The deadline for Jurix 2010 submissions has been extended to September 12th. Please refer to the conference website for more information.
LEX 2010 Summer School: Deadline Extension
July 20th, 2010 by admin 1 comment »
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The registration deadline for the LEX Summer School held from 6th-11th September in Ravenna, Italy has been extended to the 23rd of July. The registration form is available online on the website of the summer school. OASIS members have a 10% discount.
Call for Papers: Jurix 2010
June 8th, 2010 by admin No comments »JURIX 2010 - The 23rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

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University of Liverpool (U.K.), 16th-17th December 2010
http://conference.jurix.nl/2010
For more than 20 years the Jurix Conference has provided an international forum for academics and practitioners in the field of legal informatics for sharing ideas and experiences on the representation of legal content and its representation in computer systems. We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge (foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications). For a list of potential topics see the conference web site.
Papers should be submitted through the Jurix Conference Management System, using PDF, PostScript or Word format, and should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the styles and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors.
The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press (Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC) in their series “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications” before the Conference.
Program Committee Chair
Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Organisation Committee Chair
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, U.K.
Important Dates
- August 29th, 2010 Deadline for submission of abstracts
- September 5th, 2010 Deadline for submission of papers
- September 19th, 2010 Deadline for submission of tutorials, workshops and demonstration proposals
- October 1st, 2010 Notification of paper acceptance
- October 17th, 2010 Camera-ready papers due
- December (14th and) 15th, 2010 Jurix Workshops/Tutorials
- December 16th-17th, 2010 Jurix 2010 Main Conference
Call for Papers: JURISIN 2010
June 7th, 2010 by admin No comments »
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Fourth International Workshop on Juris-informatics(JURISIN 2010)
Nov. 18-19, 2010
Campus Innovation Center Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2010.html
With a support of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, in association with Second JSAI International Symposia on AI (JSAI-isAI 2010)
http://ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai-isai/2010/
Aims and scope
Juris-informatics is a new research area which studies legal issues from the perspective of informatics. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss both the fundamental and practical issues for juris-informatics among people from the various backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional “AI and law” area.
We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics.
Topics
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Legal reasoning
- Argumentation/Argumentation agent
- Legal term ontology
- Formal legal knowledge-base/Intelligent management of legal knowledge-base
- Translation of legal documents
- Computer-aided law education
- Use of Informatics and AI in law
- Legal issues on ubiquitous computing/multi-agent system/the Internet
- Social implications of use of informatics and AI in law
Submissions
We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline:
September 13, 2010
Notification:
October 12, 2010
Camera Ready Copy due:
October 19, 2010
JURISIN 2010:
November 18-19, 2010
Workshop Chair
Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Organizing Committee Members
- Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
- Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
For any enquiry, please send it to “jurisin2010 at nii.ac.jp”.
Wordle captures what Jurix is about
May 26th, 2010 by admin No comments »This Wordle was made using the titles of all papers published in the Jurix conference proceedings since 1991.
Dutch Council of the Judiciary on Digital Legal Sources
May 21st, 2010 by admin 1 comment »
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The periodical “Rechtstreeks” of the Dutch Council of the Judiciary (Raad voor de Rechtspraak) contains an overview by Marc van Opijnen (BISTRO) on the state of the art and new opportunities of Web 3.0 technology for publishing legal sources in general, and court decisions in particular (in Dutch).
Rechtspraak en digitale rechtsbronnen: nieuwe kansen, nieuwe plichten
Sinds de komst van internet is de informatievoorziening voor en door de rechterlijke macht in een stroomversnelling geraakt. Waar rechters en griffiers vroeger vele uren nodig waren om in wetten, tijdschriften en boeken argumenten voor beslissingen bijeen te zoeken kan dat nu via sites en zoekmachines. Toch kan er nog veel verbeterd worden.
In dit nummer van Rechtstreeks geeft de rechtsinformaticus Marc van Opijnen een overzicht van de vele nieuwe verworvenheden op het gebied van bronnenonderzoek, maar hij gaat ook in op de verschillende stagnaties die optreden. Zo is er nog steeds weinig uniformiteit in het weergeven van uitspraken, wetten en regelingen en dreigen gebruikers door een gebrekkige structuur en een overvloed aan informatie de weg kwijt te raken. Hij pleit er daarom voor dat rechters als belangrijke producenten en consumenten van het recht zich meer bewust worden van de ongekende mogelijkheden die de automatisering biedt.
Daarnaast pleit de auteur ervoor dat, nu commerciële uitgevers het monopolie op juridische literatuur zijn kwijtgeraakt, ook andere wettelijke belemmeringen voor een snelle en vrije uitwisseling van teksten en bronnen moeten verdwijnen.
Van Opijnen denkt dat de kosten en inspanningen die een dergelijke omslag van de rechterlijke macht vergt, ruimschoots kunnen worden terugverdiend door de hogere productiviteit en de kwaliteit die erdoor ontstaat. Hij voorziet een situatie waarin rechters al meteen aan het begin van hun werk met één druk op de knop over een handzaam overzicht beschikken van alle bronnen die voor hun zaak van belang kunnen zijn.
http://bit.ly/a3wpGc (pdf)
Research towards online legal aid tool
May 11th, 2010 by admin 1 comment »The universities of Twente and Tilburg received a subsidy for the project `diagnosis and triage for conflicts’. The project will develop and evaluate an online tool for legal aid. The tool is intended to improve people’s self-support and temper unrealistic expectations of chances in court. The University of Twente will focus on psychological aspects, whereas Tilburg University addresses the legal side.
More information about the project can be found here (Dutch):
http://www.utwente.nl/nieuws/ut-onderzoekt-online-tool-voor-rechtshulp
Related projects and contributions by Jurix member organizations:
BEST, http://www.best-project.nl (VU University Amsterdam)
Legal Services Counter (University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University)
RuleML 2010: Call for Papers
May 10th, 2010 by admin No comments »The 4th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2010) will be held near Washington DC (USA), October 21-23, 2010. The symposium is colocated with the 13th International Business Rules Forum, the premier industry conference on business rules. RuleML has a special track on Rules and Norms. For more information see the RuleML 2010 website.
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: May 25, 2010
Paper Submission deadline: June 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance: July 7, 2010
Camera ready due: July 28, 2010
Symposium: October 21-23, 2010
Jurix 2010 in Liverpool
May 10th, 2010 by admin No comments »
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The Jurix 2010 conference will be held in Liverpool, UK. Conference dates are to be decided.
Local Organizer:
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool
Programme Chair:
Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam













