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21 May 2010, 6:19 pm
Fabrizio Macagno of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Dipartimento di Linguistica and Professor Douglas Walton of the University of Windsor Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric have published Dichotomies and Oppositions in Legal Argumentation, 23 Ratio Juris No. 2, pages 229-257 (2010). Here is the abstract:
In this paper we use a series of examples to show how oppositions and dichotomies are fundamental in legal argumentation, and vitally important to be aware of,… [read post]
22 Nov 2012, 1:08 pm
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 26 November 2012 — has been issued for the Jurix 2012 workshop entitled Legal Resources from Text to Rules, to be held 20 December 2012 in Amsterdam.
The workshop is being held in conjunction with JURIX 2012: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, being held 17-20 December 2012 at Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam.
Here are details of the workshop:
The time is ripe for investigating the… [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 1:56 pm
Sandra Meredith, M.A., of the Oxford University Faculty of Law, has published OSCOLA: A UK Standard for Legal Citation, Legal Information Management, 11, 111-114 (2011). Here is the abstract:
OSCOLA, the Oxford Standard for the Citation Of Legal Authorities, was first devised in 2000. The fourth edition, published in November 2010, includes for the first time guidelines for citing Scottish, Irish and Welsh cases and legislation, historical legal sources and new media such as blogs. It also provides… [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 8:58 pm
Associate Dean Ward Farnsworth of Boston University School of Law, and colleages, have published Ambiguity About Ambiguity: An Empirical Inquiry into Legal Interpretation, forthcoming in Journal of Legal Analysis. Here is the abstract:
Most scholarship on statutory interpretation discusses what courts should do with ambiguous statutes. This paper investigates the crucial and analytically prior question of what ambiguity in law is. Does a claim that a text is ambiguous mean the judge is uncertain… [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 2:38 am
Nicole Black hosts Blawg Review #254 in celebration of International Women's Day, National Women's History Month and the 30th anniversary of the National Women's History Project. Hopefully, many of our followers will link to this Blawg Review #254 on their blogs and in their tweets on International Women's Day using the hastag #iwd on Twitter. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 5:59 pm
Dr. Rinke Hoekstra of the University of Amsterdam’s Leibniz Center for Law has posted slides of a presentation entitled The MetaLex Document Server: Legal Documents as Versioned Linked Data.
The slides describe an approach in which regulations from the Wetten.nl site were processed to enable improved public access, re-use, and inclusion of data in the Semantic Web. Regulations were marked up in CEN MetaLex XML format; persistent, “Cool” URIs — generated from Juriconnect URNs — were added… [read post]
24 Feb 2013, 3:32 pm
Kelly Lynn Anders, JD has published Ethical Exits: When Lawyers and Judges Must Sever Ties on Social Media, Charleston Law Review, Vol. 7, 187-205 (2012-2013).
Here is the abstract:
This article addresses the very recent trend of requiring lawyers and judges to sever ties on social media, the professional implications of doing so, relevant rules governing judicial and attorney conduct, and a discussion of “best practices” for lawyers and judges to follow when social media connections… [read post]
13 Nov 2011, 4:35 pm
Michael J. Bommarito II of Computational Legal Studies has begun a new series of posts entitled 21st Century Legal Informatics.
The initial post in the series presents Mr. Bommarito’s visions of the role of technology in law practice in the 20th, 21st, and 22nd centuries. He views the current century as a transitional period between a library-based model of legal research, practice, and publishing, and a future era in which artificial intelligence applications perform most functions of… [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 11:08 am
I don't know if Eric Turkewitz remembers me suggesting he use this one of Hugh MacLeod's Gaping Void cartoons on the back of a business card for his "blog card". This week, Eric tries to find happiness hosting his third Blawg Review, this time with a Halloween theme. I rest my case. [read post]
23 May 2010, 1:25 pm
Professor Enrico Francesconi of Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica and ITTIG/CNR will present a paper entitled Legal Rules Learning Based on a Semantic Model for Legislation (for the full text of the paper, click here for the conference proceedings in PDF and scroll down to the page numbered 46) at SPLeT 2010: The 3rd Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts, to be held 23 May 2010 in Malta.
