CALL FOR PAPERS

Artificial Intelligence and Law
Thematic track of the 24th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(EPIA 2025)
October 1-3, 2025
University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, Faro, Portugal

Webpage: https://epia2025.ualg.pt/

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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.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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• Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2025 (AoE)
• Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025
• Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2025 (AoE)
• Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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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
• Interactive, autonomous and self-learning agency
• Ethics of artificial intelligence

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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* All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2025 EasyChair submission page.
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=epia2025
* The papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNAI format, with a maximum of 12 pages. However, you should consider any track-specific details in your submission.
* Accept papers will be included in the conference proceedings as long as at least one author is registered in EPIA 2025 by the early bird registration deadline.
* EPIA 2025 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, and Google Scholar.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Pedro Miguel Freitas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Ugo Pagallo, University of Torino, taly
Massimo Durante, University of Torino, Italy
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho