5th international workshop
KM4LAW – Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law
Co-located with the 25th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2026)
29 September - 1 October 2026, Torino (Italy)
Academic interest in legal informatics has expanded significantly, driven by the need to support public administrations, courts, and private companies in managing complex legal work. Today, legal systems generate unprecedented volumes of digital data—from legislation and judgments to contracts and administrative event logs. Simultaneously, breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs), Knowledge Representation, and Process Mining are reshaping how we extract, model, and operationalize this knowledge.
Transformers and LLMs are quickly becoming integral to legal practice, proving effective for tasks like summarization, classification, and judgment prediction. However, given the inherent complexity of legal sources, simply extracting information is not enough. This knowledge often must be formalized into ontological models to clarify links between legal norms, enable semi-automatic interpretation, and ensure strict legal validity. Furthermore, as organizations increasingly rely on automated systems, analyzing legal event logs via process mining techniques has become essential to discover actual procedures, verify regulatory compliance, and predict case trajectories.
While these technologies offer immense potential, they introduce critical challenges around explainability, accountability, and trustworthiness. These issues are particularly urgent in interconnected European and international contexts, where multilingual legal NLP, semantic alignment of ontologies across jurisdictions, and cross-lingual reasoning are vital for achieving true semantic interoperability.
The Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law (KM4LAW) workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum to explore these developments. By bringing together traditionally distinct research communities across AI & Law, Semantic Technologies, NLP, and Business Process Management, KM4LAW aims to foster collaboration and pioneer human-centered approaches for the next generation of legal information systems. Addressing these areas, the workshop directly supports the core themes of EKAW 2026.
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PREVIOUS KM4LAW EDITIONS
4th edition
KM4LAW – The Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law workshop
Co-located with the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025)
4-12 September 2025 (Catania, Italy)
CFP KM4LAW 2025 – PROGRAM KM4LAW 2025 – ORGANIZATION KM4LAW 2025
3rd edition
KM4LAW – The Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law workshop
Co-located with the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024)
15-19 July 2024 (Enschede, Netherlands)
CFP KM4LAW 2024 – PROGRAM KM4LAW 2024 – ORGANIZATION KM4LAW 2024
2nd edition
KM4LAW – The Knowledge Management for Law workshop
Co-located with the 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023)
July 17-20, 2023 (Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)
CFP KM4LAW 2023 – PROGRAM KM4LAW 2023 – ORGANIZATION KM4LAW 2023
1st edition
KM4LAW – The Knowledge Management for Law workshop
23rd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
26-29 September 2022 – Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
CFP KM4LAW 2022 – PROGRAM KM4LAW 2022 – ORGANIZATION KM4LAW2022
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