ICAIL 2027 — 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

ICAIL 2027, the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, is an in-person research conference at the Juridicum, the University of Vienna's Faculty of Law, in Vienna, Austria, from 5 to 9 July 2027. It is the official conference of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), runs in cooperation with ACM, and marks 40 years of a series that began in 1987. The call for papers is organised in four groups: foundations and computational legal theory; legal data science, information retrieval and generative AI; technical governance, legal risk analysis and normative alignment; and legal technologies. It takes long papers (10 pages), short papers (5 pages) and 2-page demonstrations. The week also includes workshops and tutorials, the Trevor Bench-Capon Doctoral Consortium and the Karl Branting Industry Meeting. Paper submissions are due 28 January 2027.

• Workshop and tutorial proposal deadlineDec 11, 2026
• Paper and demonstration submission deadlineJan 28, 2027
• Rebuttal period opensMar 18, 2027
• Rebuttal period closesMar 25, 2027
• Notification to authorsApr 19, 2027
• ACM metadata deadlineApr 23, 2027
• Camera-ready deadlineApr 26, 2027

Date

July 5–9, 2027

Location

Juridicum, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, Austria

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)

Added

Sep 17, 2026

Updated

Sep 17, 2026

• ✓AI and law researchers
• ✓Legal technologists and legal engineers
• ✓General counsel and legal operations leaders
• ✓AI governance and compliance leads
• ✓NLP and information retrieval engineers
• ✓Regulators and public-sector digital-government teams
• ✓PhD students in AI and law

For a general counsel, chief compliance officer or CIO deploying generative AI on contracts, filings or regulated decisions, ICAIL is where the evaluation and verification methods for legal AI are published and argued over first. The 2027 call puts regulatory compliance engineering, legal risk assessment, auditability and guardrails next to legal NLP and retrieval. Attending helps a team judge which legal-AI vendor claims hold up and pick an approach for machine-readable regulation (Rules as Code). The industry meeting is also a place to recruit researchers who work on accountable automated decision-making.

• ✓Track group 1: Foundations, knowledge representation and computational legal theory (logic and argumentation, normative modelling, rule- and case-based reasoning, neuro-symbolic integration, ontologies)
• ✓Track group 2: Legal data science, information retrieval and generative AI (legal NLP, argument mining, predictive analytics, generative AI evaluation and verification)
• ✓Track group 3: Technical governance, legal risk analysis and normative alignment (regulatory compliance engineering, algorithmic fairness, law-based AI safety and guardrails, auditability)
• ✓Track group 4: Legal technologies (hybrid intelligence workflows, access to justice, Rules as Code and e-government, dispute resolution, smart contracts, legal forensics and education)
• ✓Trevor Bench-Capon Doctoral Consortium
• ✓Karl Branting Industry Meeting
• ✓Workshops and tutorials (proposals due 11 December 2026)
• ✓Long papers (10 pp), short papers (5 pp) and demonstration extended abstracts (2 pp)

• ★The longest-running research venue for AI and law (since 1987) and the official conference of IAAIL; 2027 is its 40th-anniversary edition
• ★The call for papers covers technical governance directly: regulatory compliance engineering, legal risk assessment, auditability and law-based AI safety and alignment
• ★Hosted inside a law faculty (the University of Vienna's Juridicum), so the audience mixes legal scholars and practitioners with computer scientists
• ★The Karl Branting Industry Meeting gives practitioners their own track next to the research programme and the doctoral consortium

Registration fees for ICAIL 2027 are not published yet. The conference site lists the paper and proposal deadlines but no rates. Registration normally opens after acceptance notifications on 19 April 2027.

When is ICAIL 2027?

ICAIL 2027 takes place July 5–9, 2027 in Vienna, Austria.

Where is ICAIL 2027 held?

ICAIL 2027 is held in Vienna, Austria. The event format is in-person.

What is the ICAIL 2027 submission deadline?

The next ICAIL 2027 deadline is workshop and tutorial proposal deadline on Dec 11, 2026. Remaining dates: Paper and demonstration submission deadline — Jan 28, 2027; Rebuttal period opens — Mar 18, 2027; Rebuttal period closes — Mar 25, 2027; Notification to authors — Apr 19, 2027; ACM metadata deadline — Apr 23, 2027; Camera-ready deadline — Apr 26, 2027.

How much does ICAIL 2027 cost?

ICAIL 2027 is paid. Registration fees for ICAIL 2027 are not published yet. The conference site lists the paper and proposal deadlines but no rates. Registration normally opens after acceptance notifications on 19 April 2027.

Who should attend ICAIL 2027?

ICAIL 2027 is aimed at AI and law researchers, Legal technologists and legal engineers, General counsel and legal operations leaders, AI governance and compliance leads, NLP and information retrieval engineers, Regulators and public-sector digital-government teams, PhD students in AI and law.

What topics does ICAIL 2027 cover?

ICAIL 2027 covers Legal NLP, Generative AI evaluation and verification, Argument mining and legal reasoning, Regulatory compliance engineering, Law-based AI safety, alignment and guardrails, Algorithmic fairness and bias, Rules as Code and e-government, Neuro-symbolic integration, Legal information retrieval, Smart contracts and distributed ledgers.

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