9:00-12:45 Tutorials

Tutorial M1: Introduction to AI & Law. Kevin D. Ashley & Carole D. Hafner

Tutorial M2: Extended Markup Language (XML) and Emerging Legal XML Standards. Laurence L. Leff.

13:30-15:00 Registration

14:00-17:45 Tutorials and workshop

Tutorial A1: Search Strategies for On-Line Legal Research: a Primer and a Plea. Virginia Wise

Tutorial A2: Technical and Legal Issues in E-Commerce: an Intelligent Systems Perspective. John Zeleznikow and Andrew Stranieri

Workshop Legal Knowledge Systems in Action: Practical AI in Today's Law Offices.
Organizers: Dennis M. Kennedy, Marc Lauritsen, Anja Oskamp.

18:00-20:00 Welcome Reception and Registration

Tuesday, May 22

8:30-9:00 ANHEUSER-BUSCH HALL

9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks

9:15-11.15 Paper Session 1: Case-Based Reasoning

A cognitive approach to judicial opinion structure: applying domain expertise to component analysis. Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Legal & Regulatory, USA, Daniel P. Dabney, West Group, USA

Theory based explanation of case law domains. Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK, Giovanni Sartor, University of Bologna, Italy.

Formalizing legal coherence. Jaap C. Hage, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

An AI investigation of citation's epistemological role. Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA, Bruce M. McLaren, OpenWebs Corporation, USA

11:15-11:45 Coffee

11:45-12:45 Panel AI and Law meets Jurisprudence

Moderator:
L. Thorne McCarty, Rutgers University.

Participants:
Clark Cunningham, Washington University-in-St.Louis, USA
Jaap C. Hage, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Giovanni Sartor, University of Bologna, Italy.
Frederick Schauer, Harvard University, USA

12:45-14:30 Lunch and transportation to the Old Courthouse

14:30-15:30 Invited Address:

15:30-16:30 Tour of the Old Courthouse

16:30-17:30 Transportation back to the law school

17:30-19:00 Paper Session 2: Information Retrieval/ Development of Law
ANHEUSER-BUSCH HALL

Improving the representation of legal case texts with information extraction methods. Stefanie Brüninghaus & Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Refinement. A tool to deal with inconsistencies. Juliano Maranhão, University of São Paulo, Brasil

Dynamic arguments in a case law domain. John Henderson & Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK

Wednesday, May 23

9:00-10:30 Paper Session 3: Machine Learning Approaches

Automatic categorization of case law. Paul Thompson, University of St. Thomas, USA.

Automatic text representation, classification and labeling in European law. Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria, Andreas Rauber & Michael Dittenbach, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

A machine learning approach to prior case retrieval. Khalid Al-Kofahi, Alex Tyrrell, Arun Vachher & Peter Jackson, Thomson Legal & Regulatory, USA

10:30-11:00 Coffee and Demonstrations

11:00-12:00 Short Paper Session

Introducing PETE: computer support for teaching ethics. Ilya M. Goldin, Kevin D. Ashley & Rosa L. Pinkus, University of Pittsburgh, USA

System development a la MODDE. Tunde Meikle, Australian Catholic University/ University of Ballarat, Australia, John Yearwood, University of Ballarat, Australia

Design and implementation of GungaWeb: an application of classical expert system technology to the production of Web-based commercial systems. David E. Woodin, Due Process Software, USA.

12:00-12:45 IAAIL Business Meeting

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Invited Address:

15:00-15:50 Research Abstracts 1

Automated reasoning with legal XML documents. Laurence L. Leff, Western Illinois University, USA.

Contextual structured search to improve the representation of UN security council resolutions with information extraction methods. Hugo César Hoeschl, Tânia d’Agostini Bueno, Eduardo da S. Mattos, Andre Bortolon & Ricardo Miranda Barcia: Olimpo, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil

A categorization method for French legal documents on the web. Giraude Lame, Ecole nationale des mines de Paris, France.

AI-techniques and concept analysis. Anja Oskamp, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

AustLII’s Aide – Natural language legislative rulebases. Russell Allen, Philip Chung, Andrew Mowbray & Graham Greenleaf, Australasian Legal Information Institute, Australia.

15:50-16:20 Coffee

16:20-17:50 Paper session 4: Models of Legal Procedure / Case-Based Reasoning

Burden of proof in dialogue games and Dutch civil procedure. Ronald E. Leenes, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Modelling reasoning about evidence in legal procedure. Henry Prakken, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

A Typology of Moves Involved in Case Comparison. Bram Roth, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

19:00 Conference Banquet

Banquet Speaker: Senator Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago School of Law in Constitutional Law, and state legislator of Illinois.

Thursday, May 24

9:00-10:30: Paper session 5: Knowledge-Based Systems

Advisory systems for pro se litigants. L. Karl Branting, Administrative Office of U.S. Courts, Washington DC, USA.

Acknowledging insufficiency in the evaluation of legal knowledge-based systems: strategies towards a broad-based evaluation model. Maria Jean J. Hall, La Trobe University, Australia, John Zeleznikow, La Trobe University, Australia & University of Edinburgh, UK.

POWER: Using UML/OCL for modeling legislation – an application report. Tom M. van Engers, Belastingdienst, The Netherlands, Rik Gerrits & Margherita Boekenoogen, LibRT, The Netherlands, Erwin Glassée, Application Engineers, The Netherlands, Patries Kordelaar, O&I management partners, The Netherlands

10:30-11:00: Coffee

11:00-12:30: Paper session 6: Logic-Based Approaches

A formal approach to protocols and strategies for (legal) negotiation. Guido Governatori, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede & Phillipa Oaks, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

Norms and time in agent-based systems. Tiberiu Stratulat, Françoise Clérin-Debart, & Patrice Enjalbert, Université de Caen, France.

Reasoning about the objects of attitudes and operators. Towards a disquotation theory for representation of propositional content. Steven Orla Kimbrough, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

12:30-13:45: Lunch

13:45-14:45: Invited Address:

14:45-15:35: Research Abstracts 2

Legal decision making as dialectical theory construction with argumentation schemes. Bart Verheij, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

An action-based ontology of LEGAL RELATIONS. Guido Boella, Lyda Favali, and Leonardo Lesmo, University of Torino, Italy.

On the automation of legal reasoning about responsibility. Jos Lehmann & Abdullatif A.O. Elhag, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Conception of cognitive interfaces for legal knowledge. Evolution of the JURISQUE project on the risk s of avalanches. Filipe Borges & Danièle Bourcier, Université de Paris, France, Evelyne Andreewsky, INSERM, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpétrière, France, Raoul Borges, France

A simple model to structure the information of parties in online ADR. Arno R. Lodder, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

15:35-16:05 Coffee

16:05-17:05 Paper session 7: Tools and Architectures

Using logic programming to model multi-agent Web legal systems – an application report. Paulo Quaresma and Irene Rodrigues: University of Évora, Portugal.

Tools for World Wide Web based legal decision support systems. Andrew Stranieri, La Trobe University, Australia, John Yearwood, University of Ballarat, Australia, John Zeleznikow, La Trobe University, Australia & University of Edinburgh, UK.

17:35-17:45 Closing Remarks

Friday, May 25

9:00-17:00 Workshop

Workshop on AI and Legal Evidence.
Organisers: Ron A. Shapira, Peter Tillers, Giovanni Sartor.