Symposium on Computer Science and Law

Flagship ACM symposium exploring intersections of computer science, law, policy, and societal impact. CS&Law 2026 5th ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law March 3–5, 2026 Berkeley, California 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 hu... Read more

Flagship ACM symposium exploring intersections of computer science, law, policy, and societal impact. CS&Law 2026 5th ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law March 3–5, 2026 Berkeley, California 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. Registration information can be found here. Information (including the application link) for the Junior Scholars’ Workshop can be found here. Register Call for Papers The call for papers is now live! Please see this page. Submissions for full-length papers and posters are now closed. The submission timeline is summarized below: Full papers (archival and nonarchival) Submissions open: September 2, 2025 Submission deadline: September 30, 2025, Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time Preliminary reviews released to authors: October 31, 2025 Optional responses due: November 7, 2025 Accept/reject notification: December 5, 2025 Camera-ready proceedings papers due: January 16, 2026 Posters Submission deadline: January 20, 2026, Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time Accept/reject notification: February 3, 2026 Print-ready posters due: February 17, 2026 Organizers General Chair: Christopher Yoo (University of Pennsylvania) Outgoing General Chair: Katrina Ligett (Hebrew University) Local Arrangements Chairs: April Delgado (UC Berkeley) and Richard Fisk (UC Berkeley) Program Committee Chairs: James Grimmelmann (Cornell University) and Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown University) Program Committee A. Feder Cooper (Microsoft Research; Stanford) Aleksandra Korolova (Princeton) Alexandra Wood (Harvard) Aloni Cohen (U Chicago) Aniket Kesari (Fordham) Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero (Hebrew University) Bryan Choi (Colorado) Charles Duan (American University) Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania) Cynthia Dwork (Harvard) danah boyd (Cornell) Daniel Ho (Stanford) Daniel Linna (Northwestern) Daniel Martin Katz (Chicago-Kent) Danny Weitzner (MIT) David Stein (Vanderbilt) Felix Wu (Cardozo) Gus Hurwitz (University of Pennsylvania) James Grimmelmann (Cornell) Jason Hartline (Northwestern) Joan Feigenbaum (Yale) Johanna T. Gunawan (Maastricht) Jonathan Mayer (Princeton) Katrina Ligett (Hebrew University) Kelvin F.K. Low (University of Hong Kong) Kevin Ashley (University of Pittsburgh) Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown) Manish Raghavan (MIT) Marco Gaboardi (BU) Mayank Varia (BU) Peter Henderson (Princeton) Rebecca Wexler (Columbia) Robert Mahari (Stanford) Sarah Lawsky (Illinois) Sarah Scheffler (CMU) Shlomi Hod (BU) Steve Bellovin (Georgetown) Talia Gillis (Columbia) Tejas Narechania (Berkeley) Thomas Streinz (EUI, Florence)