Dr. Edwina L. Rissland

Phone: (413) 545-3639
Fax: (413) 545-1249
Email: rissland@cs.umass.edu

Edwina L. Rissland received her Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics with Honors magna cum laude from Brown University, M.A. in Mathematics from Brandeis University, and the Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT in 1977. She has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since 1979. She currently holds the rank of Professor. Recognized as a founder and world leader in the areas of Case-Based Reasoning and AI and Law, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1991.

After receiving her doctorate, she remained at MIT as an Instructor and Research Associate in the Mathematics Department for two years. In September 1979, she joined the Department of Computer Science at UMass. For the 1982-83 academic year, she was a Fellow of Law and Computer Science at the Harvard Law School. Since 1985, she has held an appointment as Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School, where she teaches a seminar on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning during the Fall semester.

Her current areas of research include case-based reasoning, AI and legal reasoning, knowledge acquisition and machine learning, and CBR and intelligent information retrieval.

Professor Rissland is Liaison on Law and AI for the AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence). She is currently Vice President of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law. She has served on numerous program committees, including the annual national conference of the AAAI, and every one of the biennial international conferences on AI and Law, which began in 1987. She was Co-Editor of the MIT Press series on AI and Law and is a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Artificial Intelligence and Law. She is a co-author of the text Cognitive Science: An Integrated Approach published by MIT Press/Bradford Books, and about to be issued in its Second Edition.

Professor Rissland has lectured widely on AI, AI and Law, and Case-based Reasoning. Currently she is principal investigator for several research projects on case-based reasoning; grant support for these projects includes DARPA and the NSF, as well as private industry. She has been an author on over fifty articles and books and regularly publishes in the yearly AI conferences, such as AAAI and IJCAI. She frequently consults with industry and government on these topics.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Rissland, E.L., Skalak, D.B., & Friedman. M.T. "BANKXX: A Program to Generate Argument through Case-Based Search." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL-93) , Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 1993. pp. 117-124.

• Skalak, D.B. & Rissland, E.L. "Arguments and Cases: An Inevitable Intertwining." Artificial Intelligence and Law-An International Journal, Kluwer Publishing, pp. 3-44, Fall 1992.

• Rissland, E. L., & Skalak, D. B. "CABARET: Statutory Interpretation in a Hybrid Architecture." International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, June, 1991. (34):839-887.

• Rissland, E. L. "Artificial Intelligence and Law: Stepping Stones to a Model of Legal Reasoning." Yale Law Journal, Vol. 99, No. 8, June 1990, pp. 1957-1982.

• Skalak, D. B., & Rissland, E. L. "Inductive Learning in a Mixed Paradigm Setting." Proceedings National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90), Boston, MA, August 1990, pp. 840-847.

• Rissland, E. L. "Dimension-based Analysis of Hypotheticals from Supreme Court Oral Argument." Proceedings Second International Conference on AI and Law, Vancouver, BC, June 1989, pp. 111-120.

• Rissland, E. L. "Artificial Intelligence and Law." AI Magazine, Fall, 1988, pp. 45-55. Reprinted, in Spanish, in Derecho y tecnologia informatica, Bogota, September 1989.

• Ashley, K. D., & Rissland, E. L. "A Case-Based Approach to Modelling Legal Expertise." IEEE Expert, 1988, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 70-77.

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