Jurix 2010: Deadline Extension

September 3rd, 2010 by admin No comments »

The deadline for Jurix 2010 submissions has been extended to September 12th. Please refer to the conference website for more information.

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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.

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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
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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
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. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to
the Springer Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form , which can be obtained
from http://www.springeronline.com, and not exceed 12 pages including
figures, references, etc.
If you use a word file, please follow the instruction of the format,
and then convert it into a pdf form and submit it to
the designated page which will be announced later.
If a paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper must register
the workshop and present it.
Proceedings
A printed volume of the proceedings with ISBN will be available at the
workshop.
Post Proceedings
We are now negotiating with Springer Verlag about publishing selected
papers of the workshop as a volume of LNAI. If it is the case, the
authors of papers presented at the workshop will be asked to extend
their contributions, possibly incorporating the results of the workshop
discussion, to be included in the workshop post-proceedings, after
another round of refereeing.
Note that the selected papers of the first and the second workshops have
been published as volumes of LNAI4914 and LNAI5447 respectively and the
selected papers of the third workshop is now under editing for LNAI
publication.
Financial Support for Students
We have received some budget from JSAI for partial economical support
for travelling costs for promising foreign students whose papers have
been accepted to be presented at JURISIN2010. The amount of the whole
support is 200,000 yen and we divide it to students who need a support.
The actual support will vary based on the number of applicants and
where students come from.
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
Programme Committee Members
Phan Minh Dung, AIT, Thailand
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Nagoya University, Japan
Luong Chi Mai, IOIT, Vietnam
Makoto Nakamura, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Shozo Ohta, University of Tokyo, Japan
Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & Groningen, The Netherlands
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Hajime Sawamura, Niigata University, Japan
Akira Shimazu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Nuanwan Soonthornphisaj, Ksetsart University, Thailand
Fumihiko Takahashi, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
Home page of JURISIN 2010:
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2010.html
preivous JURISIN workshops
JURISIN2007 http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin.html
JURISIN2008 http://www.ntt.dis.titech.ac.jp/jurisin2008/
JURISIN2009 http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/jurisin2009.html
For any inquiry, please send it to “jurisin2010 at nii.ac.jp”.
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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”.

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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.

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Jurix on Twitter

May 21st, 2010 by admin No comments »
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Jurix is now also on Twitter! Follow us via @jurixfoundation.

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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)

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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)

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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

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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

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