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1 A.I. & L. 1 (1992-1993)

handle is hein.journals/artinl1 and id is 1 raw text is: Artificial Intelligence and Law 1, 1 - 2, 1992 1 © 1992 Kluwer Academic Publishers, Printed in the Netherlands From the Editors: This issue inaugurates a new journal devoted to artificial intelligence and law, an interdis- ciplinary field that combines one of the oldest human intellectual endeavors with one of the youngest. (The oldest known legal text, the Code of Hammurabi, was created approx- imately 3700 years ago, while the field of artificial intelligence can be dated from Alan Turing's 1950 articlel which begins: 'I propose to consider the question 'Can machines think?' and goes on to define what is now known as the 'Turing Test'.) The field of artificial intelligence (Al) and law has grown from a few small projects during the 1970's to a flourishing international research community today. As legal scholars have recognized that Al offers a new and more precise methodology for repre- senting jurisprudential theories, so also Al researchers have recognized the importance in human reasoning of normative concepts such as duty, responsibility, fault and authority. These communities are increasingly working together to create computational models of the way a (somewhat) formalized structure of legal rules and precedents embodies the norms of society, and the way people are able to manipulate this structure in creating arguments and making decisions. At the same time, practitioners and academics alike have recognized the potential of AI-based information systems to revolutionize the day-to-day practice of lawyers, judges and other legal decision makers. The adaptation of Al techniques, including expert systems, planning, and natural language processing to the legal domain is a topic of growing interest and excitement which both benefits from and offers challenges to funda- mental scientific research. The purpose of AI & Law is to provide a forum for sharing research results, problems, and ideas about computational models of law and legal reasoning, applications of AI in the legal domain, and the impact of legal Al systems on the legal profession and society. Topics of current interest include: Representing normative concepts and their interaction with other common-sense con- cepts such as action, intention and causality (exemplified by the Jones and Sergot article in this issue). Defining 'open-textured' concepts through examples and/or prototypes, and reasoning with knowledge defined in this manner. Developing models of the adversarial process of legal argument, and the way that process supports decision making (exemplified by the. Skalak and Rissland article in this issue). Creating innovative applications of Al for the legal domain. Turing, A., 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', Mind, October 1950, pp. 433-460. (Reprinted in Computers and Thought, E. Feigenbaum and J. Feldman, eds., McGraw-Hill, 1963.)

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