CfP: LAW’26 – Legal Agents Workshop (ICAIL 2026)

[Steging, C.C.]

Call for Papers – Legal Agents Workshop (LAW’26)

(in conjunction with ICAIL 2026, 8–12 June, Singapore)

Workshop date: 12 June 2026 (full-day)

Website: https://law2026.ai.rug.nl/

Agentic approaches are increasingly used in legal contexts, yet these approaches remain conceptually and methodologically fragmented across AI and Law. Agents appear in many forms: as components of multi-agent systems interacting under norms, as abstractions in agent-based models used to simulate legal phenomena, as autonomous or semi-autonomous tools that act on behalf of users, and as objects of legal, ethical, and philosophical inquiry. With the recent resurgence of interest in agentic AI, particularly in connection with large language models, questions about what an “agent” is, what it can or should do, and how agency should be understood in legal contexts have become both more pressing and contested.

The Legal Agents Workshop (LAW’26) aims to bring together researchers working on formal, computational, empirical, legal, and philosophical approaches to artificial agents in AI & Law. The goal is to create a dedicated forum for consolidating scattered insights, comparing traditional AI agent approaches and modern agentic AI, and fostering discussion between theoretical and applied perspectives. By doing so, the workshop seeks to establish a starting point for future research and for the development of a more systematic research agenda on agents in legal domains.

The full-day workshop will feature:

• An introductory overview session on agentic approaches in AI & Law

• Invited talk on agents in the legal domain

• Paper presentations and demonstrations of accepted contributions

• Structured discussion sessions aimed at clarifying concepts, identifying common ground, and outlining open research questions

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Topics of interest

The workshop explicitly welcomes all types of work on agents in the legal domain, including:

• Agent-based modelling (ABM) and simulation in law (e.g. simulation of legal reasoning or court dynamics)

• Multi-agent systems (MAS) in legally relevant settings (e.g. normative MAS, deployment in real-world contexts)

• Agentic AI in law, including generative and tool-using agents

• Legal, ethical, and regulatory approaches to agents

• Philosophical perspectives on agency and its role in law

• Hybrid human–agent collaboration and interaction in law

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Submission guidelines

We welcome full papers, short papers, position papers, working papers, demos, blue-sky papers, and extended abstracts.

Paper length:

• Long papers: up to 10 pages including references

• Short papers: up to 5 pages including references

All submissions must:

• Clearly state their relevance to artificial agents in relation to legal information, reasoning, or processes;

• Articulate their novel scientific contribution and relation to prior work;

• Follow the ACM sigconf (LaTeX) or interim Word template;

• Be submitted in PDF format.

Reviewing will be double-blind. Submissions must be anonymised in accordance with ICAIL reviewing guidelines. Papers that do not meet formatting, page limit, or anonymity requirements may be rejected without review.

Submissions should be uploaded to EasyChair.

Depending on interest, CEUR-WS proceedings may be published.

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Important dates

• 17 April 2026 – Optional abstract submission

• 24 April 2026 – Paper submission deadline

• 28 April 2026 – Review assignment

• 8 May 2026 – Review deadline

• 13 May 2026 – Notification of acceptance

• 22 May 2026 – Camera-ready version

Organising and Programme Committees

• Ludi van Leeuwen, Msc, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

• Cor Steging, PhD, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

• Tadeusz Zbiegień, MA, Jagiellonian University

• Michał Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University

• Sebastian Benthall, New York University School of Law

• Morgan Gray, University of Pittsburgh

• Henry Prakken, Utrecht University

• Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics

• Jaromir Savelka, Carnegie Mellon University

• Alex Schwartz, University of Glasgow

• Giovanni Sileno, University of Amsterdam

• Bart Verheij, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

• Rineke Verbrugge, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

• Wijnand van Woerkom, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg

• Satchit Chatterji, University of Amsterdam

• Hannes Westermann, Maastricht University

• Tomasz Zurek, Maria Curie Skłodowska University

For more information, updates, and contact details, please visit: https://law2026.ai.rug.nl/