionally, this field has mainly concerned the forms of legal reasoning, the formation of legal knowledge, and the decision-making processes inherent to the legal domain. However, recent developments in artificial intelligence have also affected this area of study and research. Increasingly, artificial intelligence is no longer defined with close reference to the notion of human intelligence, consciousness, and alike, but is considered as a growing resource of interactive, autonomous, and self-learning agency. As a smart form of agency, AI has even a greater potential to affect and reshape law, while raising legal, technical, and ethical issues, which affect human autonomy, self-determination, and responsibility. Furthermore, since AI is gradually more fueled by data, these issues are predominantly rooted in data collection, retention and management. This raises key questions and challenges that require full examination and discussion, since they deeply affect the future trends of law.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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• Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2025 (AoE)
• Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025
• Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE)
• Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Formal and computational models of legal knowledge
• Models of legal reasoning
• Artificial intelligent systems in the legal domain
• Automation and decision-making process
• Machine learning and data mining
• Artificial intelligence and litigation
• Predictive coding
• Interactive, autonomous and self-learning agency
• Ethics of artificial intelligence

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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* All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2025 EasyChair submission page.
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=epia2025
* The papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNAI format, with a maximum of 12 pages. However, you should consider any track-specific details in your submission.
* Accept papers will be included in the conference proceedings as long as at least one author is registered in EPIA 2025 by the early bird registration deadline.
* EPIA 2025 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, and Google Scholar.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Pedro Miguel Freitas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Ugo Pagallo, University of Torino, taly
Massimo Durante, University of Torino, Italy
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho