AICS-SOUNDS Colloquium on AI and Law
The AICS-SOUNDS Colloquium on AI and Law brought together researchers from computer science, law, and the social sciences to explore emerging research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and legal studies. Organised jointly by AICS (AI, Computing & Society) and SOUNDS (Societal Observatory Using Novel Data and Simulation), the colloquium built on ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration to advance research on the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to legal reasoning, empirical legal studies, and online content moderation.
The programme featured invited research presentations followed by a collaborative working session focused on identifying future research directions, strengthening interdisciplinary partnerships, and developing new collaborative research initiatives.
Agenda
Florence Metz
Professor of Political Science, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Florence Metz’s research focuses on environmental and climate policy, policy processes, governance, and public administration. Her work examines how institutions shape policy-making and implementation, with particular interest in policy coherence and environmental governance.
Johannes Kruse
Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Johannes Kruse is a legal scholar whose research lies at the intersection of competition law, procedural law, judicial decision-making, computational legal studies, empirical legal studies, and behavioural law and economics. His work explores how computational methods can advance the understanding of legal reasoning and judicial decision-making.
Tomáš Koref
Joint PhD Candidate in Legal Theory, Charles University & Goethe University Frankfurt
Tomáš Koref is a legal theorist working at the intersection of legal theory, computational social science, and artificial intelligence. His research combines theoretical, empirical, and computational approaches to study how courts interpret and apply the law, with a particular focus on legal argumentation and judicial reasoning.
Shounak Paul
Junior Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Shounak Paul is an AI researcher focusing on legal applications of artificial intelligence. His research interests include legal data mining, natural language understanding, legal statute identification, and the application of Large Language Models to legal tasks.
Abhisek Dash
Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)
Abhisek Dash is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Networked Systems Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS). His research lies at the intersection of computational social science and artificial intelligence, with a focus on algorithm auditing, online platforms, and AI-powered content moderation.
Dash received his PhD in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and currently develops computational methods for studying digital platforms and their societal impact.