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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest
Subject: Re: Query: Legal Reasoning in AI
Summary: ICAIL'87, Northeastern U., Boston, May 1987
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Date: 2 Mar 88 18:52:41 GMT
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In article <8802221953.AA23125@spp3.SPP> spp3!gpearson (Glen Pearson) writes:
>I heard of a conference on legal reasoning using AI techniques, but
>I don't remember the time or place.  Can anyone out there give me
>details?

This was the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
and Law, held at Northeastern University in Boston, May 1987.
Carole Hafner of Northeastern was the local organizer. The proceedings
were published by the ACM (they were available for the conference).
Quite a range of papers was presented. (Mine was on programming the
Income Tax Act in Prolog.)

There were also two conferences held at the University of
Houston in 1984 and 1985, called the First and Second Annual
Conferences on Law and Technology.  They were organized by
Charles Walter.  The papers from the first conference were
published by West Publishing Company (St. Paul, Minn.) as
"Computing Power and Legal Reasoning", (Charles Walter, ed.),
1985, 871pp.  The papers from the second conference were never
published and can be found, as far as I know, only in the hands
of the people who attended.  (Some of them are labelled "draft -
not for publication or attribution".)

The West publication and the proceedings of the 1987 conference,
between them, are a pretty thorough overview of what's happening
in the world of AI and law.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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