Computing, software, and the Internet now pervade all aspects of society. These systems raise deep and difficult technical questions in computer science, as well as deep and difficult doctrinal and policy questions in law. These two sets of questions are increasingly intertwined, creating a pressing need for research that combines legal and technical tools and that is sound from both a technical and a legal aspect.

The ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law is the flagship conference for the emerging field of computer science and law. It brings together a community—scholars, practicing lawyers, and computing professionals—who are fluent both in computational thinking and its rigorous mathematical formalisms and in legal scholarship and thought with its equally rigorous yet human-centric set of principles, methodologies, and goals. Central to the study of “computer science and law” is the creation of a body of scholarship aimed towards the co-design of law and computing technology to promote social goals. We seek papers that combine rigorous technical computer-science reasoning with rigorous legal analysis to integrate the two disciplines.

The organizers hope to be able to provide financial support to a limited number of people who wish to attend but don’t have adequate funding. Instructions on how to apply for financial support will be posted at a later date. At this time, international participants are urged to get all necessary visa applications processed as early as possible.