Programme

Location:
Singapore Management University
School of Social Sciences/College of Integrative Studies (SOSS/CIS)
Level 3, Seminar Room 3-3
10 Canning Rise
Singapore 179873

Schedule
See the schedule of the workshop below. Please note that it is subject to change.


8:00 – Registration and Light Breakfast

9:15 – Opening and Introduction

Session 1 – Legal Agency

9:40 – Reconstructing Legal Agency in Consultation: A Multi-Agent Approach to Fact Construction (Ying-Chu Yu, Sieh-Chuen Huang, and Hsuan-Lei Shao) 

10:10 – Who Speaks When the Agent Speaks? Speech Act Theory and the Limits of Legal Agents (Lucia Franke)

10:30 Coffee break

Session 2 – Legal Reasoning

11:00 – Agents for Legal Reasoning: the DAGA Approach and the Controversial BOSCO Case (Beatriz Pérez, Diego Prieto and Ángel L. Rubio)

11:30 – Generating and Verifying Expert-Level Legal Reasoning: A Proof-of-Concept Study in Polish Criminal Law (Tadeusz Zbiegień, Kamil Mamak, Mikołaj Małecki, Michał Rachalski, Benjamin Shishko, and Przemysław Pałka)

11:50 – Obligation-Producing Actions in Situation Calculus (Kalonji Kalala H, Iluju Kiringa, and Tet Yeap)

12:10 – Jury Simulation with Legal Agents: LLM-Based Persona Models for Deliberation and Decision-Making (Ashwin Murthy and Yasmine Elfeki)

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Keynote (TBA)

14:30 Short break

Session 3 – Regulation & Law

14:45 – Agentic AI and the European AI Act (Georg Borges)

15:15 – Mega-Constellations as Multi-Agent Systems: Autonomous Coordination and the Limits of Space Law (Yunping Liu)

15:35 –  Agentic AI as Legal Intermediary Opportunity and Risk in Access-to-Justice Contexts (Kinga Niemiec)

16:00  Coffee break

Session 4 – Human-agent Collaboration

16:30 – AI-Assisted Patent Drafting for Pro Se Applicants: A Multi-Agent System for Structured Generation and Claim Validation (Ashwin Murthy, Souptik Sen, and Ramesh Krishnamaneni)

16:50 – Human-Agent Collaboration for Generating Patent Claims (Johnson Huang and Jieh-Sheng Lee)

17:10 – Bounded Autonomy for Agentic AI for Legal Argumentation (Eeshaan Singh, Susan Willman, Elizabeth Black, and Ciara O’Regan)

17:10 Closing remarks