Explainability for legal decisions in the era of AI
The opening conference for the LEXplain project will explore the relationship between legal and computational explainability. The conference will take place on 15 December at the Faculty of Law.
Hovedinnhold
AI technology used in the context of legal decision making, challenges several rule-of law ideals such as transparency in reasoning, accountability and relevancy of the explanation to the case at hand. In short, the use of AI for legal decision-making challenges lawʼs legitimacy. LEXplain investigates how AI technology can be adapted to case processing and decision making in a way that ensures compliance with legal obligation to provide justificatory reasons. The conference will be organized around three thematic panels:
1) Artificial Legal Reasoning.
2) Administrative Practice and Case Based Reasoning Systems.
3) Large Language Models in the World of Law.
Program:
Registration
Registration takes place between 08:30 and 09:00.
Panel 1 Artificial Legal Reasoning
09:00 - 11:00
Chair: Ragna Aarli
Speakers:
- LEXplain: Researching the law and AI interface, Professor and PI LEXplain Henrik Palmer Olsen, University of Bergen
- Artificial Legal Reasoning: Potentials and barriers, Assistant Professor Jennifer Raso, McGill University.
- What is a good (enough) reason for a legal decision? Professor Mathilde Cohen, University of Connecticut.
Questions and discussions.
11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break.
Panel 2 Administrative Practice and Case Based Reasoning Systems
11:30 - 13:00
Chair: Synne Sæther Mæhle
- What is administrative practice?: How is it generated? How is it followed? How does it change? NN
- Case Based Reasoning systems for decision support in public administration: How to build CBR systems to assist adherence to administrative practice, Postdoc Paul Cosma, University of Copenhagen
- Panel discussion: "How far have we come with AI as a decision support for caseworkers in public mass administration that requires the use of discretion? Carine Røkenes (Head of Section at the Tax Appeals Board), Bjørn Eriksen (Senior Consultant at the Norwegian Tax Administration), Kaja Vollan Amundsen (Delivery Manager for Disability Benefits, Norwegian Directorate of Labour and Welfare) and NN in dialogue with Ragna Aarli
13:00-14:00: Lunch
Panel 3 Large language models in the world of law
14:00 - 16:00
Chair: Henrik Palmer Olsen
- Automated legal information retrieval and analysis: state of the art and evaluation metrics, NN
- Computational approaches to assessment of case similarity, Docent Johan Lindholm, University of Umeå
- How legality challenges the use of AI in public administration, Associate professor Aysel Kucuksu, University of Copenhagen
16:00 - 16:30: Closing discussions