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What does it mean for an AI system to be competent in law, and how can such competence be built, evaluated, and validated, so that it generalizes across legal systems while enabling equitable access to justice?
What does it mean for an AI system to be competent in law, and how can such competence be built, evaluated, and validated, so that it generalizes across legal systems while enabling equitable access to justice?
AI for Legal Reasoning
AI for Legal Reasoning
AI Evaluation in Law
AI Evaluation in Law
AI for Access to Justice
AI for Access to Justice
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
We invite submissions on the intersection of artificial intelligence and law, focusing on the three core themes:
AI for Legal Reasoning
Long-form legal reasoning, argumentation, and application of law to facts
Issue spotting, rule interpretation, structured inference, and tool use
Domain knowledge, retrieval, and supervision for legal tasks
AI Evaluation for Law
Evaluation of legal reasoning quality, doctrinal correctness, and factual alignment
Benchmarks, datasets, and robustness in high-stakes legal settings
Cross-jurisdiction and multilingual evaluation, validation, and comparability
AI for Access to Justice
AI systems that help people understand and exercise their legal rights
Human-AI collaboration in legal workflows, self-help tools, and legal service
Fairness, inclusion, accessibility, and the societal impact of legal AI
Submission Guidelines
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be max. 8 pages (excluding references and appendices)
Papers must follow the ICML 2026 formatting guidelines
Submissions must be anonymous and will undergo double-blind review
All submissions must be made via OpenReview
Submissions previously published at archival venues will only be considered for the non-archival track.
Important Dates (AoE)
Important Dates (AoE)
⏰ Submission deadline: May 22th, 2026
⏰ Author notification: June 19th, 2026
Speakers
Speakers
Elliott Ash
Elliott Ash
Associate Professor
ETH Zurich
Peter Henderson
Peter Henderson
Assistant Professor
Princeton University
Panelists
Panelists
AI for Legal Reasoning
AI for Legal Reasoning
Yansong Feng
Associate Professor Peking University
Alexander Hoyle
Postdoc
ETH Zurich
Yinya Huang
Postdoc
ETH Zurich
Wonseok Hwang
Assistant Professor
University of Seoul
Aniket Kesari
Associate Professor
Fordham University
AI Evaluations for Law
AI Evaluations for Law
Robert Mahari
Associate Director Stanford CodeX
Claire Barale
PhD
University of Edinburgh
Jingwei Ni
PhD
ETH Zurich
Joel Niklaus
Data Lead
Hugging Face
Dominik Stammbach
Postdoc
Princeton University
AI for Access to Justice
AI for Access to Justice
Benjamin Minhao Chen
Associate Professor University of Hong Kong
Daniel Katz
Professor of Law
Illinois Tech
Jakob Merane
Postdoc
ETH Zurich
Hai Jin Park
Professor
Hanyang University
Aurelia Tamo-Larrieux
Associate Professor University of Lausanne
The Schedule
The Schedule
08:00-08:10 Opening Remarks
08:10-08:50 Keynote 1
08:50-09:50 Panel 1: AI for Legal Reasoning
09:50-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10-11:10 Panel 2: AI Evaluation for Law
11:10-11:30 Contributed Talks 1
11:30-12:30 Lunch Break
12:30-13:30 Poster Session 1
13:30-14:10 Keynote 2
14:10-14:30 Contributed Talks 2
14:30-14:50 Coffee Break
14:50-15:50 Poster Session 2
15:50-16:50 Panel 3: AI for Access to Justice
16:50-17:00 Closing Remarks
Advisors & Organizers
(alphabetical order)
Advisors & Organizers
(alphabetical order)
Elliott Ash
Associate Professor ETH Zurich
Benjamin Minhao Chen
Associate Professor University of Hong Kong
Christoph Engel
Emeritus Professor
Max Planck Institute
Yu Fan
PhD
ETH Zurich
Fabio J. Fehr
Postdoc
University of Oxford
Yansong Feng
Associate Professor Peking University
Peter Henderson
Assistant Professor Princeton University
Alexander Hoyle
Postdoc
ETH Zurich
Yinya Huang
Postdoc
ETH Zurich
Wonseok Hwang
Assistant Professor
University of Seoul
Daniel Katz
Professor of Law
Illinois Tech
Aniket Kesari
Associate Professor
Fordham University
Robert Mahari
Associate Director Stanford CodeX
Jingwei Ni
PhD
ETH Zurich
Joel Niklaus
Data Lead
Hugging Face
Julian Nyarko
Professor
Stanford University
Hai Jin Park
Professor
Hanyang University
Dominik Stammbach
Postdoc
Princeton University
Aurelia Tamo-Larrieux
Associate Professor University of Lausanne
Yang Tian
PhD
University of Zurich
Frederike Zufall
T.-T. Professor Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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