Curriculum Vitae of Henry Prakken
Degrees
- 1985: Master's degree in law, at the Faculty of Law of the
University of Groningen.
- 1988: Master's degree in philosophy, at the Faculty of Philosophy of the
University of Groningen.
- January 1993:
PhD degree (cum laude) at the Faculty
of Law of the Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, with a thesis on
'Logical tools for modelling legal argument'.
Positions
- Since 15 September 2023: Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Law at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
- June 2004 - 1 October 2023: Professor of Legal Informatics and Legal Argumentation at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
- October 1998 - 15 September 2023: Senior lecturer (until Dec. 2018 lecturer) at the at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
- May 2021 - April 2023: Part-time professor European University Institute, Fiesole, Florence, Italy.
- January - October 1998: Postdoctoral researcher at the AI Section of
the Department of Computer
Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- October 1996 - August 1997: Guest researcher at the
Faculty
of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- August 1997 - January 1998: Researcher at the GMD Bonn (Germany)
- October 1993 - October 1996: Research Fellow of the
Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and
Sciences, at the Computer/Law Institute of the Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- February
- October 1993: Postdoctoral Research
Assistant at the Department
of Computing, Imperial College London.
Some academic activities
- 2013 - 2016: President of the Steering Committee of the COMMA conferences on Computational Models of Argument.
- 2011 - 2015: Chairman of JURIX (The Foundation for Knowledge-based Systems).
- 2008-2009: President of the International Association of Artificial Intelligence and Law ( IAAIL)
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Memberships of organising and program committees
- Editorial board member of
Invited speaker at workshops and conferences
- 37th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2024).
Brno (Czech Republic), 11-13 December 2024.
- Conference on Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI. Cracow (Poland), 25-26 September 2024.
- Second International Workshop on Logics for New-Generation Artificial Intelligence (LNGAI 2022). Zhuhai Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, China, 10-12 June 2022.
- International Conference on Reasoned Argumentation. Legal, Computational and Linguistic Perspectives. Krakow (Poland), 24 November 2021.
- Kick-off Conference of the RATIO Project on Robust Argumentation Machines. 8-9 June, 2021.
- ILLC Workshop on Argumentation, Information Exchange and Social Interaction. Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 1 April 2020.
- 12th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2019), Prague (Czech Republic), 12 July 2019.
- Lorenz Workshop on he Future of AI: Ethical, Legal and Societal issues. Leiden (The Netherlands), 31 January 2019.
- 6th Conference of the Priority Program "New Frameworks of Rationality" (SPP 1516). Etelsen (Germany), 5-8 March, 2017.
- Workshop on Argument Strength. Bochum (Germany), 1-2 December, 2016.
- International Workshop on The Bounds of Logic, Moscow (Russia), 20-21 October 2016.
- 9th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2016), Linz (Austria), 7-11 March, 2016.
- Workshop on Logical and Linguistic Pragmatics, Moscow (Russia), October 28, 2015 (cancelled for personal reasons).
- Conference on Rationality in Action: Intentions, Interpretations and Interactions, Moscow (Russia), October 26-27, 2015 (cancelled for personal reasons).
- Workshop on Communication and Agency. Learning Social and Communicative Meanings of the SMART Cognitive Science International Conference, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), March 27-28, 2015.
- International Conference on Logical Aspects of Agency (LARA 2014), St. Petersburg (Russia), October 16-18, 2014.
- 15th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA 2014), Prague (Czech Republic), August 18, 2014.
- 2014 Stanford Symposium on Law & Rationality on Trial with and without Mathemathics, Palo Alto (USA), May 30, 2014.
- Workshop on Dynamics Of Argumentation, Rules, and Conditionals, Luxemburg (Luxemburg), April 2-3, 2012.
- 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-2010). Kolkata (India) 12-15 November, 2010.
- 14th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue SemDial 2010). Poznan (Poland), June 16-18, 2010.
- Agreement Technologies Workshop on Linking Artificial Intelligence with Social Neuroscience. Barcelona (Spain), February 18-19, 2010.
- Second International Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI-II). Chongqing (China), October 8-11, 2009.
- 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-09).
Barcelona (Spain) 8-12 June, 2009.
- International Symposium on Games, Argumentation and Logic Programming,
Luxembourg (Luxembourg), 23-24 April 2009.
- 2nd International Conference on Computational Models of Argument
(COMMA'08).
Toulouse (France), May 28-30, 2008.
- Second International Workshop on Juris-informatics JURISIN 2008).
Hokkaido (Japan), 10 June 2008.
- Conference on
Graphic and Visual
Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings, New York, USA, 28-29 January 2007.
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Colloque Argumentation et Droit, Lille, France, 14-16 November 2005.
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Meeting in Formal Philosophy on Moral and Legal Reasoning,
Roskilde, Denmark, 29-30 April 2004.
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International Congress of Comparative Cultures and Legal Systems
(session on Artificial Intelligence and Law).
Mexico City, Mexico, 9-14 February 2004.
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Fifth Augustus de Morgan Workshop: Knowledge Representation and
the Reasoning Agent
London (UK) 3-5 November, 2003.
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6th International
Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science (DEON '02).
London (UK) 16-18 January 2002. (Since I had the flu during DEON'00 ...)
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5th International
Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science (DEON '00).
Toulouse (France) 20-22 January 2000 (cancelled because of illness).
- 11th
International Conference on Legal Knowledge-based Systems (JURIX'98),
Groningen (The Netherlands), 9 December 1998.
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VIM Spring Workshop on Collaboration between Human and Artificial Societies,
Lanjarón (Spain), 1-3 May 1997.
Some academic visits
- October 1993
- February 1994: Visitor at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London.
- 15-27 August, 1994:
Invited Guest Researcher, Institute for Applied Information Technology
(FIT), GMD - Research Institute for Information Technology, Bonn, Germany.
- September 1995 - January, 1996: Visiting Fellow at the AI Center of the
University of Georgia.
- 30 May - 15 June, 1998: Invited Lecturer, Dep. de Ciencias de la Computacion,
Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
- 1-29 May, 2006: Sabbatical, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool (UK).
- 16-24 June, 2006: CIRSFID, University of Bologna (Italy).
- 03-13 June, 2008: Invited Lecturer National Institute of Informatics and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan)
- 4-8 May 2009: Invited Lecturer, Dep. de Ciencias de la Computacion,
Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
- July 2009: SICSA Fellow at the School of Computing, University of Dundee (Scotland)
- 24 May - 4 June 2010: Invited lecturer Institute of Logic and Intelligence, Southwest University, Chongqing (China).
- 8 - 19 October, 2010: Invited lecturer Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (China).
- 7 - 20 April, 2018: Invited lecturer Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (China) and Center for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (China).
Awards:
- 2023 CodeX Prize of CodeX - The Stanford Center of Legal Informatics, Stanford University, jointly with Trevor Bench-Capon and Giovanni Sartor, in acknowledgement of our work on argumentation theory and its application to the law.