Scope
Artificial intelligence and law is a field of study and research, which has been established since long and deals with all the possible applications of artificial intelligence to the world of law. Traditionally, this field has mainly concerned the forms of legal reasoning, the formation of legal knowledge, and the decision-making processes inherent to the legal domain.

However, recent developments in artificial intelligence have also affected this area of study and research. Increasingly, artificial intelligence is no longer defined with close reference to the notion of human intelligence, consciousness, and alike, but is considered as a growing resource of interactive, autonomous, and self-learning agency. As a smart form of agency, AI has even a greater potential to affect and reshape law, while raising legal, technical, and ethical issues, which affect human autonomy, self-determination, and responsibility.

Furthermore, since AI is gradually more fueled by data, these issues are predominantly rooted in data collection, retention and management. This raises key questions and challenges that require full examination and discussion, since they deeply affect the future trends of law.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 Formal and computational models of legal knowledge
 Models of legal reasoning
 Artificial intelligent systems in the legal domain
 Automation and decision-making process
 Machine learning and data mining
 Artificial intelligence and litigation
 Predictive coding
 Autonomous and self-learning agency
 Ethics of artificial intelligence


Important Deadlines
Deadline for full paper submission (extended): 20th May, 2024
Notification of acceptance: 20th June, 2024
Camera-Ready papers: 15th July, 2024
Conference: 3-6 September 2024

Submissions
Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS series (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity.
All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA’2024 submission Website (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2024) selecting the track AIL - Artificial Intelligence and Law

Thematic Track Organizers
Pedro Miguel Freitas, pfreitas@ucp.pt, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Massimo Durante, massimo.durante@unito.it, Department of Law – University of Turin
Ugo Pagallo, ugo.pagallo@unito.it, Dept. of Law, Univ. of Turin
Paulo Novais, pjon@di.uminho.pt, University of Minho