ICAIL 2025: Call for Papers

The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2025) will be held at Northwestern University in Chicago from June 16 to 20, 2025.

ICAIL is organized under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL). The conference proceedings are published by ACM.

Calls For Papers

We invite submission of original papers on Artificial Intelligence & Law, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Argument mining on legal texts
• Classification and automatic summarization of legal text
• Computational methods for negotiation and contract formation
• Computer-assisted dispute resolution
• Computable representations of legal rules and domain specific languages for the law
• Decision support systems in the legal domain
• Deep learning on data and text from the legal domain
• Dialog systems in the legal domain
• e-discovery and e-disclosure
• e-government, e-democracy and e-justice
• Empirical research (quantitative and qualitative analysis) on the use of AI systems in legal practice
• Innovative applications in AI and Law
• Philosophical and legal-theoretical analysis of the significance and implications of methodologies or technical features of AI systems
• Systems and methods designed for compliance checking with respect to normative principles, rules and standards (legal or ethical)
• Methodologies for the technical design in AI systems of compliance with normative principles, rules and standards of trustworthy or responsible AI
• Explainable AI for the legal domain
• Formal and computational models of legal reasoning (e.g., argumentation, case-based reasoning), including deontic logics
• Formal and conceptual modeling of fundamental legal concepts
• Formal and computational models of evidential reasoning
• Formal models of norms and norm-governed systems
• Information extraction from legal databases and texts
• Information retrieval, question answering, and literature recommendation in the legal domain
• Intelligent legal tutoring systems
• Intelligent support systems for forensics
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems
• Knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain
• Knowledge representation, knowledge engineering, and ontologies in the legal domain
• Legal design involving AI techniques
• Machine learning and data analytics applied to the legal domain
• Natural language processing of legal text
• Applications of generative AI systems (LLMs) to the legal domain
• Normative reasoning by autonomous agents
• Open and linked data in the legal domain
• Smart contracts and application of blockchain in the legal domain
• Visualization techniques for legal information and data

Paper Submission Guidelines

• Papers (up to 10 pages including references for long papers, up to 5 pages including references for short papers).
• All papers must make clear their relation to legal information, reasoning, or processes.
• There should be a statement about the novel scientific contribution.
• The relation to prior work must be well-developed.
• The paper ought to report a full and satisfying discussion of its findings.
• It is highly recommended that code and data be published alongside the papers for all submissions to facilitate reproducibility.
• Paper must be formatted using the ACM sigconf template (for LaTeX) or the interim template layout.docx (for Word), both at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
• Submissions can be made via the conftool platform, in the following link.
• Reviewing will be double-blind.
• Submitted papers may not be published as open access preprints before acceptance notifications have been sent.
• If you have any questions about the submission process, please direct them to icail2025@conftool.net.

Calls For Workshops

ICAIL 2025 will include workshops and tutorials on Monday, June 16th and Friday, June 20th.

Proposals must contain enough information to permit evaluation on the basis of importance, quality, and community interest. Proposals should be 2 to 4 pages and include specific information detailed in the source document.

Proposals for workshops and tutorials must be submitted in a filling form.

Calls For Demonstrations

A session will be organized for the demonstration of creative, robust, and practical working applications and tools.

Where a demonstration is not connected to a submitted paper, a two-page extended abstract about the system should be submitted for review, via the conference support system and following the instructions on paper submission.

Doctoral Consortium

The ICAIL 2025 Doctoral Consortium invites submissions from doctoral students/candidates describing their research/thesis currently being written in any areas of AI & Law.

Submissions are limited to 10 pages, should be in English using LNCS format and submitted electronically in PDF format jointly with a maximum 3 page CV. Please submit to https://www.conftool.net/icail2025/

Important Dates

• Workshop and Tutorial Proposals Submission: 20 December 2024
• Paper Submission: 28 January 2025
• Demonstration Submission (including extended abstracts*): 28 January 2025
• Deadline for submission (Doctoral Consortium): April 23, 2025 AoE
• Notification of acceptance (Doctoral Consortium): April 30, 2025 AoE
• Camera-ready copy due (Doctoral Consortium): May 5, 2025 AoE
• Notification of acceptance for Papers and Demonstrations: 24 April 2025
• Registration opens: 24 April 2025
• Camera Ready papers due: 05 May 2025
• Conference: 16-20 June 2025