ICAIL 2025: Call for Papers

I’m excited to share details about the upcoming 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2025), which will be held at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, Illinois, from June 16-20, 2025. This prestigious event, organized by the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), has been the leading global platform for AI and Law research since 1987, and the conference proceedings will be published by ACM.

If you’re working in the AI and Law space, this is your opportunity to showcase your work on a global stage.

Topics of Interest

The conference covers a wide range of topics at the intersection of AI and Law. Some key areas include:

Legal Text Mining (e.g., argument mining, classification, summarization)
Computable Legal Rules and domain-specific languages for the law
Deep Learning and AI techniques applied to legal data
Decision Support Systems and Dialog Systems in legal practice
AI in E-discovery, E-disclosure, and Legal Education
Explainable AI for legal applications
Smart Contracts, Blockchain, and legal compliance systems
Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Generative AI in legal contexts
Visualization Techniques for legal information

Submission Guidelines

If you’re interested in contributing, here are the details:

Long Papers: Up to 10 pages (including references)
Short Papers: Up to 5 pages (including references)

The review process will be double-blind, so ensure your submissions are anonymized. It’s also highly recommended to share any code or data used in your research for reproducibility.

Deadline for submission: January 17, 2025

Make sure to use the ACM sigconf template for formatting. Any papers that don’t meet formatting or anonymity standards will be rejected without review.

Workshops & Tutorials

ICAIL 2025 will also host workshops and tutorials to encourage informal discussions and interactive learning. These are excellent opportunities to dive deep into specific topics in AI and Law.

Proposals are due by December 6, 2024.

Demonstrations

If you’re working on practical AI tools or applications in the legal field, there will be a session for demonstrations. You can either submit a two-page abstract or register your interest if it’s connected to a paper submission.

Demo submission deadline: January 24, 2025

Doctoral Consortium

There will also be a Doctoral Consortium where Ph.D. researchers can exchange ideas and get feedback from established experts in AI and Law. Details on this will be provided separately.

Awards

There will be three key awards presented at ICAIL 2025:

Donald H. Berman Award for Best Student Paper
Carole Hafner Award for Best Paper
Peter Jackson Award for Best Innovative Application Paper

Key Dates

Workshop and Tutorial Proposals: December 6, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline: January 17, 2025
Demo Submission Deadline: January 24, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: April 14, 2025
Camera-Ready Papers Due: May 5, 2025
Conference Dates: June 16–20, 2025

For detailed submission guidelines and updates, visit here.