About

NLLP Workshop 2021 took place on 10 November 2021, co-located with EMNLP 2021.

The workshop proceedings are available here.

The recording of the workshop is available here

Important Dates:

• Submission deadline ― 30 August 2021
• Notification ― 22 September 2021
• Camera ready ― 30 September 2021
• Workshop ― 10 November 2021

Program

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Committees

Organizing Committee

• Nikolaos Aletras ― University of Sheffield
• Ion Androutsopoulos ― Athens University of Economics and Business
• Leslie Barrett ― Bloomberg Law
• Catalina Goanta - Maastricht University
• Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro ― Bloomberg

Programe Committee

• Tomaso Agnoloni - Institute of Legal Information Theory and Technologies (Italy)
• Elliott Ash - ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
• Breck Baldwin - Columbia University (US)
• Andrew Blair-Stanek - Johns Hopkins University (US)
• Lukasz Borchmann - Applica.ai (Poland)
• Ilias Chalkidis - University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
• Rajarathnam Chandramouli - Stevens Institute of Technology (US)
• Daniel Chen - Toulouse School of Economics(France)
• Marina Danilevsky - IBM Research (US)
• Tony Davis - Southern Oregon University (US)
• Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb - Saarland University (Germany)
• Luigi Di Caro - Turin University (Italy)
• Fabiana Di Porto - University of Salento (Italy)
• Kasper Drazewski - The European Consumer Organization (Italy)
• Arthur Dyevre - KU Leuven (Belgium)
• Emmanouil Fergadiotis - NCSR "Demokritos" & AUEB (Greece)
• Frank Giaoui - Optimalex Legal Analytics & Columbia University (US)
• Matthias Grabmair - Technical University of Munich (Germany)
• Nils Holzenberger - Johns Hopkins University (US)
• Dan Katz - Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law (US)
• Ilan Kernerman - K Dictionaries (Israel)
• Manolis Koubarakis - University of Athens (Greece)
• Vasileios Lampos - University College London (UK)
• Jochen Leidner - Coburg University (Germany)
• [Monika Leszczynska] - Maastricht University (The Netherlands)
• Junyi Jessy Li - University of Texas at Austin (US)
• Ruta Liepina - Maastricht University (The Netherlands)
• How Khang Lim - Singapore Management University (Singapore)
• Prodromos Malakasiotis - NCSR "Demokritos" & AUEB (Greece)
• Adam Meyers - New York University (US)
• Jelena Mitrovic - University of Passau (Germany)
• Paulo Quaresma - Universidade de Évora (Portugalia)
• Georg Rehm - DFKI (Germany)
• George Sanchez - Thomson Reuters (US)
• Thibault Schrepel - Vrije Universiteit (The Netherlands)
• Mathias Siems - European University Institute (Italy)
• Dan Simonson - BlackBoiler LLC (US)
• Jerrold Soh - Singapore Management University (Singapore)
• Gerasimos Spanakis - Maastricht University (The Netherlands)
• Andrea Tagarelli - University of Calabria (Italy)
• Amelia Taylor - Malawi Polytechnic (Malawi)
• Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis - University of York (UK)
• Gijs Van Dijck - Maastricht University (The Netherlands)
• Mihaela Vela - Saarland University (Germany)
• Adam Wyner - Swansea University (UK)
• Marcos Zampieri - Rochester Institute of Technology (US)

Invited Speakers

John Armour (Oxford Law)

Title: Access to Caselaw Data in the UK: Constraints and Future Prospects

Abstract: In this talk, we will consider the legal, regulatory and practical constraints on access to caselaw data in the UK for use in legal NLP applications, contrasting these with the position in other leading jurisdictions. We will analyse how the legal constraints can be managed and provide an overview of the future prospects for data access.

Bio: John Armour is Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University and a Fellow of the British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute. He was previously a member of the Faculty of Law and the interdisciplinary Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. He studied law (MA, BCL) at the University of Oxford and then at Yale Law School (LLM). He has held visiting posts at various institutions including the University of Auckland, the University of Chicago, Columbia Law School, the University of Frankfurt, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law in Hamburg, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Sydney. He is a member of the American Law Institute and an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association. Armour has published widely in the fields of company law, financial regulation, and corporate insolvency. His main research interest lies in the integration of legal and economic analysis, with particular emphasis on the impact on the real economy of changes in company law, corporate insolvency law and financial regulation. He serves as an Executive Editor of the Journal of Corporate Law Studies and the Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting, and has been involved in policy-related projects commissioned by the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry (now BEIS), Financial Services Authority (now FCA) and Insolvency Service, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the World Bank. He served as a member of the European Commission’s Informal Company Law Expert Group from 2014-19.

Sylvie Delacroix (Birmingham Law & Alan Turing Institute)

Title: Data Trusts as a Bottom-up Empowerment Tool

Abstract: This presentation will focus on data trusts as a bottom-up empowerment tool. It will proceed from an analysis of the particular type of vulnerability concomitant with our 'leaking' data on a daily basis, to argue that data ownership is both unlikely and inadequate as an answer to the problems at stake. There are three key problems that bottom-up data trusts seek to address:

• Lack of mechanisms to empower groups, not just individuals
• We can (and should) do better than 'make belief' consent.
• We can (and should) do better when it comes to intelligent data sharing.

Bio: Sylvie Delacroix focuses on the intersection between law and ethics, with a particular interest in Data and Machine Ethics, Agency and the role of habit within moral decisions (Habitual Ethics?, Bloomsbury / Hart Publishing, 2021). Her current research focuses on the design of computer systems meant for morally-loaded contexts. She is also considering the potential inherent in 'bottom-up' Data Trusts as a mechanism to address power imbalances between data-subjects and data-controllers. Professor Delacroix’s work has notably been funded by the Wellcome Trust, the NHS and the Leverhulme Trust, from whom she received the Leverhulme Prize. Professor Delacroix was one of three appointed commissioners on the Public Policy Commission on the use of algorithms in the justice system (Law Society of England and Wales), which released its report on 04 June 2019. She is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and a Mozilla Fellow. Visit the Data Trusts website - a new site co-created by Sylvie that brings together information about data trusts, with the aim of helping advance debate about their use.