2026 Program

Listed in local Berkeley time

Tuesday, March 3

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Breakfast
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Conference registration and badge pickup open for Junior Scholars Workshop participants and for main conference participants
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Junior Scholars Workshop
Building 14, Clark Kerr Campus (near Krutch Theatre)

By application only (applications are now closed).
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch

1:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Welcome
Clark Kerr Conference Center
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM
Opening Address
Clark Kerr Conference Center

2:15 PM – 4:00 PM
Paper Session: AI Copyright and Privacy
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Session Chair: Sarah Scheffler
2:15 PM – 2:40 PM
A. Feder Cooper, Allison Casasola, Ahmed Ahmed, Aaron Gokaslan, Amy B. Cyphert, Chris De Sa, Mark A. Lemley, Daniel E. Ho, Percy Liang. “Extracting memorized pieces of (copyrighted) books from open-weight language models.” (Non-archival)
2:40 PM – 3:05 PM
Rachel Hong, Jevan Hutson, William Agnew, Imaad Huda, Tadayoshi Kohno, Jamie Morgenstern. “A Common Pool of Privacy Problems: Legal and Technical Lessons from a Large-Scale Web-Scraped Machine Learning Dataset.” (Archival)
3:05 PM – 3:30 PM
Aloni Cohen. “Blameless Users in a Clean Room: Defining Copyright Protection for Generative Models.” (Non-archival)
3:30 PM – 3:55 PM
Parth Nobel, Alan Z. Rozenshtein, Chinmayi Sharma. “Unbundling AI Openness.” (Non-archival)
3:55 PM – 4:30 PM
Break
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Lightning Talk Session 1
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Session Chair: Johanna Gunawan

Lauren M. Chambers, Diag Davenport. “Putting the ‘Practice’ in Critical Technical Practice: A Decision-Making Pedagogy for the Public Interest Technology Clinic.”

Shira Gur-Arieh. “Ambiguity Collapse.”

Andreas Haupt. “Self-Preferencing as a Fairness Provision: A General Definition.”

Elena L. Glassman, Chelse Swoopes, Aileen Nielsen. “AI-Resiliency in Legal Work: A Heuristic Evaluation of LLM-Based Workflow Support Tools in Research and Practice.”

A. Feder Cooper, Ahmed Ahmed, Sanmi Koyejo, Percy Liang. “Extracting books from production language models.”

Christoph Busch. “Consumer Law for AI Agents.”

Mark Paes, Eugene Spafford. “Governance Control Mechanisms and Validations for PETs for Privacy and Civil Liberty Concerns in Enterprise AI Monitoring.”

Talia Schwartz, Chen Wang. “Assessing LLM Bias in Judicial Decision-Making: The Effect of Race, Gender and Priming on LLMs’ Conviction Predications.”

Theodora Worledge, Othman Bensouda Koraichi, Daniel Bernal, Aviv Caspi, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Carlos Guestrin, David Engstrom. “AI Assistance for Court Review of Default Judgments.”

Chang Wang, Jason D. Hartline, Chenhao Zhang. “The Inherent Communication Channel of Learning and Algorithmic Collusion.”

Quan Ze Chen, Vinay Koshy, Kevin Feng, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Amy Zhang. “Leveraging Legal Case-Based Reasoning for Accountable AI Governance.”

Yu Fan, The LEXam Team. “LEXam-v2: A Global Effort on Benchmarking Legal Reasoning.”

Junzhe Jiang, Bo Li, Minming Li. “Position-Aware RAG for Strategic Legal Advocacy.”

Aishani Dutta. “PQC4P2FD: Post-Quantum Cryptography 4 Privacy-Preserving Fraud Detection.”

Zachary Cooper. “The Innovation Paradox: How Technological and Creative Progress Confound Copyright.”

Sonia Katyal, Chris Morten. “The Third Enclosure Movement.”

