We are pleased to present the proceedings of JURIX 2024, the 37th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. Organised under the auspices of the Foundation for Legal Knowledge-Based Systems (https://www.jurix.nl), the JURIX annual conference has become established as an internationally renowned forum for the exchange of ideas concerning theoretical models and practical applications in the broadly construed domain of artificial intelligence (AI) and law research, including legal information systems and legal knowledge systems research. Traditionally, the field of AI and Law has been concerned with legal knowledge representation and engineering, logic, and computational models of legal reasoning, legal data analytics, and legal information retrieval, but recent years have witnessed the rise to prominence of the application of machine learning tools to legally relevant tasks. Furthermore, the constantly growing influence of AI on different spheres of social life has prompted interest in the explainability, trustworthiness, and responsibility of computational systems. Indeed, from the outset, the JURIX conferences have been a venue for interdisciplinary research, integrating methods, approaches, and conceptual frameworks from different branches of computer science and jurisprudence, including cognitive and socio-technical dimensions.

The 2024 edition of JURIX, which runs from 11 to 13 December, is hosted by the Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia. For this edition, we received 90 submissions from 220 authors from 32 countries. Following a rigorous review process, carried out by a programme committee of 84 experts recognised in the field, 21 submissions were selected for publication as long papers and 17 as short papers, representing a 23.3% acceptance rate for long papers (42.2% overall). An additional 17 submissions were ultimately accepted as posters. The accepted papers cover a wide range of topics, including formal approaches (case-based reasoning, deontic logic, formal argumentation, and other formalisms) applied to various aspects of legal reasoning, machine learning, natural language processing and information retrieval methods as applied to various legal tasks, hybrid approaches working on the frontiers between symbolic and sub-symbolic methods, experimental inquiries on interfaces between computational systems and legal systems, and network analysis in law.

Two invited speakers, Henry Prakken and Ondrej Bojar, have honoured JURIX 2024 by kindly agreeing to deliver keynote lectures. Henry Prakken is a professor of AI and Law in the Responsible AI group of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University. His main research interests concern AI and Law and computational models of argumentation. He is a past president of the International Association for AI and Law (IAAIL), of the JURIX Foundation for Legal Knowledge-Based Systems and of the steering committee of the COMMA conferences on Computational Models of Argument. He is on the editorial board of several journals, including Artificial Intelligence and Law. Between 2017 and 2022 he was an associate editor of Artificial Intelligence. Ondrej Bojar is a professor and machine translation researcher at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at Charles University in Prague. His research interests include interactive machine translation, machine-translation post-editing, and psycholinguistic aspects of machine translation. He co-authored Moses, a system for statistical machine translation and is a long-term organizer of the WMT Conference on Machine Translation. We are very grateful to them for accepting our invitation and for their inspiring talks.

Continuing the tradition, JURIX is once more accompanied by satellite co-located events: three workshops (CLAIRvoyant, AI4Legs-III, AI4A2J), and the Doctoral Consortium. CLAIRvoyant: ConventicLE on Artificial Intelligence Regulation explores topics such as implications of the European AI Act for business (legal and ethical aspects), the impact of the AI Act on high risk sectors (e.g. healthcare, justice, transport, finance), and standards for legal AI. AI4Legs-III, the 3rd Workshop on AI for Legislation, discusses challenging questions involving the use of AI and technology in general to support the legislative process, with interdisciplinary instruments coming from the philosophy of law, constitutional law, legal informatics including AI and law, computational linguistics, computer science, HCI and legal design. AI4A2J, AI for Access to Justice, focuses on innovations in AI which help to close the access to justice gap – the majority of legal problems that go unsolved around the world fail because potential litigants lack the time, money, or ability to participate in court processes to solve their problems.

Organising this edition would not have been possible without the support of many people and institutions. Special thanks are due to the local organising team, Jakub Harasta, Tereza Novotna, and Jakub Misek, and the Institute of Law and Technology at Masaryk University. We would like to thank the workshop organisers for their proposals and for the effort involved in organising the events. We owe our gratitude to Monica Palmirani, who kindly assumed the function of the Doctoral Consortium Chair. We are particularly grateful to the 84 members of the Programme Committee for their work in the rigorous review process and for their participation in the discussions. Finally, we would like to thank Giovanni Sileno, Michal Araszkiewicz and Morgan Gray for their support and advice, and the current JURIX General Board for their support, advice, and for taking care of all JURIX initiatives.

Jaromir Savelka, JURIX 2024 Programme Chair

Jakub Harasta, JURIX 2024 Organisation Co-Chair

Tereza Novotna, JURIX 2024 Organisation Co-Chair

Jakub Misek, JURIX 2024 Organisation Co-Chair