Other Academic Activities

[Professional Bodies]  [Media Appearances]  [Events]  [Teaching Related]  [Outreach]  [Reviewing]  [Misc]

Professional Bodies

• I have been appointed to serve on the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF2021) as a member of Sub-panel 11, Computer Science and Informatics.
  
  
• I am an elected member of the Foundation for Legal Knowledge Based Systems (JURIX) Steering Committee.
  
  
• I am an elected member of the Computational Models of Argument (COMMA) Steering Committee.
  
  
• In 2016-2017 I served as President of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law.
  
  
• From 2014-2015 I was Vice-President of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law.
  
  

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Media Appearances

• New Statesman, Spotlight, 3 September 2020. AI Can Spur Real Change in the Legal Sector.
  
  
• The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, BBC Four, December 2019. How can we all win? Discussion of AI and law research in episode 3.
  
  
• BBC Radio 4, June 2016. Artificial intelligence and the law. Discussion of AI and law work at the University of Liverpool on the Law in Action programme.
  
  
• Legal Business, 4 November, 2015. AI and the law tools of tomorrow: a special report.
  
  
• Legal Futures, 5 January, 2015. Artificial intelligence in the law moves a step closer as Riverview teams up with top academics. Report on KTP project with Riverview Law.
  
  
• Liverpool Echo, 22 January, 2015. Big Feature: Merseyside law firm looking to pioneer the use of artificial intelligence in the legal sector. Report on KTP project with Riverview Law.
  
  
• Legal Practice Management magazine, March 2015. Feature article: The Future Has Landed. Interview reporting on artificial intelligence coming to the legal sector.
  
  
• Raconteur, published in The Times and The Sunday Times, February 2015. Role of artificial intelligence in law. Case study on 'Researching for a Legal Robot'.
  
  
• BBC Radio 4, February 2015. When Robots Steal Our Jobs. Discussion of artificial intelligence applied in the legal industry on the Analysis programme.
  
  

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Events

• I was Program Chair of the Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence an Law held in San Diego, USA, in June 2015.
  
  
• I was a Co-Chair of the Eleventh International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2014), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2014, Paris, France in May 2014.
  
  
• I was the Program Chair for the JURIX 2011 conference held In Vienna, Austria, in December 2011.
  
  
• I was the Local Organisation Chair for the JURIX 2010 conference hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool in December 2010.
  
  
• I organised a second edition of a workshop on Modelling Legal Cases as part of the ICAIL 2009 conference.
  
  
• I organised a workshop on Modelling Legal Cases held in December 2007 as part of the JURIX 2007 conference.

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Teaching Related

• Since October 2012, I am external examiner for postgraduate taught degree programmes, primarily "Computing, IT Law and Management", in the Department of Informatics at King's College London.
  
  
• From September 2012 - August 2016 I was external examiner for the undergraduate degree programmes in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Aberdeen.
  
  

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Outreach

• I was previously the Outreach Officer for Computer Science. I led a team that runs a variety of outreach activities designed to educate and enthuse school children about computer science. Information about the activities run for this outreach work can be found on the School website. The current Outreach Officer for Computer Science is Davide Grossi.

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Reviewing and Program Committee Memberships

Program Committee membership:

• Senior Programme Committee member for:Twenty Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAJI 2017), Melbourne, Australia.
  
• Senior Programme Committee member for:Sixteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2017), Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  
• Sixteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2017), London, UK.
  
• Thirty First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2017), San Francisco, California, USA.
  
• Twenty Ninth International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2016), Nice, France.
  
• Twenty Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAJI 2016), New York, NY, USA.
  
• Fifteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2016), Singapore.
  
• Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2016), Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
  
• Sixth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2016), Potsdam, Germany.
  
• Twenty Eighth International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2015), Braga, Portugal.
  
• Fourteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2015), Istanbul, Turkey.
  
• Twenty Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015), Austin, Texas, USA.
  
• Third International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2015), held in conjunction with IJCAI 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  
• Twelfth European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2014), Prague, Czech Republic.
  
• Twenty Seventh International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2014), Krakow, Poland.
  
• Fifth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2014), the Scottish Highlands.
  
• Fifteenth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA 2014), Prague, Czech Republic.
  
• Twenty First European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2014), Prague, Czech Republic.
  
• Eleventh International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2014), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2014, Paris, France.
  
• Twenty Sixth International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2013), Bologna, Italy.
  
• Fourteenth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA 2013), Corunna, Spain.
  
• Second International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2013), held in conjunction with IJCAI 2013, Beijing, China.
  
• Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2013), Rome, Italy.
  
• Twentieth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012), Montpellier, France.
  
• Tenth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2013), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2013, St. Paul, USA.
  
• Fourth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2012), Vienna, Austria.
  
• Fourteenth International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2012), Rome, Italy.
  
• Seventeenth AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium (AAAI-12 Doctoral Consortium), Toronto, Canada.
  
• Ninth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2012), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2012, Valencia, Spain.
  
• Eleventh International Conference on Autonomus Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012), Valencia, Spain.
  
• Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2011), Pittsburgh, USA.
  
• First International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2011), held in conjunction with IJCAI 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
  
• Twenty Second Joint International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011), Barcelona, Spain.
  
• Eighth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2011), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan.
  
• Tenth International Conference on Autonomus Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), Taipei, Taiwan.
  
• Twenty Third International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2010), Liverpool, UK.
  
• Third International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2010), Brescia, Italy.
  
• Seventh International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2010), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2010, Toronto, Canada.
  
• Twenty Second International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2009), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  
• Symposium on the Uses of Computational Argumentation, part of the AAAI 2009 Fall Symposium Series, Washington DC, November 2009.
  
• Ninth Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA 2009), held in conjunction with IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2009.
  
• Symposium on Persuasive Technology and Digital Behaviour Intervention, as part of the AISB 2009 Convention on Adaptive and Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2009.
  
• Sixth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2009), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2009, Hungary, Budapest, 2009.
  
• Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2009), Barcelona, Spain.
  
• Workshop on the Natural Language Engineering of Legal Argumentation: Logic, Language and Computation (NaLELA 2008) held in conjunction with JURIX 2008, Florence, Italy.
  
• Twenty First International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2008), Florence, Italy.
  
• Eighth Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA 2008), held in conjunction with ECAI 2008, Patras, Greece.
  
• Symposium on Persuasive Technology, as part of the AISB 2008 Convention on Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
  
• Fifth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2008), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, 2008.
  
• Twentieth International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2007), Leiden, The Netherlands.
  
• International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2007), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2007, Hawaii, USA, 2007.
  
• Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2007), Stanford, CA, USA.
  
• Seventh Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA 2007), held in conjunction with IJCAI 2007, Hyderabad, India.
  
• First International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2006), Liverpool, UK.
  
• Third International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2006), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2005, Hakodate, Japan.
  
• Second International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2005), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  

Peer reviewer for journals:

• Argument and Computation
  
• Artificial Intelligence
  
• Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
  
• IEEE Intelligent Systems
  
• Journal of Logic and Computation
  
• Knowledge, Rationality and Action, part of Synthese
  
• Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
  

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Other Miscellaneous Activities

• I am a (now honorary) committee member of the Liverpool Interdisciplinary Forum. This is a seminar and discussion group set up by some postgraduate students of Liverpool University to promote interdisciplinary dialogue between the arts and sciences in order to share knowledge with others. The forum offers postgraduate students the chance to present their research to their peers and a wider audience interested in interdisciplinary cooperation and mutual exchange of ideas. Anyone can attend the seminars though presentations are limited to postgraduate students.

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