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27 Jul 2012, 7:53 pm
SubTech 2012: International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice, is being held 26-28 July 2012 at New York Law School, in New York, New York, USA.
Click here for the conference Website.
The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #subtech2012.
Click here for a livestream of tweets from the conference (HT @reneeknake).
The complete conference program does not appear to be available.
Filed under: Applications, Conference Announcements, Conference resources Tagged:… [read post]
21 May 2010, 7:25 pm
Enrico Francesconi, Simonetta Montemagni, Wim Peters, and Daniela Tiscornia (editors) have published Semantic Processing of Legal Texts: Where the Language of Law Meets the Law of Language (2010). Click here for a description of the print version of the book.
According to Dr. Montemagni, the book “includes invited contributions of leading researchers and groups eminently active in the field together with the revised and expanded versions of selected papers presented at” SPLeT 2008: Workshop on… [read post]
22 May 2010, 5:50 pm
Professor Dr. Manfred Stede and Florian Kuhn, both of Universität Potsdam Department Linguistik, have published Identifying the Content Zones of German Court Decisions, in Business Information Systems Workshops: BIS 2009 International Workshops, Poznan, Poland, April 27-29, 2009, Revised Papers (2009).
The paper was originally presented at LIT 2009: The 2nd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology, held 28 April 2009 in Poznan, Poland.
Here is the abstract of the paper:
A… [read post]
2 May 2012, 8:42 am
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 7 September 2012 — has been issued for Argumentation 2012: International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law, to be held 26 October 2012, at the Masaryk University Faculty of Law, in Brno, Czech Republic.
According to the conference announcement:
The conference consists of four workshops/streams, each specialized in a specific and unique method of studying legal argumentation:
Formal Methods in Legal Reasoning
Law and… [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 2:19 pm
I’ve recently updated the list of legal metadata resources and the list of legal knowledge representation resources at Legal Information Systems and Legal Informatics Resources.
The list of legal metadata resources contains mostly schemas and standards for legal descriptive or structural metadata.
The list of legal knowledge representation resources lists resources including legal ontologies, Linked Data resources, subject headings lists, classification systems, and authority files.
The lists are… [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 8:00 pm
John Mayer of CALI: The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, has posted How Law Schools Could Save Students $150 Million (updated), on CALI Spotlight Blog.
In this post Mr. Mayer proposes a cooperative project to create a set of 100 free legal casebooks for use by law students. He proposes that each U.S. law school “nominate just one faculty at that law school to write a casebook and donate that book, in electronic format, to the commons under a Creative Commons license.”
Mr. Mayer… [read post]
8 Jan 2010, 2:22 pm
A call for papers, with submissions deadline of 21 February 2010, has been issued for The 1st Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web, to be held April 26 or 27, 2010, in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. The workshop is being held in conjunction with WWW 2010: The 19th International World Wide Web Conference.
Papers are invited on the following topics:
models for the integration of linguistic information with ontologies
architectures and infrastructure for a truly multilingual Semantic Web
models… [read post]
14 Jul 2012, 12:15 pm
Several legal informatics or legal communication papers or presentations have been given at ILEC 5: The 2012 International Legal Ethics Conference, held 12-14 Juley 2012 in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #ilec2012.
Click here for the conference program. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 9:46 pm
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 15 February 2011 — has been issued for LVI 2011: Law via the Internet Conference, to be held 8-10 June 2011, at the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China.
The conference will be hosted by the Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII).
LVI is the conference of the Free Access to Law Movement and the legal information institutes.
For LVI 2011, papers are invited on the following topics:
Challenges and barriers in free access to law in… [read post]
9 Jul 2012, 8:51 pm
ReInvent Law Dubai 2012: Unconference on Law, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship will be held 10 December 2012 at Dubai Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE, according to an announcement at Computational Legal Studies.
The event’s organizers will be Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake, both of the Michigan State University College of Law and its new ReInvent Law Laboratory.
