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25 A.I. & L. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/artinl25 and id is 1 raw text is: Artif Intell Law (2017) 25:1-3 CrssMark DOI 10.1007/s10506-017-9198-5 Introduction to the special issue on Artificial Intelligence for Justice (AI4J) Floris Bex1 - Henry Prakken,2 - Tom van Engers3 Bart Verheij4 Published online: 9 March 2017 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017 Artificial intelligence is currently a centre of attention of legal professionals. An abundance of startup companies explore the application of Al techniques in the domain of law, and there is even talk of artificially intelligent legal assistants disrupting the legal market space. Factors driving the increased attention for legal Al include: * Technological breakthroughs in machine learning, natural language processing, ubiquitous computing, data science, and argumentation technology; * The changing attitude towards technology in the legal domain; * The much increased availability of legal data on the internet; * The recent success of Al applications in the private and public domain; * The success of technology supporting access to law, legal empowerment, and transparency; * The increased need for norms embedded in technology (autonomous driving and warfare, big data analysis for crime fighting and counterterrorism). Against this background, we organized a one-day workshop 'Al for Justice (AI4J)' on August 30, 2017, in The Hague, The Netherlands. The workshop was held in H Bart Verheij bart.verheij @rug.nl Floris Bex tbc@csc.liv.ac.uk Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2 Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 3 Leibniz Center for Law, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4 Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands I_ Springer