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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]
14 Sep 2012, 12:29 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.
Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.
If you know of events or other information that should be on the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d… [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 law,… [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]
7 Jan 2010, 1:30 pm
AALS 2010: The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, is being held 6-10 January 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The conference theme is “Transformative Law.” Many of the programs concern legal technology or legal communication.
The conference Website is available here.
The conference program is available here.
The conference events are being tweeted on Twitter at #aals and #aals2010.
Posted in Conference Announcements Tagged: AALS, AALS 2010, Academic law… [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]
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]
4 May 2013, 8:56 am
Dr. David A. Lagnado of University College London, and Professor Dr. Norman Fenton and Professor Dr. Martin Neil, both of Queen Mary University of London, have published Legal idioms: A framework for evidential reasoning, Argument & Computation 4(1), 46-63 (2013).
Here is the abstract:
How do people make legal judgments based on complex bodies of interrelated evidence? This paper outlines a novel framework for evidential reasoning using causal idioms. These idioms are based on the qualitative… [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 6:38 pm
Several examples of how the URN:LEX legal identifier standard can be applied to US legal documents, have been posted on LexCraft, the wiki for sharing best practices in legal information systems development, hosted by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
URN:LEX is one of the legal metadata standards proposed to be used in the Law.gov legal open government data project.
The URN:LEX examples available so far on LexCraft cover:
U.S. federal statutes, regulations, and case law;
U.S.… [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 10:21 am
Blawg Review #239 at this blog about Human Rights in Ireland is sure to be as passionate as it is entertaining, and will include surprise performances by superstars born in the USA. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 5:36 pm
A call for papers, with submission deadline of 1 September 2011, has been issued for a special issue of Journal of Logic and Computation, on the topic: Deontic Logic and Normative Systems.
HT Professor Leon van der Torre.
Filed under: Applications, Calls for papers, Technology developments Tagged: Calls for papers, Deontic Logic and Normative Systems, Journal of Logic and Computation, Legal deontic logic, Legal deontic reasoning, Legal logic, Legal reasoning, Leon van der Torre, Modeling legal… [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 6:02 pm
Associate Dean Bernard J. Hibbitts of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and the Publisher and Editor in Chief of JURIST, has published The Technology of Law, 102 Law Library Journal 101 (2010) (Issue No. 1). This article was “adapted from a plenary address given at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries, May 26, 2009, Halifax, Nova Scotia.” Here is the abstract:
Professor Hibbitts argues that contemporary fascination with the law of technology has led us… [read post]
17 Jun 2012, 11:42 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.
Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.
If you know of events or other information that should be on the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d… [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 6:08 pm
Approaches to Legal Ontologies: Theories, Domains, Methodologies (Springer 2011), a collection of scholarly articles on legal ontologies, has been published. The volume is edited by Professor Dr. Giovanni Sartor of Università di Bologna CIRSFID, Professor Dr. Pompeu Casanovas of the Institute of Law & Technology (IDT) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Maria Angela Biasiotti of ITTIG/CNR, and Meritxell Fernández-Barrera of the European University Institute Department of Law.… [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 7:51 am
With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. [read post]
21 Nov 2012, 10:44 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.
Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.
If you know of events or other information that should be on the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d… [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]
7 May 2012, 4:03 pm
Eric Mill of Sunlight Labs has posted two new sets of software to GitHub:
US Code Citation Extraction library in JavaScript
Minimal Node.js API over US Code Citation Extraction library in JavaScript
According to Eric, posting this code constitutes “the tiny, humble foundation of a public project to extract legal citations from blocks of text large and small.”
For more information, contact Eric Mill.
HT @konklone.
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10 May 2012, 6:53 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.
Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.
If you know of events or other information that should be on the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d… [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 10:13 am
Dr. Susan van den Braak has published her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled Sensemaking Software for Crime Analysis (2010).
Dr. van den Braak will defend this dissertation on 15 March 2010 at Senaatszaal van het Academiegebouw, Universiteit Utrecht, Domplein 29, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Here is the abstract:
Criminal investigation is a difficult and laborious process that is prone to error as teams of investigators may be subject to tunnel vision, groupthink, and confirmation bias. As a result,… [read post]