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Poster Session 1
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Lighting Talk Session 1 presenters

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Reception
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Wednesday, March 4

8:00 AM – 8:30AM
Doors Open
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Conference registration and badge pickup open for all participants.
8:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Paper Session: Cryptography
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Session Chair: Aloni Cohen
8:30 AM – 8:55 AM
Jacob Leiken, Sunoo Park. “On the Credibility of Deniable Communication in Court.” (Archival)
8:55 AM – 9:20 AM
Nick Nugent. “Generative Cybersecurity.” (Non-archival)
9:20 AM – 9:45 AM
Artur Pericles Lima Monteiro. “Security Is not Enough.” (Archival)
9:45 AM – 10:10 AM
Julia Len, Esha Ghosh, Paul Grubbs, Paul Rösler. “Interoperability in End-to-End Encrypted Messaging.” (Archival)
10:10 AM – 10:45 AM
Break
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Keynote: Nicole Ozer, Executive Director, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy, UC Law San Francisco — a fireside chat with Danny Weitzner (MIT)
Clark Kerr Conference Center

“The History and Future of Computer Science and Law Collaborations on Privacy Policy”
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch

1:30 PM – 1:55 PM
Paper Session: What is CS and Law?
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Session Chair: James Grimmelmann
1:30 PM – 1:55 PM
Joan Feigenbaum, Daniel Weitzner. “At the Intersection of Computer Science and Law.” (Archival)
1:55 PM – 2:45 PM
CS and Law Panel, featuring Jonathan Mayer, Aloni Cohen, and Felix Wu.
Clark Kerr Conference Center
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM
Break
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM
Paper Session: AI Evaluations
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Session Chair: A. Feder Cooper
3:15 PM – 3:40 PM
Li Zhang, Matthias Grabmair, Morgan Gray, Kevin Ashley. “Thinking Longer, Not Always Smarter: Evaluating LLM Capabilities in Hierarchical Legal Reasoning.” (Non-archival)
3:40 PM – 4:05 PM
Mohamed Afane, Emaan Hariri, Derek Ouyang, Daniel E. Ho. “Benchmarking Legal RAG: The Promise and Limits of AI Statutory Surveys.” (Archival)
4:05 PM – 4:30 PM
Olivia Martin, Varun Magesh, Faiz Surani, Amy Perez, Kit Rodolfa, Daniel E. Ho. “Evaluating Generative AI in Benefits Administration: A Demonstration Project.” (Archival)
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Lightning Talk Session 2
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Session Chair: Kobbi Nissim

Ashwin Murthy, Ramesh Krishnamaneni, Sean Chacon, Kelsey Carlson, Ranjita Naik. “Predicting Juror Predisposition Using Machine Learning: A Comparative Study of Human and Algorithmic Jury Selection.”

Nel Escher, Nikola Banovic, Ben Green. “Algorithm Auditing Policies Rest on Flawed Assumptions About Public Sector Systems.”

Ira Globus-Harris, Nikhil Garg. “Assistant Research Professor.”

Alex Betty. “It’s Delegation: Attributing Liability for Agentic AI Actions.”

Wm. Matthew Kennedy, Savannah Thais, Abhigyan Acherjee, Caitlin Kraft-Buchman. “HumRightsBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Internal Representations of Human Rights Principles in LLMs and LRMs.”

Ro Encarnación, Christen Hammock Jones, Danaé Metaxa. “Auditing LLM Responses in a Complex Policy Landscape: U.S. Abortion Law.”

Kate Donahue, Manish Raghavan. “Impacts of Output Aggregation on Social Welfare & Incentives in Generative AI.”

Yixiong Gao, Minming Li, Ubaid Rehman. “Online Judicial Case Assignment with Quality and Fairness Baselines.”

Chelse Swoopes, Ziwei Gu, Elena L. Glassman. “Interface Design to Support Legal Reading and Writing: Insights from Interviews with Legal Experts.”

Anastasia Karagianni. “From Fairness Metrics to Standards: ‘Verifemmication’ for Reproductive Rights Protection under the EU AI Act.”

Leijie Wang, Amy X Zhang. “Designing Evidence Collection for Reporting Systems in Private Online Spaces.”

Sunayana Rane, Noam Kolt. “Probing Legal Values in Reward Models.”

Tobias Schamel, Robert Mahari. “Automated Detection of Deceptive Behavior and False Statements in Cross-Examinations and Court Hearings.”

