Friday, 20 June 2025, 9-17 hours
20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2025)
Chicago at Northwestern University, June 16 to 20, 2025 + online (videos + Q&A, Link on registration or request
The Multilingual Workshop on AI & Law Research was started as a reach out to non-English speaking communities worldwide, in particular Spanish and Portuguese, to present and discuss on-going research. In later years, it has developed as a platform for multilingual research in AI & law, in particular Large Linguistic Models and knowledge representation techniques of linking various legal text corpora in different legal systems. Organisers: Erich Schweighofer, Cesar Serbena, Stefan Eder and Fernando Galindo.
Programme (as of 15 June 2025)
Time: 09:00-18:00 (Chicago Time) = 14:00-23:00 UTC (GMT) (London) = 16:00-24:00 CEST (Summer Time) (Vienna)
Room: RB339
09:00-09:05 – Opening remarks: Stefan Eder, Cesar Serbena, Erich Schweighofer
09:05-10:00 – Invited talks – Session Ia
Chaired by Stefan Eder
Knowledge Representation in Multilingual Legal Systems: Challenges and Solutions, Erich Schweighofer
The Rise and Fall of Legal Logic, Diogo Sasdelli
10:00-10:30 – Session Ib
Chaired by Stefan Eder
Lex Rosetta Revisited: Evaluation of Large Language Models for Functional Segmentation of Legal Documents, Jaromir Savelka and Hannes Westermann
10:30-11:00 Coffee, tea, air etc. break
11:00-13:00 Session II
Chaired by Cesar Serbena and Erich Schweighofer
Automated Generation of Logical Rules from Legal Text Corpora, Felix Schmautzer, Stefan Eder, Björn Lellmann and Erich Schweighofer; presentation by Felix Schmautzer and Stefan Eder
Normative Systems Restrict E-Morality, Elena Lisanyuk and Nina Perova
Can an AI be conscious? A discussion of Roger Penrose’s approach to this question, Cesar Serbena
100% Digital Justice in Brazil: Quality of Jurisdictional Services with the Support of Artificial Intelligence, José Renato Gaziero Cella and Lia Loana Curial Oliva
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:30 Session III
Chaired by Erich Schweighofer and Cesar Serbena
The ANPD and Networked Governance: The Application of the LGPD in the Meta Platforms Case, José Renato Gaziero Cella, Alan Stafforti and Liz Mosele Tonin
Methodology for Teaching Artificial Intelligence in Undergraduate Law Programs: A Case Study at the Federal University of Paraná, Aline Macohin and Cesar Antonio Serbena
Hallucinating Justice: Ethical and Regulatory Frameworks for Large Language Models in Multilingual Judicial Contexts, Gustavo Rabay and José Renato Gaziero Cella
Tax Big Brother and Artificial Intelligence, André da Costa Ribeiro and José Renato Gaziero Cella
15:30-16:00 Coffee, tea, air etc. break
16:00-17:00 Session IV
Chaired by Cesar Serbena
Voting, Electronic Ballot Box, Artificial Intelligence and Disinformation in Brazil, Daniele Lopes Silveira and José Renato Gaziero Cella
Artificial Intelligence and E-Government in Egypt, Mohamed Shawky Abd El Razeq Helal and Erich Schweighofer
Closing Remarks: Cesar Serbena and Erich Schweighofer
Proceedings of the Workshop
Pre-Proceedings will be distributed as a PDF file to participants and speakers. Link – pre-proceedings: … [password protected]
Proceedings will be published in the IRIS-Journal and in Jusletter IT.
Formatting instructions, in particular for the proceedings:
Dates
15 May 2025: Submission of draft papers (at least 4 pages) and extended abstracts in English (2 papes). The submission period has been extended until 20 May 2025; individual deadlines can be negotiated.
