 Archives of the Artificial Intelligence and
Law mailing list. This list can also be searched.
LOGIC, COMPUTATION,
LAW - a Workshop in Honor of Carlos Eduardo Alchourrón, Pisa, Italy, 21 and 22
October 1996. In Memoriam
Carlos Eduardo Alchourrón.
Three special issues are in preparation, for two international journals in computing
for law. Inquiries should be directed to the respective contact, as listed.
Special Issue on Judicial
Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence and Law Journal.
Guest Editor Contact Information:
Special Issue on Time and
Evidence, Artificial Intelligence and Law Journal. Guest Editor Contact Information:
Special Issue on
Formal and Computational Models of Legal Narratives, Law, Computers and Artificial
Intelligence. Guest Editor Contact Information:
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Sixth International Conference on
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and LAW - Call for Papers for this conference to be held at
the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia on June 30 -July 3, 1997.
JURIX '96 Ninth International
Conference on Legal Knowledge-Based Systems.
LOGIC, COMPUTATION,
LAW - a Workshop in Honor of Carlos Eduardo Alchourrón, Pisa, Italy, 21 and 22
October 1996. In Memoriam
Carlos Eduardo Alchourrón.
Fifth National Conference on
Law, Computers and Artificial Intelligence The organisers of this conference are based
at Exeter University.
The International
Conference on Logic Programming sometimes has workshops on the legal application of
logic programming.
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The American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
It has a subgroup specifically devoted to the use of artificial intelligence in law.
The International Association for Artificial
Intelligence and Law. Lots of useful information about the Society. Includes a
contents list for all the ICAIL proceedings.
JURIX
The Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems. This sites contains links to many Dutch sites
related to artificial intelligence and law, including some that are not listed here (since
they are only provided in Dutch).
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Check out these expert systems developed by the ACT
Attorney General's Department.
Department of Computer Science and Law at the University of Amsterdam.
The Department
of Computer Science at The Australian National University provides information about SHYSTER, a case based reasoning system.
The code for the system is also available here.
The Knowledge Based Systems Group in the
Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh has produced a Case-Based
Reasoning System to Support the Relaxation of Building Regulations
The Centre for Criminology and the Social
and Philosophical Study of Law at the University of Edinburgh has an interesest in
artificial intelligence and law.
EURIDIS The Erasmus
University Research Institute for Decision and Information Systems.
CNR - Institute for Legal Documentation -
Florence and their gopher site.
CRID - Centre de recherche
informatique et droit at the Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix. In French.
The Internal Revenue Service has
developed an expert system, The
Employee/Contractor Determiner, which aids in determining when a worker is an employee
vs. an independent contractor. It is projected that annual salary savings over $1 million,
or increased revenues over $22 million, will result from nation-wide implementation.
The FLAIR project is a joint venture between
the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law and International Compu Research, Inc
and has created FlexLaw, a rule-based expert system for searching full text legal
databases.
The University of Kaiserslautern is
involved in a project entitled "The Intelligent
Land Use Plan" which is an expert system dealing with land use planning
regulations.
The Institute for New Generation
Computer Technolgy, Japan provides knowledge
processing software relevant to legal reasoning.
Richard Fox at the University of Texas -
Pan American leads a team interested in abduction and layered abduction and have produced
a system called Peyer which utelises
these.
The
Logic Programming Section of the Department of Computing, Imperial College has an
interest in legal reasoning.
The United
States Sentencing Commission provides ASSYST,
an expert system providing support for sentencing decisions, for downloading.
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Law &
Information Technology in the law faculty at the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven.
LIAL - Legal Informatics at Liverpool.
An informal forum which exists to encourage computer scientists with different specialisms
to apply their expertise to the legal domain.
The Department of Metajuridica at the
University of Limburg.
The
Case-Based Reasoning Group at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. This group
has developed some of the best AI and Law CBR systems.
INSTITUT FÜR RECHTSINFORMATIK at the
Universität Hannover. Materials in German.
University of Montreal - Faculty of
Law, Centre de recherche en droit public conducts research into computer
science and law, including artificial intelligence and law.
New HELIC-II developed
by the Institute for New Generation Computer Technology, Japan. A few papers realted to
the project are also provided here
The New York Customs Service has
developed an Automated Targeting
Systems for Law Enforcement.
The Norwegian Research Centre for Computers
and Law.
RAND.
This site can also be searched.
Saarbrucken
University (Germany). Material s mostly in German.
Department of Public
Administration and Public Policy at the University of Twente.
The STARLAB at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel has a number a projects planned in AI and law.
The Swedish Law &
Informatics Research Institute.
UCSD provides a little early information
on SCALIR, a
Symbolic and Connectionist Approach to Legal Information Retrieval.
The Centre for Law and
Informatization at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands.
Work on understanding legal arguments
has been performed by members of Victoria
University, New Zealand.
The ZENO Project at the German National
Research Centre for Computer Science. Another paper on the ZENO project can be found here.
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Journals
MIT Journal of Computer-Aided
Litigation.
PC AI Magazine occassionally contains
articles relevant to AI and law.
Rutgers Computer & Technology Law
Journal.
The Institute for Language Technology and
Artificial Intelligence at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. The Institute
publishes THINK which contains articles relevant to the field of artificial intelligence
and law.
The Artificial Intelligence and Law
Journal. Information for authors. Calls for papers can be accessed here.
The Computer and High Technology Law Journal
from Santa Clara University, California.
The Berkely Technology Law Journal (formerly The High Technology Law Journal) from
Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkely.
Journal of Law and Technology published by
Harvard University.
The Journal of Law and Information Science
An Australian journal based at Tasmania University which often has articles relating to
the use of AI in law. Hull University's Information Law and Technology Unit has an archive of abstracts
from previous volumes.
