hafner@CORWIN.CCS.NORTHEASTERN.EDU (05/01/87)
The First
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
May 27-29, 1987
Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115
Sponsored by:
The Center for Law and Computer Science,
Northeastern University
In Cooperation with ACM SIGART
Registration: Ms. Rita Laffey, (617) 437-3346
Information: Prof. Carole Hafner (617) 437-5116
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
WEDNESDAY, May 27
8:30-12:30 Tutorials
A. "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (for lawyers)"
Prof. Edwina L. Rissland, University of Massachusetts and
Harvard Law School
B. "Applying Artificial Intelligence to Law: Opportunities
and Challenges"
Profs. Donald H. Berman and Carole D. Hafner, Northeastern
University
2:00-2:30 Welcome; Opening Remarks.
2:30-4:00 Legal Expert Systems I
2:30 "Expert Systems in Law: Out of the Research Laboratory and
into the Marketplace"
Richard E. Susskind
Ernst & Whinney, London, England
3:00 "Expert Systems in Law: The DataLex Project"
Graham Greenleaf, Andrew Mowbray and Alan L. Tyree
University of Sydney, Australia
3:30 "Explanation for an Expert System that Performs Estate
Planning"
Dean A. Schlobohm and Donald A. Waterman
Stanford University, The Rand Corporation
4:00-4:30 Coffee
4:30-6:00 Conceptual Legal Retrieval Systems I
4:30 "Conceptual Legal Document Retrieval Using the RUBRIC System"
Richard M. Tong, Clifford A. Reid, Peter R. Douglas and
Gregory J. Crowe
Advanced Decision Systems
5:00 "Conceptual Organization of Case Law Knowledge Bases"
Carole D. Hafner
Northeastern University
5:30 "Designing Text Retrieval Systems for Conceptual Searching"
Jon Bing
Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law
6:30-8:30 Welcoming Reception, Northeastern U. Faculty Center
THURSDAY, May 28
9:00-10:30 Models of Legal Reasoning I
9:00 "A Process Specification of Expert Lawyer Reasoning"
D. Peter O'Neil
Harvard Law School
9:30 "A Case-Based System for Trade Secrets Law"
Edwina L. Rissland and Kevin D. Ashley
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
10:00 "But, See, Accord: Generating Blue Book Citations in HYPO"
Kevin D. Ashley and Edwina L. Rissland
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30 Legal Expert Systems II
11:00 "A Natural Language Based Legal Expert System for
Consultation and Tutoring -- The LEX Project"
F. Haft, R.P. Jones and Th. Wetter
IBM Heidelberg Scientific Centre, West Germany
11:30 "The Application of Expert Systems Technology to
Case-Based Law"
J.C. Smith and Cal Deedman
University of British Columbia
12:00 "Some Problems in Designing Expert Systems to Aid Legal
Reasoning"
Layman E. Allen and Charles S. Saxon
The University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Panel: "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Legal
System"
Moderator: Cary G. DeBessonet, Law and Artificial Intelligence
Project, Louisiana State Law Institute
3:00-4:00 Conceptual Legal Retrieval Systems II
3:00 "Conceptual Retrieval and Case Law"
Judith P. Dick
University of Toronto
3:30 "A Connectionist Approach to Conceptual Information
Retrieval"
Richard K. Belew
University of California, San Diego
4:00-4:30 Coffee
4:30-6:00 Expert Systems and Tax Law
4:30 "A PROLOG Model of the Income Tax Act of Canada"
David M. Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
5:00 "An Expert System for Screening Employee Pension Plans for
the Internal Revenue Service"
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Gary Grady and Ramesh S. Patil
5:30 "Handling of Significant Deviations from Boilerplate Text"
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Gary Morris, Keith Taylor and Maury Harwood
7:00 Reception and Banquet, The Colonnade Hote
Banquet Address: Non-Monotonic Reasoning
Prof. John McCarthy, Stanford University
FRIDAY, May 29
9:00-10:30 Applications of Deontic Logic
9:00 "Legal Reasoning in 3-D"
Marvin Belzer
University of Georgia
9:30 "On the Relationship Between Permission and Obligation"
Andrew J.I. Jones
University of Oslo, Norway
10:00 "System = Program + Users + Law"
Naftaly H. Minsky and David Rozenshtein
Rutgers University
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30 Legal Expert Systems III
11:00 "Support for Policy Makers: Formulating Legislation with
the Aid of Logical Models"
T.J.M. Bench-Capon
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
11:30 "Logic Programming for Large Scale Applications in Law:
A Formalisation of Supplementary Benefit Legislation"
T.J.M. Bench-Capon, G.O. Robinson, T.W. Routen and
M.J. Sergot
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
12:00 "Knowledge Representation in DEFAULT: An Attempt to Classify
General Types of Knowledge Used by Legal Experts"
Roger D. Purdy
University of Akron
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Panel: Modeling the Legal Reasoning Process: Formal and Computational
Approaches
Moderator: Prof. L. Thorne McCarty, Rutgers University
3:00-4:00 Models of Legal Reasoning II
3:00 "Precedent-Based Legal Reasoning and Knowledge Acquisition
in Contract Law: A Process Model"
Seth R. Goldman, Michael G. Dyer and Margot Flowers
University of California, Los Angeles
3:30 "Reasoning about 'Hard' Cases in Talmudic Law"
Steven S. Weiner
Harvard Law School, MIT
4:00-4:30 Coffee
4:30-6:00 Legal Knowledge Representation
4:30 "OBLOG-2: A Hybrid Knowledge Representation System for
Defeasible Reasoning"
Thomas F. Gordon
GMD, Sankt Augustin, West Germany
5:00 "ESPLEX: A Rule and Conceptual Model for Representing
Statutes"
Carlo Biagioli, Paola Mariani and Daniela Tiscornia
Instituto per la Documentazione Giuridica, Florence, Italy
6:00 "Legal Data Modeling: The Prohibited Transaction Exemption
Analyst"
Keith Bellairs
Computer Law Systems, Inc.