8:30-9:00
Registration (The Registration Desk will be open until 16:00)
building: Palazzo del Rettorato (Via Verdi, 8) [directions]
Morning Session
9:00-10.30
building: Palazzo del Rettorato (Via Verdi, 8) [directions]
room: Aula Magna (first floor)
building: Cavallerizza Reale (Via Verdi, 9) [directions]
room: Sala Multifunzione
Doctoral Consortium
building: Palazzo del Rettorato (Via Verdi, 8) [directions]
room: Sala Principe D'Acaja (ground floor)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:00
building: Palazzo del Rettorato (Via Verdi, 8) [directions]
room: Aula Magna (first floor)
building: Cavallerizza Reale (Via Verdi, 9) [directions]
room: Sala Multifunzione
Doctoral Consortium
building: Palazzo del Rettorato (Via Verdi, 8) [directions]
room: Sala Principe D'Acaja (ground floor)
13:00-14:00 Lunch (find some quick lunch spot suggestions here)
Afternoon Session
14:00-15:45
building: Palazzo del Rettorato (Via Verdi, 8) [directions]
room: Sala Principe D'Acaja (ground floor)
building: Complesso Aldo Moro (Via Verdi, 41) [directions]
room: Sala Lauree (third floor)
building: Cavallerizza Reale (Via Verdi, 9) [directions]
room: Sala Multifunzione
building: Palazzo del Rettorato (Via Verdi, 8) [directions]
room: Sala Principe D'Acaja (ground floor)
15:45-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:15
building: Palazzo del Rettorato (Via Verdi, 8) [directions]
room: Sala Principe D'Acaja (ground floor)
building: Complesso Aldo Moro (Via Verdi, 41) [directions]
room: Sala Lauree (third floor)
building: Cavallerizza Reale (Via Verdi, 9) [directions]
room: Sala Multifunzione
building: Palazzo del Rettorato (Via Verdi, 8) [directions]
room: Sala Principe D'Acaja (ground floor)
19:00-21:00 Welcome Drink Hotel NH Collection Torino Santo Stefano, Via Porta Palatina, 19, Torino
08:30-09:00 Registration building: Cavallerizza Reale (Via Verdi, 9) [directions]
09:00-09:30 Opening and Welcome Guido Boella, Réka Markovich, and Luigi Di Caro
09:30-11:00 Session I - ANALYTICS AND PREDICTION
Automated Creation of a Legal Knowledge Graph Addressing Cases of Violence Against Women (long)
Claudia D'Amato, Giuseppe Rubini, Francesco Didio, Donato Francioso, Fatima Zahra Amara and Nicola Fanizzi
Context-Aware Citation Networks: A Human–AI Dataset, Analysis, and Tool (long)
Jack Mumford, Francesco Florimonte, Katie Atkinson and Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou
PersonaMatrix: A Recipe for Persona-Aware Evaluation of Legal Summarization (long)
Tsz Fung Pang, Maryam Berijanian, Thomas Orth, Breanna Shi and Charlotte S. Alexander
From Data to Equity: Predicting and Auditing Fairness in Indian Bail Decisions (short)
Sneha Deshmukh and Prathmesh Kamble
Learning from the Judicial Journey: A Predictive Model for Case Disputability (short)
Ho-Chien Huang and Chao-Lin Liu
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:25 Keynote Marie-Francine Moens - An AI Tool as Judge? Hits and Misses of Current Technology
12:25-13:00 SESSION II - SEMANTIC WEB AND HYBRID AI
Unconstitutionality Prevention in Bills using Hybrid AI (long)
Michele Corazza, Pier Francesco Bresciani, Generoso Longo, Faria Ferooz, Salvatore Sapienza and Monica Palmirani
An Ontology-Driven Graph RAG for Legal Norms: A Hierarchical, Temporal, and Deterministic Approach (short)
Hudson De Martim
13:00-14:00 Lunch (find some quick lunch spot suggestions here)
14:00-15:30 SESSION III - FORMAL APPROACHES
Explaining Discretionary Judicial Decisions using Answer Set Programming (long)
