The field of AI and Law is concerned with:

the study of legal reasoning using computational methods
the study of AI and other advanced information technologies, using law as an example domain
formal models of norms, normative systems, norm-governed societies
legal and quasi-legal applications of AI and other advanced information technologies



The ICAIL conference is the primary international conference addressing research in Artificial Intelligence and Law, and has been organized biennially since 1987 under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL). ICAIL provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and practical applications; it fosters interdisciplinary and international collaboration. The conference proceedings are published by ACM. The journal Artificial Intelligence and Law regularly publishes expanded versions of selected ICAIL papers.

ICAIL 2013, the fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, invites the submission of papers on a broad spectrum of research topics. Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not restricted to

Formal and computational models of legal reasoning
Knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain, including natural language processing and data mining
Computational models of argumentation and decision making
Legal knowledge representation including legal ontologies and common sense knowledge
Automatic legal text classification and summarization
Automated information extraction from legal databases and texts
Machine learning and data mining applied to legal databases
Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
E-discovery and e-disclosure
E-government and e-justice
Computational models of evidential reasoning
Modeling norms for multi-agent systems
Modeling negotiation and contract formation
Computational models of case-based legal reasoning
Online dispute resolution
Intelligent legal tutoring systems
Intelligent support systems for the legal domain
Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems

Two tracks: regular papers and innovative applications papers

For ICAIL 2013, authors are invited to submit papers in one of two tracks: regular and innovative applications. In addition to papers about results and findings from systems, approaches, or theoretical models (in the conference's regular track), we encourage the submission of original papers about innovative applications. Both regular track papers and innovative applications papers will be assessed in a rigorous reviewing procedure. Standard assessment criteria for research papers will apply to all submissions (relevance, originality, significance, technical quality, evaluation, presentation). Papers proposing formal or computational models should provide examples and/or simulations that show the models’ applicability to a realistic legal problem or domain. Papers on innovative applications should describe clearly the motivations behind the project, the techniques employed, and the current state of both implementation and evaluation. All papers should make clear their relation to prior work.