According to the event brochure:
ReInvent Law Dubai is an (un)conference focusing on… [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 5:40 pm
Giovanni Sileno, M. Sc., Dr. Alexander Boer, and Professor Dr. Tom Van Engers, all of the Leibniz Center for Law at the University of Amsterdam, presented a paper entitled The Institutional Stance in Agent-based Simulations, at ICAART 2013: International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, held 15-18 February in Barcelona.
Here is the abstract:
This paper presents a multi-agent framework intended to animate scenarios of compliance and non-compliance in a normative system. With the… [read post]
18 May 2010, 8:18 pm
Enrico Francesconi, Simonetta Montemagni, Wim Peters, and Daniela Tiscornia (editors) have published Semantic Processing of Legal Texts: Where the Language of Law Meets the Law of Language (2010), the proceedings of SPLeT 2008: Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts, held 27 May 2008 in Marrakech, Morocco, in conjunction with LREC 2008: The 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference.
Here are the contents of the volume:
Giulia Venturi, Legal Language and Legal Knowledge Management… [read post]
25 Apr 2010, 9:02 pm
Proceedings are now available — click here for free PDF and click here for print available for sale — for Modelling Legal Cases: Workshop Co-located with the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (Katie Atkinson ed., 2009) (IDT Series no. 5), published by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institute for Law & Technology.
Here is the table of contents:
Floris Bex, Trevor Bench-Capon, & Katie Atkinson, Evidential Reasoning About Motives: A Case Study;
Adam Wyner, An OWL… [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 3:56 pm
A call for papers — with abstract submission deadline of 29 August 2010 and full paper submission deadline of 5 September 2010 — has been issued for JURIX 2010: The 23rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, to be held 16-17 December 2010 at the University of Liverpool Department of Computer Science in Liverpool, England, UK.
The submission deadline for tutorials, workshops and demonstration proposals is 19 September 2010.
Papers and proposals are invited on the… [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 10:30 am
Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Liverpool Department of Computer Science has published Problems and Prospects in the Automatic Semantic Analysis of Legal Texts, in LREC 2012 Conference Proceedings: Semantic Processing of Legal Texts (SPLeT-2012) Workshop, pp. 39-41.
Here is the abstract:
Legislation and regulations are expressed in natural language. Machine-readable forms of the texts may be represented as linked documents, semantically tagged text, or translation to a logic. The paper considers… [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 2:56 pm
Joshua Warren and Professor Deanna Kuhn, both of Columbia University Teachers College, and Dr. Michael Weinstock of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, have published How Do Jurors Argue with One Another?, 5 Judgment and Decision Making 64 (2010) (Issue no. 1). Here is the abstract:
We asked jurors awaiting trial assignment to listen to a recorded synopsis of an authentic criminal trial and to make a choice among 4 verdict possibilities. Each participant juror then deliberated with another juror… [read post]
14 May 2010, 10:58 am
Professor Guido Boella of Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Informatica , Dr. Guido Governatori of the NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory, and colleagues, presented A Formal Study on Legal Compliance and Interpretation, at NMR 2010: The 13th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, held 14-16 May 2010, at Sutton Place, Toronto, Canada.
Here is the abstract of the paper:
This paper proposes a logical framework to capture the norm change power and the limitations of the… [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 11:23 am
Mamari Stephens, MA, LLB, of Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law, has posted Making a Legal Dictionary for an Indigenous Language: The Legal Maori Dictionary, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
In this post, Ms. Stephens discusses the work of Te Kaupapa Reo-a-Ture – The Legal M?ori Project, to develop The Legal M?ori Corpus, The Legal M?ori Lexicon, and The Legal M?ori Dictionary.
In her post Ms. Stephens… [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]
28 Jul 2012, 10:43 am
Here are resources related to SubTech 2012: International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice, being held 26-28 July 2012 at New York Law School, in New York, New York, USA.
Click here for the conference Website.
Click here for the conference program.
The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #subtech2012.
Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference — in .csv format.
Click here for a livestream of tweets from the conference (HT @reneeknake).
Here are… [read post]