Josephine Dik
Contrary-to-Duty Rights: From Hohfeld To Agreement Revision (long)
Huimin Dong, Leon van der Torre and Liuwen Yu
Validity Diagrams (long)
Diogo Sasdelli and Bianca Steffes
A Systematic Approach to Assess Languages Proposed for Rules as Code (short)
Sofia Ali, Giovanni Sileno and Tom van Engers
Accountability as a Software Engineering Tool for Multi-Agent Systems (short)
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Roberto Micalizio and Stefano Tedeschi
15:30-16:15 Coffee Break & Poster Session
16:15-18:20 SESSION IV - NLP SOLUTIONS
JuriDiscovery: Automated Analysis of Legal Disputes Triggered by Public Policies Using Artificial Intelligence. A Case Study Applied to the Individual Microentrepreneur (long)
Loreane Brandizzi and Guilherme Rodrigues
Machine Learning to Promote Self-Composition in Conflict Resolution: the Brazilian Concil-IA Project (long)
Isabela Sabo, Thiago Dal Pont, Aires Rover and Jomi Hubner
Label-Aware Contextual Retrieval for Few-Shot Legal Argument Mining (long)
Huihui Xu and Kevin Ashley
How Anonymous Is Anonymous? A Techno-Legal Exploration (long)
Stephanie von Maltzan, Daniel Vogel, Marc Ohm and Florian Idelberger
Segmentation and Processing of German Court Decisions from Open Legal Data (short)
Harshil Darji, Martin Heckelmann, Christina Kratsch and Gerard de Melo
PONK: Tool for Client-Oriented Legal Writing in Czech (short)
Tereza Novotná, Jan Černý, Ivan Kraus, Ivana Kvapilíková, Jiří Mírovský, Arnold Stanovský and Barbora Hladka
Automated Extraction of Judicial Interpretative Formulas in EU Case Law on VAT (short)
Giulia Grundler, Piera Santin, Alessia Fidangeli, Rachele Mignone, Federico Galli, Andrea Galassi, Giuseppe Contissa, Luigi Di Caro and Paolo Torroni
19.30 Gala Dinner Ristorante Esperia, Corso Moncalieri, 2 , Torino
08:30-09:00 Registration building: Cavallerizza Reale (Via Verdi, 9) [directions]
09:00-09:55 Keynote Tiago Cabral - EU AI Act – Regulatory Approach and Implementation Update
09:55-10:55 SESSION V - MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONS
A Self-Supervised Method for Legal Reference Resolution (short)
Šimon Horvát, Dávid Varga, Peter Gurský, Nicol Fedurcová, Samuel Baran and Zoltán Szoplák
Label Indeterminacy in AI & Law (short)
Cor Steging and Tadeusz Jerzy Zbiegień
Anomaly detection in legal text – a case study on cybersecurity contracts (short)
Pavol Sokol, Laura Bachňáková Rózenfeldová, Dávid Varga, Simona Rudohradská and Regina Hučková
Reinforcement Learning with Argument-Structured Reward for Court Decision Abstractive Summarization (short)
Yuntao Kong, Ye Xiong, Shuyuan Zheng and Ken Satoh
10:55-11:40 Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:40-13:10 SESSION VI - LLMS: FRONTIERS, VALIDATION, APPLICATIONS
Does ChatGPT Understand the Law? A Case Study on Road Homicide in Italy (long)
Grazia Garzo and Alessandro Palumbo
Can LLMs Create Legally Relevant Summaries and Analyses of Videos? (long)
Lyra Hoeben-Kuil, Gijs van Dijck, Jaromír Savelka, Johanna Gunawan, Konrad Kollnig, Marta Kołacz, Mindy Duffourc, Shashank Chakravarthy and Hannes Westermann
Which Neurons Nudge Normative Stance? Causal Tests and Mechanistic Evidence via Contrastive Last-Token Steering (long)
Davide Liga and Liuwen Yu
An Expert-Validated LLM Framework for Transforming Legal Procurement Texts into Actionable Data (short)
Ivan Spada, Roberto Nai, Davide Audrito, Vittoria Margherita Sofia Trifiletti and Emilio Sulis
From Court Decisions to Guiding Principles: Advancing Complex Legal Summarization with (short)
