Twentieth International Workshop on Juris-informatics
(JURISIN 2026)
associated with JSAI International Symposia on AI 2026 (IsAI-2026)

June 7th and 8th, 2026

G MESSE GUNMA (GUNMA Convention Center), Gunma, Japan (Hybrid Format)
https://www.g-messe-gunma.jp/en/

Aims and Scope
Juris-informatics studies legal issues from the perspective of
informatics and AI. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss both
the fundamental and practical issues among people from the various
backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent
technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional "AI and
law" area. We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and
applications on juris-informatics.

Important Dates
Workshop: June 7th and 8th, 2026
Submission Deadline: 25 Jan, 2026
Notification: 28 Feb, 2026
Camera-ready due: 25 March, 2026
Registration

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Model of legal reasoning
Argumentation / Negotiation / Argumentation agent
Legal term ontology
Formal legal knowledge-base / Intelligent management of legal knowledge-base
Computer-aided legal education
Use of informatics and AI in law
Social implications of use of informatics and AI in law
AI and intellectual property
Legal/Ethical Compliance check of AI Systems
Natural language processing for legal knowledge
Translating law into formal representation
Legal data mining
Legal document analysis
Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems
Online dispute resolution
Evidential reasoning
AI application to forensics
AI application to smart contracts and blockchain
Legislation support by AI/IT techniques
Generative AI and Law
Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with
juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain

Submissions
We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original
papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication
elsewhere. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to
the Springer Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form, which can be obtained
from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
and not exceed 14 pages including figures, references, etc. If you use
a word file, please follow the instruction of the format, and then
convert it into a pdf form and submit it at the paper submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=jurisin2026

If a paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper must register
the workshop through this page. Without fulfilling this condition, the
paper will not be in the proceedings.
Proceedings
We will publish accepted papers which have LNAI quality in IsAI2026
proceedings in LNAI series.

We will also publish another online proceedings other than LNAI
proceedings for papers which are not qualified for LNAI publication,
but are selected to be presented at the workshop.

Workshop Chairs
Ken Satoh, Center for Juris-informatics, Japan
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan

Program Committee Members (To be confirmed)
Ryuta Arisaka, Kyoto University
Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien
Giuseppe Contissa, University of Bologna
Marina De Vos, University of Bath
Huimin Dong, TU Wien
Wachara Fungwacharakorn, Center for Juris-Informatics
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta
Guido Governatori, Central Queensland University
Shigeru Kagayama, Meiji Gakuin University
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Chuo University
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University
Mi-Young Kim, U. of Alberta
Yuntao Kong, Center for Juris-Informatics
Davide Liga, University of Luxembourg
Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology
Maria Navas-Loro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Ha-Thanh Nguyen, National Institute of Informatics
Le-Minh Nguyen, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Katsumi Nitta, Center for Juris-Informatics
Yasuhiro Ogawa, Nagoya City University
Shozo Ota, The University of Tokyo
Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID, ALMA-AI
Livio Robaldo, University of Swansea
Victor Rodriguez Doncel, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University
Ken Satoh, Center for Juris-Informatics
Cor Steging, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Satoshi Tojo, Asia University
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University
Vu Tran, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
Bart Verheij, University of Groningen
Mayu Watanabe, Institute of Science Tokyo
Sabine Wehnert, Leibniz Institute for Educational Media \ Georg
Eckert Institute
Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Tohoku University
Adam Wyner, Univesity of Swansea
Hiroaki Yamada, Institute of Science Tokyo
Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University
May Myo Zin, Center for Juris-Informatics
Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen

jurisin 2026 homepage:
https://jurisinformaticscenter.github.io/jurisin2026/