<div dir="ltr">[apologies for cross-posting ]<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_-6708852785472441340gmail-m_-1815354253239246355gmail-docs-internal-guid-35528073-7fff-7168-5c28-e2e4afc0fa43" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Bangla966,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><span class="gmail-il">Symposium</span> on <span class="gmail-il">Artificial</span> <span class="gmail-il">Intelligence</span> and <span class="gmail-il">Law</span> (<span class="gmail-il">SAIL</span>)</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">31 May - 04 June, 2021 | Virtual event</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/sail-2021/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/<span class="gmail-il">sail</span>-2021/</a> </span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The <span class="gmail-il">Symposium</span> on <span class="gmail-il">Artificial</span> <span class="gmail-il">Intelligence</span> and <span class="gmail-il">Law</span> (<span class="gmail-il">SAIL</span>) aims to bring together experts from Industry and Academia to discuss the future of AI and <span class="gmail-il">Law</span>. The <span class="gmail-il">Symposium</span> aims to provide a venue for academic and industrial/governmental AI-<span class="gmail-il">Law</span> researchers and <span class="gmail-il">law</span> professionals to come together, present and discuss research results, use cases, innovative ideas, challenges, and opportunities that arise from applications of AI in the Legal Domain. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The <span class="gmail-il">Symposium</span> is organized by Computer Science and AI researchers from IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IISER Kolkata, TCG CREST (all from India) and CSIRO Australia, and <span class="gmail-il">Law</span> researchers from the WB National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) and Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India. Details of organizers can be found on the website.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">== Invited talks == </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The <span class="gmail-il">symposium</span> will have invited talks from eminent <span class="gmail-il">Law</span>-AI researchers from both academia and industry (details available on the <span class="gmail-il">symposium</span> website):</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Kevin Ashley -- Professor of <span class="gmail-il">Law</span> and Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Maura Grossman -- Professor, University of Waterloo; Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall <span class="gmail-il">Law</span> School, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Jack G. Conrad -- Director and Lead Researcher, Center for AI and Cognitive Computing, Thomson Reuters, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Lyria Bennett Moses -- Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, <span class="gmail-il">Law</span> and Innovation; Professor in the Faculty of <span class="gmail-il">Law</span> and Justice at UNSW Sydney, Australia</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Christoph Sorge -- Professor of Legal Informatics, University of Saarland, Germany</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Dave Lewis -- Executive Vice President for AI Research and Ethics at Reveal-Brainspace, USA </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Adam Wyner -- Faculty of <span class="gmail-il">Law</span> and Computer Science, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of <span class="gmail-il">Law</span>, Swansea University, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Guido Governatori -- Group Leader, Software Systems Research Group, CSIRO, Australia</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Sachin Kumar -- Senior Data Scientist at LexisNexis, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Arthur Dyevre -- Faculty of Empirical Jurisprudence, KU Leuven, Belgium</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Shiri Krebs -- Faculty, Deakin <span class="gmail-il">Law</span> School, Australia</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Suzan Verberne -- Group leader of Text Mining & Retrieval, Leiden University, Netherlands</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Angshuman Hazarika -- Faculty, IIM Ranchi, India; Doctor of <span class="gmail-il">Law</span>, Saarland Uni, Germany</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Matthias Grabmair -- Faculty, LegalTech, TU Munich, Germany; Adjunct Professor, CMU LTI</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Sshubham Joshi -- Founder, Lawnics, India</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">== Panel Discussions == </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The <span class="gmail-il">symposium</span> will have panel discussions on the future of AI and <span class="gmail-il">Law</span>, with a special focus on the <span class="gmail-il">Law</span>-AI scenario in India. Details are uploaded on the website.</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">== Participation == </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Bangla966,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The <span class="gmail-il">symposium</span> will be fully online. Anyone interested in <span class="gmail-il">Law</span> or application of AI in the legal domain is welcome to attend. Participation is free of cost, but prior registration is necessary. Interested participants need to register themselves on the <span class="gmail-il">symposium</span> website <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/sail-2021/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/<span class="gmail-il">sail</span>-2021/</a>  (under the "Participate" tab).</span></p></span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Bangla966,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Bangla966,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Bangla210,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Kind Regards,</span><font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Bangla210,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><font color="#000000"><b>Kripabandhu Ghosh</b><br></font><div><br></div><div>Co-organizer</div><div><span class="gmail-il">SAIL</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>