25 May 2025: Notification of acceptance
12 June 2025: Submission of (nearly) final version of paper
20 June 2025, Chicaco, IL, USA: Workshop
Submission of Abstracts
Conference system Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/conf=mwail25
Requests and Information
Erich Schweighofer, erich.schweighofer@univie.ac.at (English, German, French)
Cesar Serbena, cserbena@gmail.com (Portuguese)
Fernando Galindo cfa@unizar.es (Spanish)
Stefan Eder, Stefan.eder@benn-ibler.com (English, German)Workshop Organisers:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Erich Schweighofer
University of Vienna, Group Legal Informatics / Arbeitsgruppe Rechtsinformatik / WZRI Vienna Centre for Computers and Law
Schottenbastei 10-16/2/5, 1010 Wien AT, Tel. +43 1 4277 35305, Erich.Schweighofer@univie.ac.at, rechtsinformatik.univie.ac.at
Erich Schweighofer is Professor of Legal Informatics, International Law and European Law & Head of the Centre of Legal Informatics at the University of Vienna (http://rechtsinformatik.univie.ac.at) . He has over thirty years experience of funded research in legal informatics. He holds degrees in law, informatics, economics and international relations.
His technical background includes all aspects of law in the knowledge society, in particular legal retrieval systems, legal ontologies, semiautomatic text analysis and document categorisation, digital forensic, electronic signatures etc. He was head or local co-ordinator of many research projects.
He has chaired the legal informatics groups in Germany (GI Gesellschaft für Informatik) and Austria (OCG Austrian Computer Society) and is now co-chair of the section for legal and administrative informatics of the GI. Every year, he organizes the well-known Legal Informatics Conference IRIS (iris-conferences.eu).
He is a regular participant at ICAIL conferences since 1993, speaker, workshop organiser, and PC member.
Prof. Dr. Cesar Antonio SERBENA
Law School, Federal University of Parana, Brazil, cserbena@gmail.com, www.ejustica.ufpr.br
Cesar Serbena is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Federal University of Parana, Brazil. Has experience in teaching Law, focusing on Philosophy of Law, acting on the following subjects: e-justice, legal language, deontic logic, epistemology, analysis of legal reasoning. He is coordinator of the Research Groups: e-Justice UFPR and Foundations of Law.
His international experience has focussed on legal theory and philosophy and e-justice, closely related to AI & law research.
Prof. Dr. Fernando GALINDO Ayuda
Universidad de Zaragoza, Departamento de Derecho Penal, Filosofía del Derecho e Historia del Derechocfa@unizar.es
Prof. Dr. Fernando GALINDO Ayuda is a Full Professor of Legal Philosophy (catedrático) at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is a professor since 1985, teaching legal philosophy, computers and law, ethics and law for engineers. He is one of the main network organisers in legal informatics, well-known for being the co-ordinator of research networks in computers and law, supported by the European Commission. He was the project leader of many projects, in particular FESTE, AEQUITAS and „Legal Network for Information Society“ (LEFIS).
In the 1980s and 1990s, he researched on AI & Law & legal theory, together with the University of Linz and Queen’s University of Belfast (Irlanda del Norte).
His international experience has focussed on legal theory and philosophy and e-signatures, closely related to AI & law research.
Adjuct Prof. Dr. Stefan Eder, Managing Partner Benn-Ibler Law Firm
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Adjuct Prof. Dr. Stefan Eder is a lawyer and partner at Benn-Ibler Rechtsanwälte GmbH, an Austrian law firm with clients around the globe. He focuses, among other things, on IT law and data protection and has advised corporates and private clients on IT-related issues for more than 30 years.
Aside from the law he also studied business informatics which gives him a sound technological background and helps him building a bridge between the worlds of IT and law.
Aside from the law he also studied business informatics which gives him a sound technological background and helps him building a bridge between the worlds of IT and law.
He regularly lectures on various aspects of technology and the law, both at the Technical University of Vienna and at the Vienna University for Economics and Business.
He strongly participates in the international communities in legal informatics, in particular ICAIL, JURIX, Cyberspace and IRIS. He is a co-chair of IRIS and chair of ReMeP.
He is also invested in a few companies that are active in the legal tech arena. He mentors a number of legaltech start-ups and as the founder of the Viennese chapter of the Legal Hackers he aims to promote the research and development of creative solutions at the interface between IT and the law.
Programme Committee (see CfP)