Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2015)

The 15th International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL 2015) was held in San Diego, California, USA, June 8-12, 2015, at the University of San Diego, at the Kroc Institute, under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), an organization devoted to promoting research and development in the field of AI and law with members throughout the world. The conference is held in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and with ACM SIGAI (the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence of the Association for Computing Machinery). The conference has been held every two years since 1987, alternating between North America and (usually) Europe. The program for ICAIL 2015 included three days of plenary sessions and two days of workshops, tutorials, and related events. Attendance reached a total of 179 participants from 23 countries. Of the total, 95 were registered for the full conference and 84 for one or two days. The work reported at the ICAIL conferences has always had two thrusts: using law as a rich domain for AI research, and using AI techniques to develop legal applications. That duality continued this year, with an increased emphasis on the applications side. Workshop topics included (1) discovery of electronically stored information, (2) law and big data, (3) automated semantic analysis of legal texts, and (4) evidence in the law. There were also two sessions for which attorneys could obtain Continuing Legal Education credit, one on AI techniques for intellectual property analytics and the other on trends in legal search and software. The program also contained events intended to reach out to a variety of communities and audiences.