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. 

Topics of Interest

• 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
• Legal implications of Artificial Intelligence 

Organizing Committee

Pedro Freitas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
Massimo Durante, University of Torino, Italy
Ugo Pagallo, University of Torino, Italy

Program Committee

Cinthia Obladen, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil
Clara Pereira, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Carlisle George, Middlesex University London, United Kingdom
Federico Bueno de Mata, University of Salamanca, Spain
Flúvio Garcia, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil
Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy
Isabel Pereira, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Luis Moniz Pereira, Nova University Lisbon, Portugal
Manuel Masseno, Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal
Serena Quattrocolo, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Sofia Ranchordas, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vicente Julian, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain