Seminar on Artificial
Intelligence and
Sample
Paper Topics
I.
Legal Philosophy and AI & Law
[Jurisprudential
Scholar]’s Model of
Reasoning with Precedents--Can it Be Made to Compute?
(e.g., Max Radin, Karl Llewellyn, Edward Levi...)
[Jurisprudential
Scholar]’s Model of
Statutory Interpretation--Can it Be Made to Compute?
(e.g., Karl Llewellyn, Cass Sunstein)
Toward
Modeling the Uses of Hypotheticals in Legal
Reasoning.
How do
Lawyers Reason with Principles and Policies -- Ramifications for AI
Jurisprudence
and [Quine’s
Theory of Indeterminacy of Translation] or [Lakatos’s
Heuristic Methods for Mathematical Discovery] [etc.]
A
Comparison of Reasoning with Cases in Law and Ethics
How Can
AI Facilitate Comparative Law?
Is Law
an Ill-defined Domain and What does that Mean for AI
and Law?
How Do
Civil Law Attorneys Reason with Cases?
How Do
Civil Law Attorneys Deal with Common Law Problems?
II.
General AI & Law
Critique
of [some AI and Law Approach]
Proposal
for improving upon [some AI and Law Approach]
Proposal
for an AI system to [Perform some Legal Task]
Does
the Legal System Learn and How?
Machine
Learning Systems in AI and Law?
What
are Ontologies and Why Does AI and Law Need Them?
III.
Legal Decisionmaking
What do
juries do? Cognitive Models of a
Predicting
the Outcomes of Legal Disputes or of Legal Cases
Jurimetrics
and AI--What has changed?
Game
theory and settling lawsuits.
Individual
Juror Cognitive Decision Making
Statistical
Predictions of Case Outcomes versus Legal Reasoning
Artificial
Intelligence and Expert Systems in the Field of Law
Thinking
About How Lawyers Think: a Critique of the Application
of Artificial Intelligence to Law
What is
the Role of Explanation in Legal Decisionmaking?
What is
the Role of Explanation in Legal Prediction?
IV.
AI & Law Applications in Specific Legal Domains
Application
of Artificial Intelligence Computer Systems to Patent Law Practice and
Operations at the
Rules,
Cases and the Federal Securities Laws
Leases,
Secured Transactions, and the Dimensional Modeling of Case-Based Argument
Artificial
Intelligence, Stereotypes and the Law
Cop
Law: The Problem of Judicial Reality for Expert Systems
Tort
Adjudication and the Emergence of Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Issues for American Tort Law
Analysis
of the Uses of Cases and Factors in Criminal Law
How Can
AI Help Practitioners Deal with International Conventions? (e.g., UN Convention
on Sales)
Why is
Legal Planning So Hard for AI and Law?
V.
Improving Legal Information Retrieval and Legal Research
Toward
a Personal Research Assistant for Attorneys
Toward
Using Computerized Case Networks to Improve Legal Research
Toward
Applying AI Techniques for Improving Legal Research
Toward
Applying AI Techniques in Patent Searches
When
Will Computers Ever “Learn” to “Read” Legal Texts?
Toward
Applying Information Extraction Techniques to Legal Texts
Toward
Building Question-Answering Programs for Legal Domains
Toward
a Semantic Web for Law
Applying
AI to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Case Database
VI.
Legal Education and Cognitive Science, AI, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
The Use
of the Case Method in Legal Education
Comparing
the Case Methods in Law and Business Classrooms
What
Law Students Should Learn and How to Measure It
Designing
Multiple Choice Tests for
Teaching
Argumentation Skills in Legal Education
VII.
Modeling Legal Argument
Dimensional
Analysis in Legal Domains
Computer
Generation of Argument: A Categorization of Arguments in Supreme Court Briefs
Modeling
Legal Argument as a Game
Game
Theory and Legal Argument
Modeling
Legal Argument with “Critical Questions”
Modeling
Role of Principles and Policies in Legal Argument
Dialogue
Models for Legal Argument
VIII.
AI in E-Commerce, E-Government & Legal Practice
Artificial
Intelligence in the Private Law Firm
Just
Say Normalize: Flowcharts for Making Legal Texts Intelligible
Is
there a Role for AI in E-Government?
Is
there a Role for AI and Law in Making Law Accessible to the Governed?
Is
there a Role for AI in On-Line Dispute Resolution?
Applying
Data Mining in Legal Contexts
Is
there a Role for AI in Electronic Contracting?
AI
Models of Contract Formation
IX.
Legal Issues Concerning AI Programs
Legal
Issues of Liability in connection with Expert Systems.
Intellectual
Property Issues of AI Programs
Who
Owns What When AI Programs Create?
When
Should AI Agents Have Ethical/Legal Rights?
Robots
and the Law
Legal
Issues of AI in Electronic Communications Surveillance
Survey
of Patents Issued for AI Programs and Legal Issues Raised