The Journal of Information, Law and
Technology sometimes contains articles relating to law and Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Based Systems. These include: Commercialising
Legal Neural Networks by Dan Hunter, Representations of
Knowledge and Discretionary Decision-Making by Decision-Support Systems : the Case of
Judicial Sentencing by Cyrus Tata, John N. Wilson and Neil Hutton, and Is a computer
capable of interpreting case law? by Prof. R.V. De Mulder and C.J.M. Combrink-Kuiters.
Publishers
Dartmouth Publishing. Their catalogue can
also be searched.
Elsevier.
Their catalogue can be searched.
Kluwer.
Their catalogue can be searched.
IOS Press
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Note that many of the pages in the sections "AI and Law Researchers" and
'Research Groups and Centres' contain links to papers and other materials not explicitly
referenced below. The best source of information about papers in AI and Law is of course
the bibliography, accessible from this pages.
Andrew Greinke has written a paper
titled Legal
Expert Systems: A Humanistic Critique of Mechanical Legal Inference.
Andrew Tjay Kwie Lim has written a paper
titled INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT FOR LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENT: TOOLS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE ENGINEER.
JC Smith from the University of Brisith
Columbia several papers
available for downloading. J C Smith has also written a paper with Daphne Gelbart, titled Legal Reasoning, Legal
Theory, and Artificial Intelligence.
One of the papers produced under the
KADS-II Esprit Project is on modelling legal reasoning.
Philip Greenspun and Marc Lauritsen have
written a paper titled Making
Way for Intelligence in Case Space in MIT Journal of Computer-Aided
Litigation.
The Knowledge Systems Laboratory at
Stanford University provides a report on a case-based
legal reasoner it has produced in the medical domain.
Kagayama Shigeru of the Chair of Civil Law II, Osaka
University has produced this paper entitled "The
Fundamentals of Expert Systems on Tort in Japan."
Ronald Loui has written this paper on Hart's Critics on Defeasible Concepts
and Ascriptivism, a preliminary text for the Fifth International Conference on AI and
Law.
Nomic is a game invented by Peter Suber. This game has strong
overlaps with law and logic and may be of interest to those interested in AI and law. The
FAQ can be found here.
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This course on artificial intelligence and
Law is taught by Carole Haffner.
This course, titled Law and Artificial Intelligence
is run by the University of Melbournne, Australia.
The Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain runs
a Master on Sciences and
Techniques in criminal investigation a component of which is artificial intelligence
and legal document retrieval.
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Kevin Ashley.
Jonas Barklund.
Moss Byrett.
Trevor Bench-Capon.
Jon Bing.
Richard K Belew.
Karl Branting.
M Paul Bratley.
Joost Breuker.
Indira Carr.
Laurence Cholvy.
Frans Coenen
Barbara Cuthill.
Jody J. Daniels
Aspassia Daskalopulu.
Robert Dupuis.
Paul E. Dunne
Michael Dyer.
Mikael Fraunberg.
Timur Friedman.
Tom Gedeon.
Seth Goldman.
Forouzan Golshani.
Thomas Gordon.
Graham Greenleaf.
Philip Greenspun.
Cees Groendjik.
Nienke den Haan.
Carole Hafner.
Andreas Hamfelt.
Patricia Hassett.
Henning Herrestad.
Moonja Kim.
Robert Kowalski
Robert van Kralingen.
Christen Krogh.
Ken Lambert.
Phillip Leith.
Arno Lodder.
Jeff Lorenzen.
Ronald Loui.
Robert McCartney.
Thorne McCarty.
Bruce McLaren.
Luuk Matthijssen.
Dieter Merkl.
Naftaly Minsky.
Andrew Mowbray.
Ajit Narayanan.
Ephraim Nissan.
Geert-Jan van Opdorp.
Anja Oskamp.
Ramesh Patil.
Lothar
Philipps.
James Popple.
Henry Prakken.
Edwina Rissland.
Tom Routen.
Pierre St-Vincent.
Uri Schild.
Tobias Schleider.
Joost Schrickx.
Marek Sergot.
David Skalak.
J C Smith.
Paul Soper.
Georges Span.
Erich Schweighofer
Claude Thomasset.
Francesca Toni
Maaike Tragter.
Daniela Tiscornia.
Alan L Tyree.
Andre Valente.
Egon M. Verharen.
Pepijn Visser.
Peter Wahlgren.
David Warner.
Werner Winiwarter.
Radboud Winkels.
John Zeleznikow.
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Arthur Andersen provide
various Technology Solutions for Corporate Tax Departments.
Attar
Software are the devlopers of XpertRule, which has been used for numerous purposes
including the construction of a Swedish VAT
(Value Added Tax) tax advisor and training system.
EP Expert from Eidelman Associates
provides a practice system "starter kit" for estate planners.
EXSYS
Expert System Software and Services. These guys produce expert systems software that has
been used to produce various legal and regulatory applications. Check out their Web demos!
Legal
Expert Systems Limited provide various computerised tools for lawyers.
Softlaw:
information about this Australian company which has produced several large computerised
legal applications that utelise artificial intelligence technologies.
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Case-Based Reasoning
The CBR Home Page
maintained by Ian Watson. A large structered set of resources relating to case-based
reasoning.
Another large well organised list of Case-Based
Reasoning Resources, maintained by David W. Aha.
Center
for Intelligent Information Retrieval (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).
Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Resources. A
Canadian megalist of general AI resources.
Law
The WWW Virtual Law Library.
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Take a break from writing papers and have some fun experimenting with these systems.
Check out these expert systems developed by the ACT
Attorney General's Department.
EXSYS
Expert System Software and Services provide several systems that you can experiment
with.
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