May Myo Zin, Ken Satoh and Georg Borges
13:10-14:00 Lunch (find some quick lunch spot suggestions here)
14:00-15:15 SESSION VII - LLMS FOR LEGAL AID AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE
A Two-Dimensional Evaluation Framework for Factual and Reasoning Assessment of LLMs in Legal Question Answering (long)
Sinan Gultekin, Matteo Rossi Reich, Elena Consiglio, Francesca Lagioia, Francesca Galloni, Giovanni Sartor and Sara Bagnato
That's So FETCH: Fashioning Ensemble Techniques for LLM Classification in Civil Legal Intake and Referral (long)
Quinten Steenhuis
A Multi-Agent AI Framework for Legal Aid: Real-World Interactive Dialogue in Case Consultations (long)
Ying-Chu Yu, Sieh-Chuen Huang and Hsuan-Lei Shao
EmoLawConnect: An AI-powered matching engine for professionals supporting family conflict resolution (short)
Kohei Oshio
15:15-16:30 SESSION VIII - PRECEDENTS: REASONING, THOERY, AND APPLICATIONS
Precedent as Interpretive Resource: A Case Frame Analysis of Statutory Reasoning (long)
Michał Araszkiewicz
The Result Model under Inconsistent Knowledge: Theory and Experiments (long)
Yoann Morello, Agata Ciabattoni and Morgan Gray
Do LLMs Truly Understand When a Precedent Is Overruled? (long)
Li Zhang, Jaromír Savelka and Kevin Ashley
Defending the Hierarchical Result Models of Precedential Constraint (short)
Henry Prakken and Wijnand van Woerkom
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:10 SESSION IX- LLMS AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Argumentative LLMs for Legal Information Entailment (long)
Charlie Lindsay, Francesca Toni, Tien Dat Nguyen, Tan Minh Nguyen, Ngoc Anh Trang Pham, Quang Huy Chu, Hoang Nhat Nguyen and Le-Minh Nguyen
Multilingual Legislative Definitions Retrieval and Generation using LLM and Agentic AI (long)
Leonardo Zilli, Michele Corazza, Monica Palmirani and Salvatore Sapienza
A Hohfeldian Knowledge Base for LLM-Assisted Legal Information Retrieval in Marine Biodiversity Law (short)
Rohan Nanda, Henrique Marcos, Hannes Westermann, and Julia Schutz Veiga
Comparison of Embedding Methods for Retrieval under Noisy Institutional Labels (short)
Tereza Novotná and Jakub Harašta
A Multi-Agent AI Framework for Legal Aid: Real-World Interactive Dialogue in Case Consultations
Ying-Chu Yu, Sieh-Chuen Huang and Hsuan-Lei Shao
A Two-Dimensional Evaluation Framework for Factual and Reasoning Assessment of LLMs in Legal Question Answering
Sinan Gultekin, Matteo Rossi Reich, Elena Consiglio, Francesca Lagioia, Francesca Galloni, Giovanni Sartor and Sara Bagnato
Argumentative LLMs for Legal Information Entailment
Charlie Lindsay, Francesca Toni, Tien Dat Nguyen, Tan Minh Nguyen, Ngoc Anh Trang Pham, Quang Huy Chu, Hoang Nhat Nguyen and Le-Minh Nguyen
Automated Creation of a Legal Knowledge Graph Addressing Cases of Violence Against Women
Claudia D'Amato, Giuseppe Rubini, Francesco Didio, Donato Francioso, Fatima Zahra Amara and Nicola Fanizzi
Can LLMs Create Legally Relevant Summaries and Analyses of Videos?
Lyra Hoeben-Kuil, Gijs van Dijck, Jaromír Savelka, Johanna Gunawan, Konrad Kollnig, Marta Kołacz, Mindy Duffourc, Shashank Chakravarthy and Hannes Westermann
Context-Aware Citation Networks: A Human–AI Dataset, Analysis, and Tool
Jack Mumford, Francesco Florimonte, Katie Atkinson and Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou
Contrary-to-Duty Rights: From Hohfeld To Agreement Revision
Huimin Dong, Leon van der Torre and Liuwen Yu
Do LLMs Truly Understand When a Precedent Is Overruled?
