Following many requests for  extension, the deadline for submission of position papers (from 1 to 5 pages) to the Fundamental Concepts and the Systematization of Law workshop (FCASL) has been extended to

DECEMBER 10, 2012

We are looking forward to your submissions.

There will be a possibility to extend the papers after the workshop and before the publication.

The workshop website is available at www.fundamentalconcepts2012.wordpress.com.

Hajime Yoshino and Michał Araszkiewicz

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 7 September 2012

Location: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Main Conference: 18-19 December 2012
Workshops: 17 December 2012

Visit the conference website at http://conference.jurix.nl/2012

Programme Committee

• Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Zsolt Balogh, University of Pecs, Hungary
• Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
• Floris Bex, University of Dundee, UK
• Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Pompeu Casanovas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
• Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Reuters, USA
• Tom van Engers, Leibniz Center for Law, The Netherlands
• Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG-CNR, Florence, Italy
• Anne Gardner, Atherton, USA
• Thomas F. Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
• Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
• Carole D. Hafner, Northeastern University, USA
• Rinke Hoekstra, VU University Amsterdam/University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Arno R. Lodder, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Thorne McCarthy, Rutgers University, USA
• Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Laurens Mommers, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
• Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
• Radim Polčák, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
• Henry Prakken, Universiteit Groningen & Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Evora & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Antonio Rotolo, University of Bologna, Italy
• Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Florence – Cirsfid, University of
• Bologna, Italy
• Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
• Erich Sweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
• Uri Schild, Bar Ilan University, Israel
• Bart Verheij, Universiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
• Douglas N. Walton, University of Windsor, Canada
• Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands
• Adam Wyner, University of Liverpool, UK
• John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

A bicyclist in Amsterdam. (Photo credit: Massimo Catarinella)

The 25th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
University of Amsterdam,  The Netherlands, 17-19th December 2012

http://conference.jurix.nl/2012

Celebrating 25 years of supporting and enhancing cutting edge research in the interface between law and computer technology, the 2012   JURIX
conference  will return to its roots in  Amsterdam.  We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal
information and knowledge, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications for the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

• Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
• Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation;
• Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
• Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
• Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
• Support for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods;
• Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks;
• Retrieval of legal information;
• Legal education;
• Digital-rights management;
• Alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line;
• Regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
• Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain;
• Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures;
• Legal inference and argumentation;
• Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems;
• Management of legal information in the semantic web;
• XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
• Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions;
• Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems;
• Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications;
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems.

The deadline for paper submission is 1 September  2012. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair Conference Management System,

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurix2012

using PDF or Word format, and should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the styles and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the IOS Press site under “Book Publishing” in the “Authors’ Corner”. Authors are strongly encouraged to use these style sheets, as papers not meeting the publisher’s criteria or exceeding the page limit will be excluded from inclusion in the proceedings.

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.

Proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited and strongly encouraged. All proposals, including a short description of the topic, should be sent to the Programme Chair by email. There will also be a possibility to publish selected workshop papers with a range of peer reviewed journals, including SCRIPTed

Programme Chair:
Burkhard Schafer,
SCRIPT Centre for IT and IP Law
University of Edinburgh,  UK.
b.schafer@ed.ac.uk

Local Organisation Chair:
Tom van Engers, Leibniz Center for Law
Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid/Faculty of Law
Universiteit van Amsterdam
vanEngers@uva.nl

Conference website:

http://conference.jurix.nl/2012/cfp.html

Important Dates:

• EXTENDED Deadline for submissions of papers: 7. September 2012
• Notification of acceptance: 30th September
• Final, camera-ready copies required by: 5th October 2012
• Deadline for proposals for workshops and tutorials: 15. September
• Conference: main conference 17-18th  December, workshops 17th December

JURIX conferences are held under the auspices of the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.

Contacts
You can contact us by sending an email to
Burkhard Schafer, B.schafer@ed.ac.uk

(second call for applications)

PhD position Artificial Intelligence and Forensic Science (Utrecht
University; 1,0 fte)

Job description

This PhD position is part of the project "Designing and Understanding
Forensic Bayesian Networks with Arguments and Scenarios" that is funded
by the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Research in the Forensic
Science program (www.nwo.nl/forensicscience). The project is a
cooperation of the University of Groningen (Department of Artificial
Intelligence) and Utrecht University (Department of Information and
Computing Sciences) supported by partners from forensic legal practice.

In order to prevent miscarriages of justice such as the infamous Lucia
de Berk case, the communication between forensic statisticians, crime
investigators and lawyers about statistical evidence should be improved.
It is well-known that lawyers and other non-experts in statistics often
make serious mistakes when confronted with statistical evidence, while
there is ample evidence that lawyers tend to think in terms of arguments and scenarios.
Therefore the project aims to develop methods for supporting
argumentation- and narrative-based communication about statistical
evidence. Both the design and the understanding of models of evidence
will be investigated.

This study will be carried out in two subprojects, addressing,
respectively, argumentation and narrative techniques. Both subprojects take the statistical
formalism of Bayesian Networks as point of departure. In the subproject
performed at Utrecht University, argumentation techniques for the design
and understanding of models of evidence will be developed, based on
logical models of argumentation developed in Artificial Intelligence.

The project is the first that addresses the communicative gap between
forensic statisticians, crime investigators and lawyers, by combining
Bayesian Networks with Artificial Intelligence models of scenario
construction and argumentation.

On request, we can send you the full plan for the project. In that case,
and for other questions, please contact Prof.dr. Henry Prakken.

Requirements

A successful candidate has a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence,
Computer Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, or a related field, and has
an interest in formal research in argumentation, narrative techniques
and Bayesian Networks, and their application in forensic contexts.

Conditions of employment

Utrecht University offers a salary of € 2,042 gross per month in the
first year up to a maximum of 2,612 gross per month in the final year.
The appointment is for a period of four years, which should be finished
with a PhD examination. The full time appointment is temporary for 1.5
years with the perspective of prolongation for another 2.5 years. After
the first year, there will be an evaluation of the feasibility of
successful completion of the PhD thesis within the next three years. You
and your supervisors will make up a plan for additional education and
supervising that is specific to your needs.

How to apply:

Send a cover letter (with professional goals and a statement of
interest), a curriculum vitae and two letters of recommendation (PDF
format) to the job application portal before March 17th, although
applications received after the deadline may be considered.

Starting date: as soon as possible.

Organisation

The PhD student will be based at Utrecht University (Faculty of Science,
Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Intelligent Systems
group). The group has a world-class reputation in the fields of
Intelligent Agents, Multi-Agent systems, Argumentation, AI & law, and
Bayesian Networks. Daily supervision will be performed by Dr. B. Verheij
(principal investigator), Prof.dr.mr. H. Prakken and Dr. S. Renooij.

Additional information

Prof. Dr. Henry Prakken

H.Prakken@uu.nl

Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Faculty of Science,
Utrecht University

More information about the project: www.ai.rug.nl/~verheij/nwofs

More information about employer Utrecht University on AcademicTransfer.

Direct link to this job opening:
http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UU/vacancy/13124/lang/en/

The submission deadline for the JURIX 2011 Conference has been extended until the 9th of September.

See the conference website for more details: http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/JURIX2011/