Announcements 
Fifth International Conference on ArtiticialIntelligence and Law 

May 21-24,1995 
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA 

Sponsored by: 
The International Association for Ar-

tificial Intelligence and Law 
(IAAIL) 

The University of Maryland Institute 
for Advanced Computer Studies 
(UMIACS) 

In cooperation with: 
The Association for Computing Ma-

chinery (ACM SIGART) 
The American Association for Artifi-

cial Intelligence (AAAI) 
General Cbair: 

L. Thorne McCarty, Rutgers University 
Local Arrangements: 

John F. Horty, University of Maryland 
Programme Chair: 

Trevor Beach-Capon 
Dept. of Computer Science 
The University of Liverpool 
P.O. Box 147 
Liverpool L69 3BS, England 
E-mail: tbe@compsci.1iverpool.ac.uk 
Fax: +51 7943715 

Secretary-Treasurer: 
Carole Hafner 
College of Computer Science 
Northeastern University 
360 Huntington Ave. 
Boston, MA 02115, USA 
E-mail: hafner@ccs.neu.edu 
Tel. 617-373-5116 Fax: 617-373-5121 
The field of AI and law is concerned 

with: the investigation of legal reasoning 
using computational methods; applications 
which use AI techniques to support tasks 
in the legal domain; and the investigation 
of AI techniques using law as the example 
domain. ICAIL-95 will provide a forum for 
the presentation and discussion of the lat-
est research results and practical applica-
tions and will stimulate interdisciplinary 
and international collaboration in the grow-
ing AI and Law community. Previous meet-
ings of the International Conference have 
taken place in Boston (1987), Vancouver 
(1989), Oxford (1991) and Amsterdam 
(1993). 

Argumentation and Education 
May 5 - 6, 1995 

Brock University, St. Catharines, Ont., Canada 

Sponsored by the Ontario Society for the Western Ontario; Frans van Eemeren, Uni-
Study of Argumentation the keynote speak- versity of Amsterdam and Harvey Siegel, 
ers will be: Robert Binkley, University of University of Miami. 

The 9th Alta Conference on Argumentation 
August 3 - 6, 1995 

Alta Peruvian Lodge, Alta UT, USA 

Sponsored by the Speech Communica-
tion Association, the American Forensic 
Association, and the University of Utah, the 
Conference on Argumentation brings to-
gether scholars in all aspects of the study 
of argumentation. The Conference includes 
a keynote session, paper presentations, and 
discussion sessions. All sessions are held 
in the Alta Peruvian Lodge, which also pro-

vides lodging and meals as a 4-day confer-
ence package. Papers presented at the con-
ference are normally published in the Con-
ference Proceedings. 

For information about reservations and 
registration, contact the Department of 
Communication, University of Utah, Salt 
Lake City, UT, USA 84112.