Li Zhang, Jaromír Savelka and Kevin Ashley
Does ChatGPT Understand the Law? A Case Study on Road Homicide in Italy
Grazia Garzo and Alessandro Palumbo
Explaining Discretionary Judicial Decisions using Answer Set Programming
Josephine Dik
How Anonymous Is Anonymous? A Techno-Legal Exploration
Stephanie von Maltzan, Daniel Vogel, Marc Ohm and Florian Idelberger
JuriDiscovery: Automated Analysis of Legal Disputes Triggered by Public Policies Using Artificial Intelligence. A Case Study Applied to the Individual Microentrepreneur
Loreane Brandizzi and Guilherme Rodrigues
Label-Aware Contextual Retrieval for Few-Shot Legal Argument Mining
Huihui Xu and Kevin Ashley
Machine Learning to Promote Self-Composition in Conflict Resolution: the Brazilian Concil-IA Project
Isabela Sabo, Thiago Dal Pont, Aires Rover and Jomi Hubner
Multilingual Legislative Definitions Retrieval and Generation using LLM and Agentic AI
Leonardo Zilli, Michele Corazza, Monica Palmirani and Salvatore Sapienza
PersonaMatrix: A Recipe for Persona-Aware Evaluation of Legal Summarization
Tsz Fung Pang, Maryam Berijanian, Thomas Orth, Breanna Shi and Charlotte S. Alexander
Precedent as Interpretive Resource: A Case Frame Analysis of Statutory Reasoning
Michał Araszkiewicz
That's So FETCH: Fashioning Ensemble Techniques for LLM Classification in Civil Legal Intake and Referral
Quinten Steenhuis
The Result Model under Inconsistent Knowledge: Theory and Experiments
Yoann Morello, Agata Ciabattoni and Morgan Gray
Unconstitutionality Prevention in Bills using Hybrid AI
Michele Corazza, Pier Francesco Bresciani, Generoso Longo, Faria Ferooz, Salvatore Sapienza and Monica Palmirani
Validity Diagrams
Diogo Sasdelli and Bianca Steffes
Which Neurons Nudge Normative Stance? Causal Tests and Mechanistic Evidence via Contrastive Last-Token Steering
Davide Liga and Liuwen Yu
A Hohfeldian Knowledge Base for LLM-Assisted Legal Information Retrieval in Marine Biodiversity Law
Rohan Nanda, Henrique Marcos, Hannes Westermann and Julia Schutz Veiga
A Self-Supervised Method for Legal Reference Resolution
Šimon Horvát, Dávid Varga, Peter Gurský, Nicol Fedurcová, Samuel Baran and Zoltán Szoplák
A Systematic Approach to Assess Languages Proposed for Rules as Code
Sofia Ali, Giovanni Sileno and Tom van Engers
Accountability as a Software Engineering Tool for Multi-Agent Systems
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Roberto Micalizio and Stefano Tedeschi
An Expert-Validated LLM Framework for Transforming Legal Procurement Texts into Actionable Data
Ivan Spada, Roberto Nai, Davide Audrito, Vittoria Margherita Sofia Trifiletti and Emilio Sulis
An Ontology-Driven Graph RAG for Legal Norms: A Hierarchical, Temporal, and Deterministic Approach
Hudson De Martim
Anomaly detection in legal text – a case study on cybersecurity contracts
Pavol Sokol, Laura Bachňáková Rózenfeldová, Dávid Varga, Simona Rudohradská and Regina Hučková
Automated Extraction of Judicial Interpretative Formulas in EU Case Law on VAT
Giulia Grundler, Piera Santin, Alessia Fidangeli, Rachele Mignone, Federico Galli, Andrea Galassi, Giuseppe Contissa, Luigi Di Caro and Paolo Torroni
Comparison of Embedding Methods for Retrieval under Noisy Institutional Labels
Tereza Novotná and Jakub Harašta
Defending the Hierarchical Result Models of Precedential Constraint
Henry Prakken and Wijnand van Woerkom
