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16 Mar 2013, 6:11 pm
Dr. Margaret Hagan of Stanford Law School has launched Open Law Lab, “an initiative to design law – to make it more accessible, more usable, and more engaging.”
Dr. Hagan says that the Lab currently is a nonprofit collaborative project among law students.
The Lab’s work currently addresses:
Visualization of legal information
Improvements in dispute resolution
Legal educational technology with an emphasis on gamification
Court technology, under the rubric of Usable court… [read post]
21 Apr 2013, 5:22 pm
Professor Katrin Nyman-Metcalf and Ermo Täks, both of Tallinn University of Technology, have published Simplifying the law—can ICT help us? forthcoming in International Journal of Law and Information Technology.
Here is the abstract:
The article analyses how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can assist in simplifying law, by visualizing it and structuring it. It describes current research as well as activities by the European Union to make law more accessible by using ICT.… [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 1:06 am
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 16 May 2011 — has been issued for AICOL 2011: The Third Workshop on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Law , to be held 16 August 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The workshop is to be held in conjunction with IVR 2011: XXV. World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Papers for AICOL 2011 are invited on the following topics: Law and Science Law and Cognitive Science Law and Complexity Theory Complex Systems Legal Theory… [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 12:57 pm
Dr. Adam Wyner of the University College London Department of Computer Science has published a series of posts on legal information annotation and extraction, using GATE: The General Architecture for Text Engineering, on his blog, Language Logic Law Software.
The content of these posts was presented in Dr. Wyner’s tutorial at JURIX 2009, the slides of which are available here.
Posted in Applications, Others' scholarly or sophisticated blogposts, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged:… [read post]
8 Jan 2013, 8:12 pm
The new EU Data Portal has opened with a preliminary set of metadata, which include links to and descriptions of several law-related authority files:
Names of legal roles
Names of legal resource types
Names of corporate bodies
Names of treaties
Names of inter-institutional legal procedures
Each authority file is available in SKOS, XML, XSD, and HTML, and is published by the EU Publications Office in its Metadata Registry.
Filed under: Authority Files, Data sets Tagged: EU, EU legal information… [read post]
24 Mar 2013, 9:50 am
Dr. James Maclean of the University of Southampton Law School has published a new book entitled Rethinking Law as Process: Creativity, Novelty, Change, (Routledge, 2013).
Here is the abstract:
Rethinking Law as Process draws on insights from ‘process philosophy’ in order to rethink the nature of legal decision-making. While there have been significant developments in the application of ‘process’ thought across a number of disciplines, little notice has been taken of… [read post]
20 Jan 2013, 3:42 am
The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated.
The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, legal communication, legal/forensic linguistics, or egovernment (as applied to legal information), or that are known to welcome papers on those topics. The calendar also lists legal hackathons and other legal hacking events.
Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.
If you know of events or other information that should be on… [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 2:02 am
The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated.
The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, legal communication, legal/forensic linguistics, or egovernment (as applied to legal information), or that are known to welcome papers on those topics. The calendar also lists legal hackathons and other legal hacking events.
Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.
If you know of events or other information that should be on… [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 11:28 am
Professor Dr. Trevor Bench-Capon of the University of Liverpool Department of Computer Science, and Professor Dr. Henry Prakken of the University of Groningen Faculty of Law have published Using Argument Schemes for Hypothetical Reasoning in Law, forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law. Here is the abstract:
This paper studies the use of hypothetical and value-based reasoning in US Supreme-Court cases concerning the United States Fourth Amendment. Drawing upon formal AI & Law models of legal… [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 3:09 pm
Videos are now available for all of the workshop panels and the Law.gov panel from Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency (POGW), a workshop held 21-22 January 2010 at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP).
Click here for a summary of the legal-information-related discussion at the workshop.
Posted in Applications, Articles and papers, Conference papers, Conference proceedings, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged: AustLII,… [read post]
5 May 2013, 1:56 pm
The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated.
The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, legal communication, legal/forensic linguistics, or egovernment (as applied to legal information), or that are known to welcome papers on those topics. The calendar also lists legal hackathons and other legal hacking events.
Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.
If you know of events or other information that should be on… [read post]
11 Apr 2013, 8:43 pm
Grant Vergottini of Xcential Group has posted Legal Reference Resolvers, at Legix.info.
The post addresses redirection, making references canonical, a repository service, and resolver routing.
For more details, please see the complete post.
HT @grantcv1
Filed under: Applications, Others' scholarly or sophisticated blogposts Tagged: Grant Vergottini, Legal citations, Legal descriptive metadata, Legal identifier resolvers, Legal identifiers, Legal metadata, Legal reference resolvers, Legal references,… [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 6:05 pm
Professor Edward L. Rubin of Vanderbilt University Law School has edited Legal Education in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in May 2012).
Here is the table of contents:
Part I. Creating Digital Teaching Materials:
1. The digital path of the law. Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover
2. Open source and the reinvention of legal education. Matthew T. Bodie
3. Copyright and innovation in legal course materials. R. Anthony Reese
Part II. Teaching with Digital Course… [read post]
8 Sep 2012, 3:38 am
Christine Kirchberger, LL.M., M.S.L.I.T. and Pam Storr, LL.M., both of the Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute (IRI), have posted Law as an App: Technology in Legal Education, at VoxPopuLII.
The post begins:
Following up on a previously published article on LaaS – Law as a Service, this post discusses different ways that apps can be included into the law degree curriculum.
The sections of the post have the titles:
“Changing Legal Education Through the Use of… [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 10:28 pm
Ed Walters, Esq., of FastCase, has posted Tear Down This (Pay)Wall: The End of Private Copyright in Public Statutes, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
In this post, Mr. Walters describes the extent to which U.S. state governments and for-profit legal publishers assert copyright in U.S. state statutes, and the problems this poses for due process of law, as well as for competition and innovation in the legal publishing industry. Mr.… [read post]
18 May 2010, 11:20 am
My post entitled Context and Legal Informatics Research has been published on Slaw, the Canadian legal blog. Here is the introduction:
The relationship of legal information to context is a key dimension of recent developments in legal informatics scholarship and innovation. These developments range from investigations in law and psychology to political and moral theory, from explorations in artificial intelligence and law to legal information theory, and from research on the legal Semantic Web to… [read post]
5 Dec 2012, 4:53 pm
Professor Dr. John Bell of the University of Cambridge has published The Future of Legal Research, Legal Information Management, 12(4), 314-317 (2012).
Here is the abstract:
This article is based on a presentation given by John Bell at the annual conference of The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) held in Bristol in September 2012. His talk reflects the immediate challenges facing law schools, academic lawyers and the legal publishing industry in the light of the recent Finch Report and the subsequent… [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 9:42 am
A call for papers, with submission deadline of 15 January 2010, has been issued for NorMAS 2010: The 5th International Workshop on Normative Multi-Agent Systems, to be held 29-30 March 2010, at De Montfort University, in Leicester, England, UK. Papers are invited on the following topics:
Norm representation:
Formal languages for the representation of norms
Legal reasoning
Norm-aware cognitive architectures
Norm dynamics:
Formal models of the evolution of normative systems
Norm creation and… [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 9:22 pm
Luca Arnaudo of the Italian Competition Authority and LUISS Guido Carli, has posted Cognitive Law: An Introduction on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
“Over the past decades cognitive neuroscience has achieved major results in better understanding the neural basis of human behavior. Economics has been the first social science interested and able in using some of these results for its own purposes, mainly because of the renewed interest towards psychology fostered by behavioral economics researches.… [read post]