Seminar on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning
Sample
Paper Topics – Version 1.0
Kevin D. Ashley
University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Graduate Program in Intelligent
Systems
AI &
Law in the Era of Cognitive Computing
Proposal for applying IBM Watson Developer Cloud to
[a particular kind of legal practice]
How IBM’s Watson or Debater Can Assist Lawyers
Can IBM’s Watson Pass a Bar Exam?
Proposal for applying Cognitive Computing to Model
[Corporate contracts, License Agreements…]
Improving
Legal Information Retrieval and Legal Research
Toward a Personal Research Assistant for Attorneys
Toward Using Case Networks to Improve Legal
Research
Toward Applying AI Techniques for Improving Legal
Research
Toward Applying AI Techniques in Patent Searches
Can Computers “Learn” to “Read” Legal Texts?
Toward Applying Information Extraction Techniques
to Legal Texts
Toward Building Question-Answering Programs for
Legal Domains
Organizing Manual Annotation of Legal Texts
Pedagogical Uses of Manual Annotation of Legal
Texts
AI &
Law Applications in Specific Legal Domains
Application of Artificial Intelligence to Patent
Law Searches
Applying AI to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Case Database
How Can AI Help Practitioners Deal with
International Conventions? (e.g., UN Convention on
Sales)
The problem of cross-language translation of legal
texts
How Can AI Model Legal Planning?
Toward Modeling the Role of Factors in [Law
Generally, Copyright Law, Trademark Law, Criminal Law, …
Can an AI & Law System Help Police Apply the
Law?
General
AI & Law
Critique of [some AI and Law approach in the
syllabus]
Proposal for improving upon [some AI and law
approach in the syllabus]
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?
Legal Decisionmaking
What do juries do? Cognitive
Models of a
Methods for Predicting Outcomes of Legal Disputes
or of Legal Cases
Methods for Assisting Lawyers’ Settlement Decisions
Applying Game Theory to Legal Disputes
Modeling the Role of Narrative in Individual Juror
Cognitive Decision Making
How Lawyers Think
The Role of Explanation in
Legal [Decisionmaking, Prediction]
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
Teaching Argumentation Skills in Legal Education
Modeling
Legal Argument
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
Dealing with Uncertainty in Legal Argument
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? Making Law
Accessible to the Governed? On-Line Dispute Resolution?
Electronic Contracting? Legal Clinics?]
Applying Data Mining in Legal Contexts
AI Models of Contract Formation
Can there be a Legal Semantic Web?
Automating Corporate Compliance
Legal
Issues Concerning AI Programs
Legal Liability of AI & Law Systems
Legal and Ethical Issues Concerning Autonomous
Systems
Intellectual Property Issues of AI & Law
Programs
Who Owns What When AI Programs Create?
When Should AI Agents Have Ethical/Legal Rights?
Robots and the Law
Robot Ethics
Artificially Intelligent Agents and the Law
Legal Issues for AI in Electronic Communications
Surveillance
Survey of Patents Issued for AI Programs and Legal
Issues Raised
Can AI & Law Systems Legally Practice Law?
Legal
Philosophy and AI & Law
[Jurisprudential
Scholar]’s Model of Reasoning with Precedents--Can it Be Computational?
(e.g., Max Radin, Karl
Llewellyn, Edward Levi, Cass Sunstein, Neil MacCormick & Robert Summers...)
[Jurisprudential
Scholar]’s Model of Statutory Interpretation--Can it Be Computational?
(e.g., Karl Llewellyn, Cass Sunstein,
Neil MacCormick & Robert Summers, Justice Scalia)
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 AI Can Facilitate
Comparative Law?
How Do Civil Law
Attorneys Reason with Cases?
How Do Civil Law
Attorneys Deal with Common Law Problems?