EmoLawConnect: An AI-powered matching engine for professionals supporting family conflict resolution
Kohei Oshio
From Court Decisions to Guiding Principles: Advancing Complex Legal Summarization with LLMs
May Myo Zin, Ken Satoh and Georg Borges
From Data to Equity: Predicting and Auditing Fairness in Indian Bail Decisions
Sneha Deshmukh and Prathmesh Kamble
Label Indeterminacy in AI & Law
Cor Steging and Tadeusz Jerzy Zbiegień
Learning from the Judicial Journey: A Predictive Model for Case Disputability
Ho-Chien Huang and Chao-Lin Liu
PONK: Tool for Client-Oriented Legal Writing in Czech
Tereza Novotná, Jan Černý, Ivan Kraus, Ivana Kvapilíková, Jiří Mírovský, Arnold Stanovský and Barbora Hladka
Reinforcement Learning with Argument-Structured Reward for Court Decision Abstractive Summarization
Yuntao Kong, Ye Xiong, Shuyuan Zheng and Ken Satoh
Segmentation and Processing of German Court Decisions from Open Legal Data
Harshil Darji, Martin Heckelmann, Christina Kratsch and Gerard de Melo
A GraphRAG Approach to Enhancing the Ability of Causal Reasoning in Autonomous Driving Cases
Jia Liu and Xingtong Chen
A Tool for Handling Unexpected Exceptions in Legal Reasoning
Thomas Ecobichon, Mathieu Carpentier, Sylvie Doutre and Jean-Guy Mailly
An Argumentative Explanation Framework for Generalized Reason Model with Inconsistent Precedents
Wachara Fungwacharakorn, Gauvain Bourgne and Ken Satoh
Automated Identification of Criminal Offenses from Case Descriptions Using Ontologies, Rules and LLMs
Jelena Matković, Marko Marković and Stevan Gostojić
Discovering the Potential of LLMs in Annotating Legal Texts for Argument Mining
Christina Berghegger, César Philippe, Karla Salas-Jimenez, Jean-Guy Mailly, Leila Moudjari and Laurent Perrussel
Enhancing Automated Decision-Making in Administrative Law through Digital Twins of Legislation: A Grounded Theory Approach
Florian Schnitzhofer and Christoph G. Schuetz
Extracting Unwritten Sentencing Rules from Czech Higher Courts' Verdicts
Tomáš Knap
Foundations for Territorial Disambiguation in Law: A Preliminary Study Using the Education Act 2005
Safia Kanwal, Livio Robaldo, Hafsa Dar, Davide Liga and Joseph Anim
LeAK-GraphRAG: A Legal Academic Knowledge GraphRAG Framework with Hybrid Retrieval for Mitigating Hallucinations
Jia Liu and Jianhao Tang
LR2: a Legal RAG for Legal Reasoning over Cases
Irene Benedetto, Luca Cagliero and Francesco Tarasconi
Modeling U.S. Supreme Court Briefs with Computational Argumentation
Heng Zheng, Dexter Williams and Bertram Ludäscher
Normative Risk Assessment in the AI Act
Beatrice Ferrigno, Marco Billi, Yasaman Yousefi and Antonino Rotolo
Packaging Thematic Analysis as an AI Workflow for Legal Research
Vojtech Pour
Plans and Diversions
Galileo Sartor, Guido Governatori, Giuseppe Pisano, Antonino Rotolo and Adam Wyner
Principles of Law: LLMs vs RegEx
Marianna Molinari, Ilaria Angela Amantea, Marinella Quaranta and Guido Governatori
Pro-Judice: Aligning LLMs with Procedural Fairness in Judicial Contexts
Qingjing Chen, Rongxin Cheng, Yan Liu, Siyuan Zheng, Antonino Rotolo, Liu Yun and Weixing Shen
Towards Interpretable Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks in Criminal Law
Thiago Dal Pont, Isabela Sabo, Maite Vieira, Jomi Hubner and Aires Rover
Uncovering AI Governance Themes in EU Policies using BERTopic and Thematic Analysis
Delaram Golpayegani, Marta Lasek-Markey, Arjumand Younus, Aphra Kerr and Dave Lewis