When: Third Friday of each month at 1 PM Central Time (sometimes fourth Friday; next workshop: Thursday, April 30, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Central Time).
What: First 90 minutes: Two presentations of CS+Law works in progress or new papers with open Q&A. Last 30 minutes: Networking.
Where: Zoom
Who: CS+Law faculty, postdocs, PhD students, and other students (1) enrolled in or who have completed a graduate degree in CS or Law and (2) engaged in CS+Law research intended for publication.
A Steering Committee of CS+Law faculty from Berkeley, Boston U., U. Chicago, Cornell, Georgetown, MIT, North Carolina Central, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn, Technion, and UCLA organizes the CS+Law Monthly Workshop. A different university serves as the chair for each monthly program and sets the agenda.
Why: The Steering Committee’s goals include building community, facilitating the exchange of ideas, and getting students involved. To accomplish this, we ask that participants commit to attending regularly.
Computer Science + Law is a rapidly growing area. It is increasingly common that a researcher in one of these fields must interact with the other discipline. For example, there is significant research in each field regarding the law and regulation of computation, the use of computation in legal systems and governments, and the representation of law and legal reasoning. There has been a significant increase in interdisciplinary research collaborations between researchers from CS and Law. Our goal is to create a forum for the exchange of ideas in a collegial environment that promotes building community, collaboration, and research that helps to further develop CS+Law as a field.
Please join us for our next CS+Law Research Workshop online on Thursday, April 30, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Central Time (Chicago Time).
Workshop 38 Organizer: Georgetown (Paul Ohm)
This edition of the CS+Law workshop will feature a panel of four legal scholars who have published or will be publishing law school casebooks or textbooks on AI Law and Policy.
Agenda:
5-minute presentation - Margaret Hu
5-minute presentation - Margot Kaminski
5-minute presentation - Nita Farhany
5-minute presentation - Dan Linna
70-minute rountadble discussion
After brief introductions to the four books by their authors, moderator Paul Ohm (Georgetown and co-author with Kaminski and Selbst) will lead a roundtable discussion of the hows and whys of writing a law school textbook on this interdisciplinary and fast-moving topic. Panelists will discuss whether AI Law deserves to be taught as a lecture class in every law school, the challenges of writing and teaching the topic, and how much technical detail they provide in their books, among other topics.
Presentation 1: AI Law and Policy (Aspen, 2025)
Presenter: Margaret Hu
Presentation 2: Artificial Intelligence (Law Foundation Press, forthcoming Fall 2026)
Presenter: Margot Kaminski (co-authors Paul Ohm and Andrew Selbst)
Presentation 3: AI Law and Policy
Presenter: Nita Farhany
Presentation 4: Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning (Aspen, forthcoming 2026 for Fall 2026)
Presenter: Dan Linna (co-author April Dawson)
Join our group to get the agenda and Zoom information for each meeting and engage in the CS+Law discussion.
Submit a proposed topic to present. We strongly encourage the presentation of works in progress, although we will consider the presentation of more polished and published projects.
Friday, September 20, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time (Organizer: Northwestern)
Friday, October 18, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time (Organizer: UC Berkeley)
Friday, November 15, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time (Organizer: University of Chicago)
Friday, January 17, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time (Organizer: UPenn)
Friday, February 21, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time (Organizer: Cornell)
Friday, March 21, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time (Organizer: Tel Aviv University + Harvard)
Friday, April 18, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time (Organizer: TBD)
Friday, May 16, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time (Organizer: Georgetown)
Ran Canetti (Boston U.)
Bryan Choi (Ohio State)
Aloni Cohen (U. Chicago)
April Dawson (North Carolina Central)
James Grimmelmann (Cornell Tech)
Jason Hartline (Northwestern)
Dan Linna (Northwestern)
Paul Ohm (Georgetown)
Pamela Samuelson (Berkeley)
Inbal Talgam-Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
John Villasenor (UCLA)
Rebecca Wexler (Berkeley)
Christopher Yoo (Penn)
Northwestern Professors Jason Hartline and Dan Linna convened an initial meeting of 21 CS+Law faculty at various universities on August 17, 2021 to propose a series of monthly CS+Law research conferences. Hartline and Linna sought volunteers to sit on a steering committee. Hartline, Linna, and their Northwestern colleagues provide the platform and administrative support for the series.