ICAIL 2025: Call for Papers

The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2025) will be held in Chicago at Northwestern University, June 16 to 20, 2025.

Since 1987, ICAIL has been the foremost conference addressing research in Artificial Intelligence and Law. It is organized biennially by the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), in cooperation with the ACM-SIGAI and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Submission Types

ICAIL 2025 invites submissions for:

• Papers: For regular and special tracks.
• Technology Demonstrations: Showcasing creative, robust, and practical working applications and tools.
• Workshops and Tutorials: Proposals covering broad topics relevant to the AI and Law community.
• Doctoral Consortium: For current doctoral students to present and receive feedback on their research.

Topics of Interest

We invite submissions of original papers on Artificial Intelligence & Law, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems, and applications. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Argument mining on legal texts
• Classification and automatic summarization of legal text
• Computational methods for negotiation and contract formation
• Computer-assisted dispute resolution
• Computable representations of legal rules and domain specific languages for the law
• Decision support systems in the legal domain
• Deep learning on data and text from the legal domain
• Dialog systems in the legal domain
• e-discovery and e-disclosure
• e-government, e-democracy and e-justice
• Empirical research (quantitative and qualitative analysis) on the use of AI systems in legal practice
• Innovative applications in AI and Law
• Philosophical and legal-theoretical analysis of the significance and implications of AI methodologies and technical features concerning fundamental legal concepts and ethical issues
• Systems and methods designed for compliance checking with respect to normative principles, rules, and standards (legal or ethical)
• Methodologies for the technical design in AI systems of compliance with normative principles, rules, and standards of trustworthy or responsible AI
• Explainable AI for the legal domain
• Formal and computational models of legal reasoning (e.g., argumentation, case-based reasoning), including deontic logics
• Formal and conceptual modeling of fundamental legal concepts
• Formal and computational models of evidential reasoning
• Formal models of norms and norm-governed systems
• Information extraction from legal databases and texts
• Information retrieval, question answering, and literature recommendation in the legal domain
• Intelligent legal tutoring systems
• Intelligent support systems for forensics
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems
• Knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain, including related applications of natural language processing, argument, and data mining
• Knowledge representation, knowledge engineering, and ontologies in the legal domain
• Legal design involving AI techniques
• Machine learning and data analytics applied to the legal domain
• Natural language processing of legal text, including law-specific standard NLP tasks (e.g., Named Entity Recognition, Semantic Role Labeling, Translation, etc.)
• Applications of generative AI systems (LLMs) to the legal domain in connection to machine learning systems or knowledge representation systems
• Normative reasoning by autonomous agents
• Open and linked data in the legal domain
• Smart contracts and application of blockchain in the legal domain
• Visualization techniques for legal information and data

Paper Submission Guidelines

• Length: Long papers up to 10 pages (including references), short papers up to 5 pages (including references).
• Formatting: Papers must be formatted using the ACM sigconf template (for LaTeX) or the interim template layout.docx (for Word), available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template.
• Format: All papers should be converted to PDF prior to electronic submission.
• Submission Platform: Submissions can be made via the Conftool platform: https://www.conftool.net/icail2025/
• Code and Data Sharing: It is highly recommended that code and data be published alongside the papers to facilitate reproducibility. Program committee members will consider data and code sharing in their reviews.
• Preprints: Papers submitted must not be published as open access preprints before acceptance notifications. Papers already published as preprints must be flagged.
• Anonymity: Reviewing will be double-blind. Papers must not include author names, affiliations, or acknowledgments. Identifying text should be removed or rephrased. Authors must register on the Conftool system to receive an ID number to replace author names in the submitted paper.
• Rejection Criteria: Papers not adhering to page limitations or anonymity requirements may be rejected without review.

Workshops and Tutorials

• Proposals: Should be 2 to 4 pages and include topic, goals, significance, intended audience, publicity plans, format, expected length, and organizer details.
• Submission Deadline: December 20, 2024
• Note: Organizers must ensure all participants are registered for the ICAIL conference and be present at the conference location for in-person or hybrid events.

Demonstrations

• Submission: A two-page extended abstract about the system should be submitted for review if not connected to a submitted paper.
• Submission Deadline: January 28, 2025
• Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings.

Doctoral Consortium

• Eligibility: Current doctoral students with at least 8-12 months of work remaining.
• Submission: An original description of work (up to 10 pages, LNCS format, PDF) jointly with a maximum 3-page CV.
• Submission Deadline: April 23, 2025 (AoE)
• Focus: Research questions, problem identification, current knowledge, preliminary ideas, methodology, contribution, and differentiation from existing approaches.

Important Dates

Event	Date
Workshop and Tutorial Proposals Submission	Dec 20, 2024
Paper Submission	Jan 28, 2025
Demonstration Submission	Jan 28, 2025
Doctoral Consortium Submission	Apr 23, 2025
Notification of acceptance (Papers & Demonstrations)	Apr 24, 2025
Notification of acceptance (Doctoral Consortium)	Apr 30, 2025
Registration opens	Apr 24, 2025
Camera-Ready Copy Due	May 05, 2025
Conference Dates	June 16-20, 2025

Contact Information

For questions about the submission process, please contact: icail2025@conftool.net.

Committee

• Program Chair: Juliano Maranhão (University of São Paulo)
• Local Chair: Dan Linna (Northwestern University)
• Local Co-Chair: Kris Hammond (Northwestern University)
• IAAIL Secretary-Treasurer: Michał Araszkiewicz (Jagiellonian University)

Sponsors

For a full list of sponsors, please visit the Sponsors page.

Publication

The conference proceedings are published by ACM.