Special Issue of the journal Artificial Intelligence on "AI & Law"

Edwina L. Rissland, Kevin D. Ashley, R.Prescott Loui
2001 Artificial Intelligence  
The field of AI & Law uses concepts and tools from artificial intelligence to investigate the law, with the twin goals of better understanding legal reasoning and building tools to support tasks in law. General topics addressed in AI & Law include: • investigation of legal reasoning and argumentation using computational methods; • applications of AI and advanced information technology to support legal practice and legal education; • development and exploration of techniques from AI using law as
more » ... the example domain. For instance, AI & Law investigations of legal argumentation have employed techniques from the AI specialties of case-based reasoning, deontic logic, and nonmonotonic reasoning. Early investigations of legal argumentation contributed to the birth of the AI specialty of Case-Based Reasoning. Results of this work have been applied in intelligent tutoring systems that teach law students how to argue with cases. Recent work has tackled the problem of making retrieval of legal information more intelligent by combining AI techniques with those from information retrieval. Over the years, many projects have employed techniques from logic and rule-based reasoning to build computational models and practical tools for areas of administrative and regulatory law. Other projects have explored the very nature of legal rules. The legal domain has been used as an example for the study of concept drift, concept learning, and reasoning by example. The AI & Law community includes legal scholars, philosophers of jurisprudence, as well as AI researchers. A vibrant international community, it has been meeting on a regular basis since 1987, when the first International Conference on AI and Law was held in Boston. In this issue, we seek papers on a variety of topics that showcase the visions and accomplishments of the field of AI & Law. Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not restricted to: • computational models of legal reasoning and argumentation; • legal knowledge-based systems; • case-based legal reasoning; 0004-3702/2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. PII: S 0 0 0 4 -3 7 0 2 ( 0 1 ) 0 0 0 8 1 -9
doi:10.1016/s0004-3702(01)00081-9 fatcat:gudo4ljwrvbwjajob64mpwsmby