Jurix 2014 will be held at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, on 10, 11 and 12 December. This year’s chairs are Michał Araszkiewicz (Local Chair) and Rinke Hoekstra (Program Chair).
Announcing JURIX 2014
Call for Papers: JURIX 2013
The 26th International Conference on
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
University of Bologna (Italy),
11th-13th December 2013
http://conference.jurix.nl/2013
Entering a second quarter century of supporting and enhancing cutting edge research in the interface between law and computer technology, the 2013 JURIX conference will take place at the University of Bologna.
Key Themes
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 and eDiscovery;
- 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, including legal open data;
- XML standards for legal documents and rules, 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.
Submission
The deadline for paper submission is September 2nd, 2013. Papers should be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management System,
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurix2013
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 Authors at “LaTex and Word tools for book authors”. 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.
Proceedings
As in past years, our intention is for the conference proceedings to be published by IOS Press (Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC) in their series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications before the Conference.
Workshops and Tutorials
Proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited and strongly encouraged. All proposals, including a short description of the topic, should be sent to the Program Chair by email. There will also be a possibility to publish selected workshop papers with a range of peer reviewed journals, including SCRIPTed.
Doctoral Consortium
*** NEW in JURIX 2013 *** This year for the first time, the Jurix conference will feature a Doctoral Consortium. It will provide graduate students an opportunity to publish short papers and to present posters about their research and to receive feedback and encouragement from the AI and Law community. Further details will be provided later this summer.
Programme Committee
- Michal Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland
- Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
- Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
- Floris Bex, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- 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, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG-CNR, Florence, Italy
- Anne Gardner, Atherton, California, USA
- Thomas F. Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
- Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
- Hans Henseler, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
- Rinke Hoekstra, VU University Amsterdam/University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Jeroen Keppens, King’s College London, United Kingdom
- Thorne McCarthy, Rutgers University, USA
- Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
- Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
- Radim Polcák, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Henry Prakken, Universiteit Groningen & Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Evora & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts, USA
- Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, 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 Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
- Uri Schild, Bar Ilan University, Israel
- Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Bart Verheij, Universiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
- Vern R. Walker, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, USA
- 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
Program Chair
Kevin Ashley,
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
ashley@pitt.edu
Local Organisation Chairs
Monica Palmirani,
CIRSFID, Faculty of Law,
University of Bologna, Italy.
monica.palmirani@unibo.it
Antonino Rotolo,
CIRSFID, Faculty of Law,
University of Bologna, Italy.
antonino.rotolo@unibo.it
Important Dates
- September 2nd September 9th, 2013 Deadline for submission of papers
- September 30th, 2013 Notification of acceptance
- October 7th, 2013 Final, camera-ready copies required
- September 16th, 2013 Deadline for proposals for workshops and tutorials
- December 12th-13th, 2013 Main Conference
- December 11th, 2013 Workshops/Tutorials
The Jurix conferences are held under the auspices of the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems (www.jurix.nl).
W3C Argumentation Community Group
I am pleased to announce that a new W3C Community Group has launched, the Argumentation Community Group. The Argumentation Community Group seeks to facilitate and to promote the use of the Web for all forms of argumentation. The group will discuss and design both argumentation representation formats and systems.
“Argumentation theoretical discussion topics pertinent to the group are available at http://www.w3.org/community/argumentation/wiki/Argumentation_Discussion_Topics and technical discussion topics pertinent to the group are available at http://www.w3.org/community/argumentation/wiki/Technical_Discussion_Topics .
“The Argumentation Community Group’s webpage is available at http://www.w3.org/community/argumentation/ and its public mailing list is available at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-argumentation/.”
The Argumentation Community Group of the W3C seeks to facilitate and to promote the use of the Web for all forms of argumentation. The group will discuss and design both argumentation representation formats and systems.
Argumentation theoretical discussion topics pertinent to the group are available at http://www.w3.org/community/argumentation/wiki/Argumentation_Discussion_Topics and technical discussion topics pertinent to the group are available at http://www.w3.org/community/argumentation/wiki/Technical_Discussion_Topics .
The Argumentation Community Group’s webpage is available at http://www.w3.org/community/argumentation/ and its public mailing list is available at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-argumentation/.
For more information, please contact the group’s chair Adam Sobieski .
CFP: Legal Open Data: from Institutions to Crowd-sourcing (legalOD)
Workshop of ICAIL 2013: XIV International Conference on AI and Law at 10th June 2013 in Rome
http://sinatra.cirsfid.unibo.it/icail2013events/?page_id=5
Venue: Casa dell’Aviatore, Viale dell’Università 20, Rome, Italy
http://icail2013.ittig.cnr.it/index.php/conferencevenue
Description
The time is ripe for investigating the connections between the representation of legal XML texts and open data paradigms. For years these two communities have pursued their goals separately, but now emerging XML-based standards oriented both to legal documents (Akoma Ntoso, CEN Metalex, national XML standards, etc.) and to datasets (Linked open data, DCAT, etc.) justify the possibility to combine their techniques and foster their concrete application in the society. Several legislative institutions (such as Parliaments, Official Gazettes, etc.) have designed and implemented interesting applications that are among the first examples of crowd-sourced web portals managed by citizens, organizations, movements (e.g. Aaron Swartz’s Law, M5S Italian Movement, OpenParlamento, several private GitHub repositories, etc.). Yet, the legal XML standards are among the necessary technologies for enabling a shared mechanism for lawmaking. The open data approach, when implemented by the deliberative institutions, are instrumental to these activities, at least in order to release the authoritative legal sources as starting points for crowd-sourced annotations, thus improving participation, transparency, cooperation and mediation of different interests coming from the society.
This workshop aims to examine the relationships between Legal XML experiences in deliberative and legislative bodies and the Open Data phenomena, including the horizontal cooperation between institutional organizations and private initiatives through crowd-sourcing.
Questions we will try to address:
- Are the deliberative/legislative bodies ready for Legal Open Data?
- How can Legal XML contribute to Legal Open Data?
- How can crowd-sourcing improve the quality of citizen participation to the lawmaking process?
- Which cooperation is possible between public and private sectors?
- Can GitHub and similar initiatives contribute to drive the political debate?
Keynote speakers
Welcome from Gherardo Casini, Global Center for ICT in Parliament, UN/DESA
- Claudio Fabiani, European Parliament
- Carlo Marchetti, Senate of Italy
- Elena F. Candia, Chamber of Deputies of Italy
- Nina Koch, Ministry of Justice and Danish Parliament
- Davide Barillari, Consigliere Movimento 5 Stelle, Regione Lazio
Important dates
Paper submission: May 4th, 2013
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 20th, 2013
Registration fee
Check the ICAIL2013 web site for more information
http://icail2013.ittig.cnr.it/index.php/registration
Submission guidelines
Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aicol2013 as short Papers (8 pages).
Please upload all submissions in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Publication opportunities
Selected papers will be published in AICOL IV book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, by March 2014, after a double peer-review process expected for October 2013.
Program Committee
- Tom Bruce, Cornell University, Legal Information Institute
- Pompeu Casanovas, University Autonoma of Barcelona, IDT
- Tom van Engers, Leibniz Center for Law
- Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG, CNR
- Rinke Hoekstra, VU University Amsterdam/University of Amsterdam
- Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, CIRSFID
- Ugo Pagallo, University of Turin
- Giovanni Sartor, EUI and University of Bologna, CIRSFID
- Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, Department of Computer Science