The workshop is part of LREC 2010: The 7th International… [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 7:56 pm
Professor Stephanie Davidson of the University of Illinois College of Law has posted the abstract of Way Beyond Legal Research: Understanding the Research Process of Legal Scholars, in the SSRN Legal Information & Technology E-journal. Here is the abstract:
“How do legal scholars seek, find, and manage information in the course of producing a scholarly article or book? While the topic of legal research has been explored in the literature, few studies have been conducted exploring the research… [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 2:01 pm
Dr. Francien Dechesne of the Delft University of Technology Centre for Ethics and Technology, and colleagues, have published No smoking here: values, norms and culture in multi-agent systems , forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law . Here is the abstract: We use the example of the introduction of the anti-smoking legislation to model the relationship between the cultural make-up, in terms of values, of societies and the acceptance of and compliance with norms. We present two agent-based… [read post]
31 Mar 2013, 3:03 pm
Professor Dr. Massimiliano Ferrara of Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria – Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, and Angelo, Roberto Gaglioti of MEDAlics, have published Law as a System of Proportions and Symmetries, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Business and Economics (MCBE ’12), World Scientific Engineering Academy and Society, 13th-15th June, 2012 Enescu Academy, Iasi, Romania (pp. 136-140).
Here is the abstract:
This paper… [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 5:42 pm
A preview is now available of the open access digital legal casebooks being developed as part of the eLangdell Project sponsored by CALI: The Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction.
The preview — which consists of portions of Roger C. Park and Douglas D. McFarland’s Evidence for Civil Procedure Students — is available in several formats: ePub, mobi, PDF, and HTML, and is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
Click here for more information about the eLangell… [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 7:31 am
Pierre Schlag, University of Colorado Law School, has published The Faculty Workshop as University of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-12. Here is the abstract.This essay explores the ubiquitous law school institution, “The Faculty Workshop,” as an entrée into and manifestation of contemporary American legal thought. The Faculty Workshop is examined both as a regulator and expression of legal thought - at once governance system and symptom. We close by discussing “Stage… [read post]
6 Feb 2010, 5:11 pm
Professor Ronald W. Staudt of the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, has published All the Wild Possibilities: Technology that Attacks Barriers to Access to Justice, forthcoming in Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. Here is the abstract:
Predicting how technology will affect the future of the legal profession is difficult and unreliable work. I have made my share of such predictions in the past thirty years, including foretelling the death of the paper casebook in law… [read post]
22 Nov 2012, 1:08 pm
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 26 November 2012 — has been issued for the Jurix 2012 workshop entitled Legal Resources from Text to Rules, to be held 20 December 2012 in Amsterdam.
The workshop is being held in conjunction with JURIX 2012: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, being held 17-20 December 2012 at Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam.
Here are details of the workshop:
The time is ripe for investigating the… [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 11:10 pm
[Update 20 April 2011: Click here for video of the panel containing this presentation. Click here for videos of the entire NELIC conference. HT @LSNTAP.]
Daniel Martin Katz, of the University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Complex Systems and Computational Legal Studies, has posted Quantitative Legal Prediction, slides from his presentation at NELIC 2011: The New and Emerging Legal Infrastructures Conference, held 15 April 2011 at Boalt Hall, Berkeley, California, USA.
The presentation… [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 8:19 pm
Calls for workshop papers, tutorials, and demonstrations have been issued for CIKM 2010: The 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, to be held 26-30 October 2010, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The submission deadlines are:
24 June 2010: Demos;
30 June 2010: Workshop papers;
15 July 2010: Tutorials.
Proposals are invited in the following areas:
Databases;
Information retrieval;
Knowledge management.
Click here for a detailed list of topics.
For more information, please see… [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 12:53 pm
Professor J. Christopher Rideout of the Seattle University School of Law, has published Voice, Self, and Persona in Legal Writing, 15 Legal Writing: Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 67-107 (2009) (Issue No. 1). Here is a summary:
In my view, sorting out the complexity of voice—and discussing voice in legal prose—requires a rethinking of who the writer is in legal discourse and, importantly, how that writer is represented in legal prose. It becomes a question not of self expression, but of… [read post]