This journal seeks papers that address the development of formal or computational models of legal knowledge, reasoning, and decision making. It also includes in-depth studies of innovative artificial intelligence systems that are being used in the legal domain, and gives space to studies addressing the legal, ethical and social implications of the use of artificial intelligence in law. It welcomes interdisciplinary approaches including not only artificial intelligence and jurisprudence, but also logic, machine learning, cognitive psychology, linguistics, or philosophy.
In addition to original research contributions, this journal welcomes book reviews as well as research notes posing interesting and timely research challenges.
- Contains information on theoretical or empirical studies in AI, cognitive psychology, jurisprudence, linguistics, or philosophy
- Addresses the development of formal or computational models of legal knowledge, reasoning, and decision making
- Includes in-depth studies of innovative artificial intelligence systems that are being used in the legal domain
- Features studies that address the ethical and social implications of the field
- Ranked in the top quartile for AI journals on the SCImago Journal Ranking
topics of interest
Artificial Intelligence and Law is an international forum for the dissemination of original interdisciplinary research in the following areas:
- Theoretical or empirical studies in artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive psychology, jurisprudence, linguistics, or philosophy which address the development of formal or computational models of legal knowledge, reasoning, and decision making.
- In-depth studies of innovative artificial intelligence systems that are being used in the legal domain.
- Studies which address the legal, ethical and social implications of the field of Artificial Intelligence and Law.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Computational models of legal reasoning and decision making; judgmental reasoning, adversarial reasoning, case-based reasoning, deontic reasoning, and normative reasoning.
- Formal representation of legal knowledge: deontic notions, normative
modalities, rights, factors, values, rules. - Jurisprudential theories of legal reasoning.
- Specialized logics for law.
- Psychological and linguistic studies concerning legal reasoning.
- Legal expert systems; statutory systems, legal practice systems, predictive systems, and normative systems.
- AI and law support for legislative drafting, judicial decision-making, and
public administration. - Intelligent processing of legal documents; conceptual retrieval of cases and statutes, automatic text understanding, intelligent document assembly systems, hypertext, and semantic markup of legal documents.
- Intelligent processing of legal information on the World Wide Web, legal ontologies, automated intelligent legal agents, electronic legal institutions, computational models of legal texts.
- Ramifications for AI and Law in e-Commerce, automatic contracting and negotiation, digital rights management, and automated dispute resolution.
- Ramifications for AI and Law in e-governance, e-government, e-Democracy, and knowledge-based systems supporting public services, public dialogue and mediation.
- Intelligent computer-assisted instructional systems in law or ethics.
- Evaluation and auditing techniques for legal AI systems.
- Systemic problems in the construction and delivery of legal AI systems.
- Impact of AI on the law and legal institutions.
- Ethical issues concerning legal AI systems.
In addition to original research contributions, the Journal will include a Book Review section, a series of Technology Reports describing existing and emerging products, applications and technologies, and a Research Notes section of occasional essays posing interesting and timely research challenges for the field of Artificial Intelligence and Law.
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Compliance checking on first-order knowledge with conflicting and compensatory norms: a comparison among currently available technologies (2023) — Livio Robaldo, Sotiris Batsakis, Roberta Calegari, Francesco Calimeri, Megumi Fujita, Guido Governatori, Maria Concetta Morelli, Francesco Pacenza, Giuseppe Pisano, Ken Satoh, Ilias Tachmazidis, Jessica Zangari
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