Henry Prakken's teaching at Utrecht University.
In Utrecht I teach the following courses:
- Recht en Informatica (Law and Computer Science). Bachelor programmes Informatica (Computer Science) and Informatiekunde (Information Science).
- Computational Argumentation (formerly known as Commonsense Reasoning and Argumentation). Master programme Artificial Intelligence. Visit the course page for a downloadable reader (updated January 2024, no new text or topics but various corrections made compared to the version of Sept. 2023) and slides (all under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC 4.0). The version of August 2024 is identical to the one of January 2024.
- In Utrecht I also supervise master theses AI, mostly on computational argumentation, AI & law and machine ethics.
In Groningen I taught part of a bachelor course called E-thics (2018-2023, two lectures on legal AI applications), and a bachelor course on legal argumentation (2015-2023, in Dutch: official name Juridische Argumentatie. My reader for the latter course (in Dutch) is downloadable under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0, which means that you are free to use it for non-commercial purposes as long as you acknowledge the original source, including my name. Earlier I taught courses on Computer Law for non-law students (2005-2014, half of the course, in Dutch) and on Legal Knowledge-Based Systems (2004-2011, in Dutch) and I gave lectures on legal argumentation in various other courses.
I gave series of guest lectures on several occasions:
- Formalizing Practical Argumentation, Department of Computer Science, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca (Argentina), June 1998.
- Argumentation Logics, Institute of Logic and Intelligence, Southwest University, Chongqing (China), May 26 - June 4, 2010.
- AI in Court, UNA Digitalized! Masterclass, Jagiellionian University, Krakow (Poland), 29 August - 2 September 2022.
- AI in Court (updated version), Department of Law, University of Bologna (Italy), 19-28 November 2024.
I co-organise(d) two summerschools at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy):
I co-organised the Spring School on Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Law, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou (China), 10-12 April 2018.
I have given tutorials on several occasions. For example:
- Tutorial on AI & Law, given as part of the course Trends and Topics in Multi-Agent Systems of SIKS, the Netherlands research school for Information and Knowledge Systems. Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 6th, 2019.
- Tutorial Introduction to formal models of argumentation for the Dundee Summerschool on Argumentation: Computational and Linguistic Perspectives, September 4th, 2014.
- Tutorial Formal Models of Balancing in Legal Cases for JURIX 2014, December 10th, 2014.
- Tutorial Argumentation in Law for ACAI 2013, the ACAI Summerschool on Computational Models of Argument, King's College London, UK, 1-5 July, 2013.
All my teaching material downloadable from the above webpages is available under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0, which means that you are free to use it for non-commercial purposes as long as you acknowledge the original source, including my name. Please read my note on copyright.