2026 Workshop on Law-Following AI
A two-day workshop for legal scholars and technologists interested in the question of how to design agentic AI systems that reliably follow the law.
Overview
Hosted by the Institute for Law & AI (LawAI) and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at Cambridge University, the second annual Workshop on Law-Following AI aims to catalyze research into the design of agentic AI systems that follow human laws. You can learn more about law-following AI in our research article.
The Workshop on Law-Following AI features presentations and discussions from scholars in the fields of law and artificial intelligence. We hope to inspire further research within these fields, in order to inform the concrete design of policies that require AI agents to be law-following.
Content
Designing AI agents to be law-following is likely to accelerate the safe deployment of AI in high-stakes domains while ensuring those gains do not come at the expense of legal accountability and public trust. This workshop focuses on crucial questions in legal scholarship that must be resolved in order to design such systems. Examples of such questions include:
- Which laws should agentic AI systems follow?
- How rigorously should agentic AI systems follow those laws?
- How should a law-following AI system decide whether a contemplated action is likely to violate the law?
- In which contexts should the law require that AI agents be law-following?
A fuller list of research questions is listed in Part VI of our research article on law-following AI.
Attendees interested in presenting new research relating to law-following AI are encouraged to indicate this in their application. Presenting is not required for attendance.
Recordings of talks from the Workshop on Law-Following AI 2025 are available here.
Logistics
- Dates: Thursday, June 11 – Friday, June 12. The evening of Wednesday, June 10 will have an optional (but encouraged) welcome dinner.
- Location: Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
- Attendees: ~100
- Cost: Meals will be provided. If your home institution is unable to cover travel and accommodation, we may be able to provide financial assistance.
- Eligibility: Open to scholars from law, AI, and related fields with an interest in the design of law-following AI systems.
Applications close on March 6, 2026.
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