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.