Research scope and coverage

This page explains the scope and current coverage of the Research section and its Research tracker.

Inclusion rules

The collection aims to inventory academic papers with a substantive connection between AI and law. It covers legal rules governing AI, the use of AI in legal work and institutions, and research on legal rights, accountability and access to justice. It includes historical work and contemporary scholarship across jurisdictions, languages and legal traditions.

Eligible formats include journal and law-review articles, conference papers, scholarly working papers and preprints. Scholarly book chapters may be included when they function as a research paper. Technical work qualifies when legal tasks, legal institutions or a substantive legal issue are central. General AI papers with only a passing reference to law fall outside this collection. News, promotional material, ordinary opinion columns, legislation and judgments have other homes on the wiki; the catalogue links relevant coverage where useful.

Records and versions

• Record title, ordered authors, publication date and its precision, venue, publication type, stable identifiers, subjects, jurisdictions or legal traditions, links, a short description and the date of verification.
• Distinguish the first repository posting, later manuscript revisions, online publication and issue date. Use the verified publication date for the catalogue’s year filter; retain earlier posting dates in the record. Do not substitute the date a paper was added to this wiki.
• Group a working paper or preprint and its published version into one record. Use DOI and repository identifiers to match versions, then review title and author differences. Separate genuinely different companion papers rather than merging them on similar titles alone.
• Identify the type of publication. A law-review article or repository posting is not automatically described as peer reviewed. Mark peer review only when the venue or repository evidence confirms it.
• Provide lawful open full-text links where verified. When only an open abstract or bibliographic record was checked, label the link accordingly. A subscription-only publisher version can be identified without claiming its full text was reviewed. Never bypass access controls or republish copyrighted papers.

Verification and descriptions

Check bibliographic details against publisher, author or institutional repository records. Discovery indexes help locate papers; their records do not replace checking the original publication record. Attribute arguments and conclusions to the authors. State the research subject and relevant setting, and keep historical analyses distinct from statements about current law.

The launch catalogue’s short descriptions are based on bibliographic records and abstracts, with targeted checks of publication details and legal settings. Inclusion is a bibliographic decision, not an endorsement, a full-paper review or a guarantee of a paper’s quality. Read the original methods and limitations before relying on a result. Empirical findings describe the models, datasets and testing period studied.

Coverage as of November 1, 2026

469 papers are indexed. The collection is a growing curated selection. No venue, year range, jurisdiction or language has yet been searched exhaustively; absence from the catalogue does not establish that a paper does not exist.

Source group	What was checked for launch	Remaining coverage
Publisher and proceedings records	Selected records from JMLR, ACL Anthology, NeurIPS and Artificial Intelligence and Law, plus DOI publication metadata.	Complete volume and proceedings sweeps, earlier research and additional legal and interdisciplinary journals.
Working papers and repository versions	Selected arXiv records, an NBER working-paper record, and author or university records.	Systematic searches of SSRN, institutional repositories and further working-paper series; reconciliation of all later published versions.
Legal scholarship	Selected work on discrimination, explanations, copyright, liability and regulation.	Broader coverage of criminal law, administrative law, constitutional rights, competition, labor, international law and sector-specific scholarship.
Jurisdictions and languages	Predominantly English-language work concerning the United States and Europe, with one benchmark covering Islamic legal traditions.	Non-English scholarship and fuller coverage of APAC, Africa, Latin America and other legal traditions.

A November 2026 review of a supplied 304-record bibliography added 266 works after scope and duplicate checks. Some records were reviewed against publisher-deposited bibliographic metadata and their titles only; those entries identify that limit. Other additions use publisher, institutional or conference records and abstracts. This review does not establish a complete sweep of any venue or year.

Sources for expanding the inventory

The next source sweeps should cover complete volumes of Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL and JURIX proceedings, followed by legal and interdisciplinary journals. ACL Anthology, DBLP, OpenAlex, Crossref, SSRN, arXiv and university repositories can supply further leads and version matches. These are discovery routes; listing one here does not claim that it has been fully searched.

For each sweep, record the venue or repository, query or volume range, date checked, records included, duplicate/version matches, exclusions and unresolved access or metadata problems. Update this coverage page when a documented sweep changes what readers can reasonably expect to find.

Corrections and maintenance

Correct author names, identifiers, links and publication status against the original records. Preserve the work’s stable catalogue anchor when correcting a title or adding a later version. Record retractions, withdrawals and material corrections visibly with a verified source; retain bibliographic history rather than silently treating a withdrawn work as current evidence. Related wiki pages should link to the same record, rather than duplicate the bibliography.

New catalogue entries and historical backfills do not by themselves create a news event. Keep the separate Policy, Governance, Cases and Legislation and Regulation coverage focused on their own subjects.