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Trevor Bench-Capon
Trevor Bench-Capon read Philosophy and Economics at St John’s College Oxford, where he also took a PhD. His thesis was Can God be an Object of Reference? He was awarded the Henry Wilde Philosophy Prize in 1975 and the John Locke Prize for Mental Philosophy in 1976.
He worked for six years in the UK Department of Health and Social Security, in policy and computer branches before going to Imperial College, London to research into logic programming applied to legislation with Marek Sergot and Bob Kowalski.
He was appointed lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Liverpool in 1987, Senior Lecturer in 1992, Reader in Computer Science
in 1999, and Professor of Computer Science in 2004. He retired in September 2012 and is now an Honorary Professor.
He has been programme chair of several conferences, including ICAIL 1995 and Jurix 2002. He was President of the International Association for AI and Law from 2002-3 and has been co-editor in chief of the journal AI and Law since 2012. In 2006 he founded the series of international conferences on computational argument (COMMA).
He has published extensively on knowledge based systems, ontologies, argumentation, and computational ethics, both in general AI and as applied to law. His primary focus currently is on models of legal argumentation.
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