https://dike.research.vub.be/en/aida2j/call-for-papers-aida2j-2026
The Stanford Legal Design Lab is a co-organizer of the AIDA2J Workshop at ICAIL 2026 in Singapore on June 8. We are looking for papers, short papers, and demo proposals. The submission deadline is May 1, 2026.
AIDA2J stands for Artificial Intelligence for Access to Justice. This is one in a series of establisehd AI-A2J workshops we have run at JURIX and ICAIL sessions since 2024. We have had a rich set of papers on how AI systems can responsibly improve access to justice.
This time at ICAIL, the workshop runs as a full-day hybrid event: you can attend in person in Singapore or join remotely.
What we are looking for
We want papers on AI tools, datasets, and systems that relate to access to justice, dispute resolution, and legal data infrastructure. The research themes include:
AI for legal help and epistemic accessibility: plain-language legal assistance, legal triage, document automation, conversational agents, and accessibility across linguistic and digital barriers.
AI for dispute resolution: AI-supported negotiation, mediation, online dispute resolution, and court-adjacent procedural tools.
Governance and accountability: explainability, bias mitigation, human-AI interaction in high-stakes legal contexts, compliance with the AI Act and related frameworks.
Evaluation and legal data infrastructure: empirical and user-centered evaluation methods, benchmarking legal AI, dataset design for RAG-based systems, and legal data standards.
This last category is close to work we have been doing in our Lab on evaluation frameworks and shared data infrastructure for legal help AI. If you are working on how to measure whether legal AI actually helps people, or how to build shared resources that multiple organizations can use, we want to hear from you.
Submission details
Long papers: up to 10 pages. Short papers: up to 5 pages. Demo proposals: 1 to 2 pages. All submissions follow ACM proceedings guidelines and go through OpenReview.
The deadline is May 1, 2026. Notification is May 18. Camera-ready is June 1. The workshop is June 8.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a Diamond Open Access journal indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.
A note if you are new to this
Quinten Steenhuis wrote a practical guide on how to write an academic paper in AI and Law, aimed at practitioners and nontraditional researchers. If you are doing real work on legal help AI but have not submitted to an academic conference before, this guide is a good starting point. We want submissions from people building and testing these tools, not only from traditional academic researchers.
How to submit
Submit through the OpenReview submission page. Use the ACM proceedings template.
For questions, contact the organizing team at andrea.filippo.ferraris@vub.be, marianna.molinari@vub.be, or marco.giacalone@vub.be.