The new International Conference on Decision Making in Medicine and Law aims at becoming a new established meeting point for the exchange of research experience on all aspects of decision making in medicine and law, with a special emphasis on the implications of the use of information technologies, specifically Artificial Intelligence.

The conference aims at:

- Providing students, practitioners, and researchers in psychiatry, psychology, and law, with high quality education on cutting-edge topics in medicine and law, as well as in other relevant aspects of the forensic field.

- Bringing together research scholars as well as practitioners in forensic psychiatry, psychology, and law to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of decision making in medicine and law.

- Facilitating connections and building synergies among the different disciplines.
DMM&L 2023 welcomes authors to submit proposals for presentations of thematic sessions.


== Topics of interest ==

Topics of interest are as follows (the list is not exhaustive):

- Artificial intelligence (AI) applications in medicine and law
- Decision-making in forensic psychiatric assessment
- The role of neuroscience in legal proceedings
- Multidisciplinary perspectives in forensic evaluations
- Ethical aspects linked to the use of AI in the forensic field
- AI applications in prediction of aggression and violence
- AI and its implications in guilt, punishment, and responsibility
- AI-based systems to support personal injury compensation.


== Types of submissions ==

The following types of submissions are solicited:
- Abstracts of oral presentations
- Abstracts to be presented in the poster session
- Proposals of thematic sessions, including the abstracts of 4-5 oral presentations on a related topic. Those who organize two or more sessions will be added to the Scientific Programme Committee.


== Journal special issue ==

We aim at publishing a special issue in a widely recognised International journal with extended versions of the best conference contributions, provided that a sufficient amount of high-quality manuscripts is collected. Prospective authors will be given further details after the conference.


== Scientific Programme Committee (initial list) ==

- Felice Francesco Carabellese
Professor in Forensic Psychiatry
Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine
University of Bari, Italy

- Roberto Catanesi
Professor in Forensic Psychopathology
Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine
University of Bari, Italy

- Giuseppe Corasaniti
Professor of Philosophy of Law
Universitas Mercatorum of Rome, Italy

- Giovanna Laura De Fazio
Professor of Criminology and Law
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

- Stefano Ferracuti
Professor in Forensic Psychopathology
Department of Human Neuroscience
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

- Marcello Ienca
Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience
School of Medicine
Technical University of Munich, Germany

- Brendan Kelly
Professor of Psychiatry
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

- Henry Gerard Kennedy
Professor of Forensic Psychiatry
DUNDRUM Centre for Forensic Excellence
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

- Toni Mancini
Professor in Artificial Intelligence
Department of Computer Science
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

- Gabriele Mandarelli
Assistant Professor in Forensic Medicine
Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine
University of Bari, Italy

- Gerben Meynen
Professor in Ethics and Forensic Psychiatry
Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Faculty of Humanities, Moral and Political Philosophy, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

- Giovanna Parmigiani
Research fellow in Forensic Psychiatry
Department of Human Neuroscience
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

- Pietro Pietrini
Professor in Forensic Psychopathology
Molecular Mind Laboratory
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy

- Paolo Roma
Professor in Clinical Psychology
Department of Human Neuroscience
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

- Amedeo Santosuosso
Professor of Philosophy of Law
Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia

- Giuseppe Sartori
Professor in Neuropsychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of General Psychology
University of Padua, Italy