Workshop W1. Monday, May 21, 2001, 2:00 p.m. 5:45 p.m.

Legal Knowledge Systems in Action: Practical AI in Today's Law Offices

http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/henry/workshop1.html

Organizers:

  • Dennis Kennedy, Thompson Coburn, LLP, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  • Marc Lauritsen, Capstone Practice Systems, Inc., Harvard, MA and AmeriCounsel.com, Needham, MA USA
  • Anja Oskamp, Computer/Law Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

    The aim of this workshop is to create a forum for the practical discussion of real-world AI and knowledge management applications by both researchers and practitioners: those who research the possible applications of AI in the legal field, those who actually develop AI tools for legal practice, and those who use (or might use) them. The workshop will include presentations of papers, demonstrations of tools, and a panel discussion with audience participation. Researchers in the field of AI and law, lawyers, publishers, companies that develop specific tools for law practice, consultants, law firm CIOs and law firm administrators are invited to contribute, participate and attend.

    Workshop W2. Friday, May 25, 2001, 9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m.

    AI and Legal Evidence

    http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/henry/workshop2.html

    Organizers:

  • Ron A. Shapira (chair), Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
  • Peter Tillers, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York
  • Giovanni Sartor, Faculty of Law, University of Bologna, and School of Law, University of Belfast

    This workshop is intended to bring together legal scholars and AI researchers interested in computational models of evidential reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty in evidential reasoning and evidence-gathering and investigation algorithms and advanced technologies. The workshop will be informal, aiming to bring different communities together, in order to identify common research interests and opportunities for interdisciplinary research.