-----------------------------------------------------------------------    ProLaLa 2022 -- 1st Workshop on Programming Languages and the Law                        Sunday Jan 16th, 2022                          Philadelphia, PA                      co-located with POPL 2022 -----------------------------------------------------------------------                     (please forward to anyone who might be interested!) We are pleased to announce ProLaLa'22, a new workshop concerned with the intersection of PL (Programming Languages) techniques and the law. We are particularly concerned with the following topics: - language design for legal matters; - static analysis of legal texts; - program synthesis and repair for legal software components; - formal modeling of legal semantics; - non-standard logics in support of legal reasoning; - program verification for legal expert systems. If you have explored any of these areas, we encourage you to submit a short abstract. We are hoping to solidify around this workshop what we believe is a nascent community. As such, the workshop will be informal, and we strongly encourage you to submit ongoing or already-published work in the form of a brief 3-page submission for a long talk, or a 1-page submission for a short talk. Full details: https://popl22.sigplan.org/home/prolala-2022#Call-for-submissions ### Venue ProLaLa will be colocated with POPL'22. If POPL'22 goes virtual, we will be virtual too. If POPL'22 happens in-person, we will support hybrid (in-person and remote) participation. ### Submission details We accept two kinds of submissions. - Long talks: 3 pages excluding references - Short talks: 1 page excluding references No formatting requirements. We recommend using SIGPLAN's two-column LaTeX format if possible. Submission site: https://prolala22.hotcrp.com/ ### Important dates - Thu 28 Oct 2021: Submission deadline - Thu 11 Nov 2021: Notification of acceptance - Sun 16 Jan 2022: Workshop ## Program committee - Timos Antonopoulos, Yale University - Joaquin Arias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain - Shrutarshi Basu, Cornell University, USA - Nate Foster, Cornell University, USA - James Grimmelmann, Cornell University, USA - Sarah Lawsky (Co-Chair), Northwestern University, USA - Denis Merigoux, INRIA, France - Ruzica Piskac, Yale University, USA - Jonathan Protzenko (Co-Chair), Microsoft Research, USA - Giovanni Sartor, University of Bologna, Italy - Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Kanae Tsushima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Meng Weng Wong, Singapore Management University, Singapore