Workshop Aims and Scope

DMAIL 2026 invites high-quality research contributions at the intersection of data mining, artificial intelligence, and law. The workshop welcomes work on legal analytics, intelligent legal systems, trustworthy and explainable legal AI, large-scale legal data mining, and practical deployments in legal and policy environments.

Submissions may contribute high-quality datasets, novel methodologies, evaluations, benchmarks, systems, and real-world applications within data mining and AI for law.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Large-scale legal datasets and benchmarks
  • Foundation models and LLMs for legal AI
  • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for legal applications
  • Legal reasoning and neuro-symbolic AI
  • AI-assisted judicial decision prediction
  • Legal document understanding and summarization
  • Legal information retrieval and citation analysis
  • Multimodal legal analytics
  • Knowledge graphs and structured legal intelligence
  • Contract analytics and regulatory compliance mining
  • AI for legislation and policy analysis
  • Explainable and trustworthy legal AI
  • Bias, fairness, and accountability in legal AI
  • Privacy-preserving AI for legal systems
  • Human-AI collaboration in legal workflows
  • Agentic AI systems for legal tasks
  • Cross-lingual and multilingual legal NLP
  • Legal misinformation and fact verification
  • AI governance and responsible AI for law
  • Applications of generative AI in legal practice
  • Industrial applications of legal AI
  • Real-world deployments and case studies
  • Other related topics

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must contain original work not previously published or under consideration elsewhere. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages plus 2 extra pages in the IEEE two-column format.

All submissions will be triple-blind reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, relevance to the scope of the workshop, originality, significance, and clarity.

Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through EasyChair. The submission link is TBA.

Legal Bias Flagging Challenge

We will also organize the Legal Bias Flagging Challenge at DMAIL 2026. This challenge offers participants the opportunity to work with diverse, multilingual legal datasets while addressing a critical ethical issue in legal AI.

Participants are encouraged to submit a short paper describing their method, results, and insights. Challenge papers should be no more than 4 pages and must follow the standard two-column U.S. letter IEEE conference format. Authors of accepted papers must present their work at DMAIL 2026 to have their paper included in the official workshop proceedings.

More challenge details will be announced later.