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We are pleased to announce the first edition of the Summer School on AI & Law, which will be held at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, from 8 to 10 July 2019.

See the website: https://aiandlawsummerschool.org. For any questions, please visit the contact page, https://aiandlawsummerschool.org/contact/.

Kevin Ashely, Henry Prakken, Giovanni Sartor

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2019-2020 academic year through our annual open call. This opportunity is for those who wish to spend 2019-2020 in residence in Cambridge, MA as part of the Center's vibrant community of research and practice, and who seek to engage in collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral exploration of some of the Internet's most important and compelling issues.

The special issue of the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal on Legal Text Analytics (Vol 26 Issue 2, June 2018) is now available online on the Springer website, https://link.springer.com/journal/10506/26/2/page/1. The papers in this issue exemplify recent developments in the use of language technology, machine learning, and data science to provide new insights into legal problem solving and analysis of legal texts. Topics include automated patent landscaping, the geometry and semantics of networks of authoritative legal texts, and legal text segmentation and classification.

The 31st International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems December 12–14, 2018 in Groningen, The Netherlands

Program chair: Monica Palmirani
Organisers: Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici, Henry Prakken, Bart Verheij

http://jurix2018.ai.rug.nl

The 2019 edition of the biennial International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) will be organised at the Cyberjustice Laboratory, University of Montreal (director: professor Karim Benyekhlef). More information about the laboratory can be found at www.cyberjustice.ca/en/laboratoire/presentation.
Karim Benyekhlef will be general chair of the conference, Floris Bex program chair and Anne Gardner secretary/treasurer. By the efforts of this excellent team, we can look forward to an inspiring 17th edition of ICAIL. The conference is organised under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)

Dear IAAIL members,

With this message, I would like to inform you all about the venue of ICAIL 2019 and of the 2018-2019 IAAIL executive committee.