Yu Fan, Yang Tian, Joel Niklaus, Jingwei Ni, Alexander Hoyle, Elliott Ash. “Are Large Language Models Smart Enough to Know What They Don’t Know? Evaluating Abstention Behavior in Law.”

Olivia Peiyu Wang, Leilani H. Gilpin. “Beyond the Sentence Level: Evaluating LLM Translation of Legal Terms of Service into First-Order Logic.”

Joe Kwon, Noam Kolt, Hilal Aka. “Evaluating Contextual Illegality: AI Compliance in Corporate Law Scenarios.”

Aaron Tucker. “Reasoning Models Are Not Better at Predicting the Outcomes of Legal Cases.”

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Poster Session 2
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Lighting Talk Session 2 presenters

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Reception
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

Thursday, March 5

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Doors Open
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Conference registration and badge pickup open for all participants.
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Paper Session: Empirics
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Session Chair: Jason Hartline
8:30 AM – 8:55 AM
Naveen Durvasula, Tim Roughgarden. “Quantifying the Benefits of Securities Regulation.” (Archival)
8:55 AM – 9:20 AM
Tomáš Koref, Lena Held, Mahammad Namazov, Harun Kumru, Yassine Thlija, Christoph Burchard, Ivan Habernal. “Mining Legal Arguments to Study Judicial Formalism.” (Non-archival)
9:20 AM – 9:45 AM
Kylie Zhang, Nimra Nadeem, Lucia Zheng, Dominik Stammbach, Peter Henderson. “AI-Assisted Moot Courts: Simulating Justice-Specific Questioning for Supreme Court Oral Arguments.” (Archival)
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM
Break
10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
Paper Session: Algorithmic Fairness
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Session Chair: Bryan Choi
10:15 AM – 10:40 AM
Chris Hays, Benjamin Laufer, Solon Barocas, Manish Raghavan. “Statistical Guarantees in the Search for Less Discriminatory Algorithms.” (Non-archival)
10:40 AM – 11:05 AM
Talia Gillis, Riley Stacy, Sam Brumer, Emily Black. “Algorithmic UDAP.” (Archival)
11:05 AM – 11:30 AM
Emily Black, Logan Koepke, Miranda Bogen, Solon Barocas, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Mingwei Hsu. “Less Discriminatory Algorithms On the Ground: An Empirical Account of Fair Lending Programs.” (Non-archival)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Business Meeting
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Session Chair: Christopher Yoo
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch

1:30 PM – 3:10 PM
Paper Session: Legal Theory
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Session Chair: Rebecca Wexler
1:30 PM – 1:55 PM
Jennifer Wang, Andrew D. Selbst, Solon Barocas, Suresh Venkatasubramanian. “Distinguishing Task-Specific and General-Purpose AI in Regulation.” (Archival)
1:55 PM – 2:20 PM
Niklas Wais, Max Prior, Runsheng Chen. “AppeaLLM: Mimicking a Closed-World Environment for Court Decision Prediction.” (Archival)
2:20 PM – 2:45 PM
Elija Perrier. “Operationalising Extended Cognition: Formal Metrics for Corporate Knowledge and Legal Accountability” (Non-archival)
2:45 PM – 3:10 PM
Courtney Cox. “Hardwiring Hercules?” (Non-archival)
3:10 PM – 3:45 PM
Break
3:45 PM – 5:25 PM
Paper Session: Privacy
Clark Kerr Conference Center

Session Chair: Felix Wu
3:45 PM – 4:10 PM
Siddharth Bhandari, Liren Shan. “Verifying E-discovery Classifiers with Limited Disclosure.” (Non-archival)
4:10 PM – 4:35 PM
Aileen Nielsen, Yafit Lev-Aretz. “Privacy Agents in the Field” (Non-archival)
4:35 PM – 5:00 PM
Shuang Liu, Sarah Scheffler. “Adequately Tailoring Age Verification Regulations.” (Archival)
5:00 PM – 5:25 PM
Jason Hartline, Liren Shan, Alec Sun, Rebecca Wexler. “AI Suppression: E-Discovery Software and Brady.” (Archival)