CS&Law 2027

6th ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law

March 23-25, 2027

Chicago, Illinois

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.

Call for Papers

Here is the call for papers.

The submission timeline is summarized below:

Full papers (archival and nonarchival)

 

    • Submissions open: September 22, 2026

    • Submission deadline: October 20, 2026, Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time

    • Preliminary reviews released to authors: November 20, 2026

    • Optional responses due: November 30, 2026

    • Accept/reject notification: January 2, 2027

    • Camera-ready proceedings papers due: February 5, 2027

    • Conference dates: March 23-25, 2027 at Northwestern University (Downtown Chicago)

Posters

  • Submission deadline: February 9, 2027, AoE time
  • Accept/reject notification: February 23, 2027
  • Print-ready posters due: March 9, 2027

Organizers

General Chair:

Talia Gillis, Columbia University

Outgoing General Chair:

Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania

Local Arrangements Chairs:  

Aloni Cohen, University of Chicago
Jason Hartline, Northwestern University
Daniel Linna, Northwestern University

Program Committee Chairs:

Aniket Kesari, Fordham University 
Kobbi Nissim, Georgetown University

Publicity Chairs: 

Sebastian Zimmeck, Wesleyan University
Yu Fan, The University of Hong Kong; ETH Zürich

Juniors Workshop Chairs: 

Johanna Gunawan, Maastricht University
Neel Guha, Columbia University

Finance Chairs: 

Joan Feigenbaum, Yale University
Bryan Choi, University of Colorado Boulder
Daniel Linna, Northwestern University