LATEST:
- Call for papers of the First European Workshop on Argumentation and Uncertainty (ArgU@ECSQARU 2025). Submission deadline July 3rd, 2025.
- I was interviewed by the Dutch magazine for lawyers Advocatenblad (2025-2, pp. 34-38) about When do you step into the world of AI?
- Slides of my invited talk What information does an algorithmic legal judgment prediction give? at JURIX 2024.
- Full text of my inaugural address of Sept. 9th, 2024 [original Dutch version], [translated English version]
- An obituary of Trevor Bench-Capon, who passed away on 20 May 2024.
- The Handbook of Rationality (eds. Markus Knauff and Wolfgang Spohn) is now open access.
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Public announcement of my appointment as full professor on AI and law at Utrecht University, with a brief interview.
- I have received the 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.
- My reader Juridische Argumentatie (in Dutch) is now downloadable under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0.
- Mijn commentaar als referent op het preadvies van Eric Tjiong Tjin Tai tijdens het jaarcongres 2020 van de Nederlandse Juristenvereniging. De preadviezen zijn hier te downloaden.
- John Fox, the leader of the ASPIC project (2004-2007) died on August 31, 2021. Links to a tribute and an obituary.
- I was interviewed by the Dutch newspaper NRC about IBM's Debater project.
- The special issue of Topics in Cognitive Science on Models of Rational Proof in Criminal Law, edited by myself, Floris Bex and Anne Ruth Mackor, is now online. See also the introduction. With useful case study material for argumentation research, including my argumentation-based analysis of the Simonshaven case.
- I am the coordinator of a special-interest group on AI, Ethics and Law of the new UU focus area Human-centered AI.
- I take part in the 19 million euro NWO Gravity project on Hybrid Intelligence.
- My invited talk Abstract argumentation does not exist at the ILLC Workshop on The wisdom and madness of crowds: argumentation, information exchange and social interaction.
- A new online complaints system of the Dutch Police has ASPIC+ inside. See also Schraagen et al. (2018).
- I was interviewed about the 'robot judge' in the Dutch newspaper Trouw.
- Some recent and forthcoming papers:
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