Eleventh
International Conference
on
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and LAW
ICAIL 2007
June 4 – June 8, 2007
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA
http://www.iaail.org
Sponsored by:
- International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)
- Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, Stanford Law School
- Thomson West
In cooperation with:
- ACM Sigart
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The speaker at the conference dinner on Wednesday, June 6, will be John Perry, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford. He is also the co-host of Philosophy Talk, a radio series whose recent guests have included Law School Dean Larry Kramer and MIT Professor Marvin Minsky.
The winner of the Donald H. Berman Award for Best Student Paper is Floris J. Bex, University of Groningen. His paper, with Henry Prakken and Bart Verheij, is titled Formalising Argumentative Story-based Analysis of Evidence.
LOCATION
ICAIL 2007 will be held at the Stanford Law School, on the campus of Stanford University. Stanford is adjacent to Palo Alto, California, about 35 miles south of San Francisco and half way between San Francisco (SFO) and San Jose (SJC) airports. For further information, see the maps of the campus and the area and general information for Stanford visitors.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The full conference program, including the date and time of each presentation, is available for downloading in PDF format.
Monday, June 4
All day workshops
- FMEC: Formal modelling for electronic commerce
- LOAIT: Legal ontologies and AI techniques
- DESI: Supporting search and sensemaking for electronically stored information in discovery proceedings
Afternoon tutorials
- Advanced legal technology in practice
- Enhanced dispute resolution through the use of information technology
Welcome reception
Tuesday, June 5 — technical sessions
Wednesday, June 6 — technical sessions and conference dinner
Thursday, June 7 – technical sessions
Friday, June 8 – All day workshops
INVITED SPEAKERS
- Deborah L. McGuinness, Acting Director, Knowledge Systems, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Stanford University, and Principal Research Scientist, CodeX: Stanford Center for Computers and Law, "Semantically Enabling Computational Legal Information Systems"
- George Fisher, Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, "Argument as Storytelling"
- Thomas F. Gordon, IAAIL President and Senior Research Scientist, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS); Berlin, Germany, "20 Years of ICAIL: Reflections on the Field of AI and Law
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
The list of papers accepted for presentation at ICAIL 2007 is available for downloading, in PDF format. See the conference program for the time schedule of the presentations.
CONFERENCE BANQUET
The conference banquet, which is generously sponsored by Thomson West, will be held on Wednesday evening at the Bechtel Conference Center in Encina Hall, an original campus building within walking distance of the Law School.
RELATED EVENTS
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
See the ICAIL 2007 Registration for further information.
CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
Program Chair
Radboud Winkels
Leibniz Center for Law
University of Amsterdam
PO Box 1030
1000 BA Amsterdam, Netherlands
Email: winkels@uva.nl.
Tel: +31-20-525-3485
Conference Chair
Anne Gardner
286 Selby Lane, Atherton, California 94027, USA
Email: gardner@cs.stanford.edu.
Tel: +1-650-368-1297
Secretary/Treasurer
Carole Hafner
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Email: hafner@ccs.neu.edu
Tel: +1-617-373-5116
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Radboud Winkels (chair), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Vincent Aleven, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
- Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
- Danielle Bourcier, CNRS CERSA, University of Paris 2, France
- Karl L. Branting, BAE Systems, Columbia, Maryland, USA
- Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Enrique Cáceres, Nieto Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, Mexico City, Mexico
- Pompeu Casanovas, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
- Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Legal & Regulatory, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Tom van Engers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Anne Gardner, Atherton, California, USA
- Thomas F. Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
- Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
- Carole D. Hafner, Northeastern University, USA
- Peter Jackson, Thomson Legal & Regulatory, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Andrew J.I. Jones, King's College London, UK
- Marc Lauritsen, Capstone Practice Systems, USA
- Arno Lodder, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Ronald Loui, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
- Thorne McCarty, Rutgers University, USA
- Marie-Francine Moens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
- Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
- Henry Prakken, Utrecht University and University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts, USA
- Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy
- Burkhard Schafer, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Uri Schild, Bar Ilan University, Israel
- Marek J. Sergot, Imperial College, UK
- Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia