My Dear Colleagues,
After my very recent announcement of the publication of Cardozo Law Review's issue on "artificial intelligence and judicial proof" (22 Cardozo L. Rev. Nos. 5-6, July, 2001), I find myself in the awkward position of having to forward an announcement of the publication of three special journal issues that may well overshadow the Cardozo Law Review issue. But such is the scholarly life! Sincerely, Peter Tillers http://tillers.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:19:31 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: --- Subject: journal special issues - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Recent publications on artificial intelligence for legal proofs: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Amsterdam workshop of December 1999 on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Evidence was discussed, in an overview for the non-specialist combined with a sort of Manifesto of directions for future research, in the only paper representing the workshop in the Amstersam proceedings: ``Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Evidence: A Few Topics'', by Ephraim Nissan (University of Greenwich, London), in Proceedings of the Second World Conference on New Trends in Criminal investigation and Evidence, Amsterdam, 10-15 December 1999. = C.M. Breur, M.M. Kommer, J.F. Nijboer & J.M. Reijntjes (eds.), New Trends in Criminal Investigation and Evidence, Vol. 2 (Intersentia, Antwerpen -- Groningen -- Oxford, 2000), pp. 495--521. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Moreover, 2001 is the year which is seeing the publication, in three journals, of the editorial project undertaken by Nissan & Martino over three years ago, and which managed to put the artificial intelligence scholarly community and legal evidence scholarship from Schools of Law into fruitful contact with each other: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW (Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands) and COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava) Special Issues on Formal Approaches to Legal Evidence Plus a review section in INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY LAW (Taylor & Francis, England) 2001 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TABLE OF CONTENTS In ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW, Vol. 9, Nos. 2-3 (2001): Formal Approaches to Legal Evidence GUEST EDITORIALS: * Acknowledgement -- Antonio A. Martino and Ephraim Nissan (85-86) * Context, Content and Aim -- Ephraim Nissan (87-93) * Introduction: On Proof -- Antonio A. Martino (95-98) ARTICLES: * Ronald J. Allen: ``Artificial intelligence and the evidential process: the challenges of formalism and computation'' (99-114) * John A. Barnden: ``Uncertain reasoning about agents' beliefs and reasoning'' (115-152) * Solomon Eyal Shimony and Ephraim Nissan: ``Kappa calculus and evidentiary strength: a note on Aqvist's logical theory of legal evidence'' (153-163) * David A. Schum: ``Evidence marshaling for imaginative fact investigation'' (165-188) REVIEW ESSAYS: * Vern R. Walker: ``Complexity, transparency, and the warranted use of formal systems in legal factfinding'' (189-197) reviewing: + `A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence' by Joseph Kadane and David Schum + `The Art of Causal Conjecture' by Glenn Shafer * Ephraim Nissan: ``The Bayesianism Debate in Legal Scholarship'' (199-214) reviewing: + `Bayesianism and Juridical Proof' edited by Ron Allen and Mike Redmayne BOOK REVIEWS: * `Interpreting Evidence: Evaluating Forensic Science in the Courtroom' by Bernard Robertson and G. A. [Tony] Vignaux (reviewed by Solomon Eyal Shimony) 215-217 * `Handbook of Psychology in Legal Contexts' edited by Ray Bull and David Carson (reviewed by Ephraim Nissan) 219-224 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS, Vol. 20, Nos. 5/6 (2001): Special Issue (in press) on Artificial Intelligence and Formal Approaches to Legal Evidence Guest-edited by Antonio A. Martino and Ephraim Nissan ARTICLES: * Ephraim Nissan and Antonio A. Martino: ``Artificial intelligence and formalisms for legal evidence: an introduction'' * Carmelo Asaro, Ephraim Nissan and Antonio A. Martino: ``DAEDALUS: an integrated tool for the Italian investigating magistrate and the prosecutor. A sample session: investigating an extortion case'' * Ghita Holmstrom-Hintikka: ``Expert witnesses in the model of interrogation'' * Michael Perloff: ``Taking agents seriously'' * Afzal Ballim, Tomas By, Yorick Wilks and Christian Lieske: ``Modelling agent attitudes in legal reasoning'' * Aldo Franco Dragoni and Samuele Animali: ``Maximal consistency, theory of evidence and Bayesian conditioning in the investigative domain'' * Jonathan Yovel: ``Two conceptions of relevance'' * Ephraim Nissan and Jixin Ma: ``Identification and Doing Without It, Part I'' * Ephraim Nissan: ``Identification and Doing Without It, Part II'' REVIEW ESSAYS (more substantial than reviews): * Kirk W. Junker: ``Expanding the Notion of `Scientific' '' reviewing: + `Theory and Evidence: The Development of Scientific Reasoning' by Barbara Koslowski * Ephraim Nissan: ``Facets of Abductive Reasoning'' reviewing: + `Abduction, Reason, and Science: Processes of Discovery and Explanation' by Lorenzo Magnani + `Abductive Inference: Computation, Philosophy, Technology' edited by John R. Josephson and Susan G. Josephson. + `Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue: Studies in Computational Pragmatics' edited by Harry Bunt and William Black BOOK REVIEWS: * `Inside the Juror: The Psychology of Juror Decision Making' edited by Reid Hastie (reviewed by Ephraim Nissan) * `Automatic Summarization' by Inderjeet Mani (reviewed by Ephraim Nissan) * `Introduction to Environmental Forensics' edited by Brian L. Murphy and Robert D. Morrison (reviewed by Ephraim Nissan) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY LAW Vol. 10, No. 2, 2001, pp. 231-264: REVIEW ARTICLE: * Ephraim Nissan: ``Can You Measure Circumstantial Evidence? The Background of Probative Formalisms for Law'' (231-245) reviewing: + `Quae singula non prosunt collecta iuvant: la teoria della prova indiziaria nell'eta` medievale e moderna', by I. Rosoni BOOK REVIEWS: * `Rights of the Accused, Crime Control and Protection of Victims, edited by E. Harnon and A. Stein (reviewed by Ephraim Nissan) 247-254 * `Psychology and Law: Truthfulness, Accuracy and Credibility', by A. Memon, A. Vrij and R. Bull (reviewed by Ephraim Nissan) 254-258 * `Psicologia della prova', edited by C. Cabras (reviewed by Ephraim Nissan) 258-262 * `Complex Systems: Perspectives on the Netherlands Criminal Justice System', edited by M. Malsch and J.F. Nijboer (reviewed by Ephraim Nissan) 262-264 * Review Note (by E. Nissan) on p. 264, concerning: `New Trends in Criminal Investigation and Evidence, Vol. 2', ed. by C.M. Breur, M.M. Kommer, J.F. Nijboer & J.M. Reijntjes - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The previous issue of the same journal stemmed from a workshop on AI & Law held in Birmingham: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY LAW Vol. 10, No. 1, 2001: Special issue on "Artificial Intelligence and Law" guest-edited by Donald M. Peterson, John A. Barnden and Ephraim Nissan Editorial (pp. 5-7) ARTICLES: Truth and Consequence: Complementing Logic with Values in Legal Reasoning, by Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon, pp. 9-20 The Jama Legal Narrative. Part I: The JAMA Model and Narrative Interpretation Patterns, by Ari Geiger, Ephraim Nissan and Ariel Stollman, pp. 21-37 The Jama Legal Narrative. Part II: A Foray Into Concepts of Improbability, by Ephraim Nissan, pp. 39-52 Distributed Belief Revision as Applied Within a Descriptive Model of Jury Deliberations, by Aldo Franco Dragoni, Paolo Giorgini and Ephraim Nissan, pp. 53-65 Rules and Principles in Legal Reasoning: A Study of Vagueness and Collisions in Artificial Intelligence and Law, by Samuel Meira Brasil, Jr., pp. 67-77 Intelligent Systems to Support Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Regulation, by Peter McBurney and Simon Parsons, pp. 79-89 The Conflict Between Prosecution and Defense in a Child Sexual Abuse Case and in an Attempted Homicide Case, by Guglielmo Gulotta and Angelo Zappala`, pp. 91-108 Copyright Regulation with Argumentation Agents, by Andrew Stranieri and John Zeleznikow, pp. 109-123 Case-based Sentencing Using a Tree of Legal Concepts, by Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner and Uri J. Schild, pp. 125-135 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FURTHER INITIATIVES ARE IN PREPARATION !!! 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