Call for Papers JURIX 2010

The 23rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

University of Liverpool (U.K.), 16th-17th December 2010

http://conference.jurix.nl/2010


For more than 20 years the Jurix Conference has provided an international forum for academics and practitioners in the field of legal informatics for sharing ideas and experiences on the representation of legal content and its representation in computer systems.

The 23rd edition of Jurix will be organised by the University of Liverpool.

We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge (foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications), including but not limited to the following:

- systems supporting lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation
- systems supporting the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, - policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation
- systems supporting the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases
- systems supporting police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations
- systems supporting public administration, in applying regulations and managing information
- systems for the retrieval of legal information
- systems supporting legal education
- systems for digital-rights management
- systems supporting the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods
- systems supporting alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line systems and methods to support regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes
- systems and method to support policies and legal issues for social networks
- theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence in the legal domain
- models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures
- models of legal inference and argumentation
- methods for verifying and validating legal knowledge systems
- methods and techniques for managing legal information in the semantic web
- methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems
- XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts
- methods for modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions

Papers should not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere except as a submission to JURISIN 2010. The double submission policy with JURISIN 2010 is as follows:

Papers being submitted both to JURISIN 2010 and JURIX 2010 must note this on the title page.
A paper to be published and presented at JURIX 2010 must be withdrawn from JURISIN 2010 and vice versa according to the choice by the authors.
If the authors do not follow this double submission policy, the paper by the authors will not be included in the proceedings of JURIX 2010.
Deadline for paper submission is September 5th, 2010. Papers should be submitted through the Jurix Easychair system, using PDF, PostScript 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.

The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press (Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC) in their series “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications” before the Conference.

The Jurix conferences are held under the auspices of the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems (www.jurix.nl).

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.

Important Dates

August 29th, 2010 Deadline for submission of abstracts
September 5th, 2010 Deadline for submission of papers
September 19th, 2010 Deadline for submission of tutorials, workshops and demonstration proposals
October 1st, 2010 Notification of paper acceptance
October 17th, 2010 Camera-ready papers due
December (14th and) 15th, 2010 Jurix Workshops/Tutorials
December 16th-17th, 2010 Jurix 2010 Main Conference
Contacts

You can contact us by sending an email to: jurix2010@jurix.nl.

Program Committee Chair

Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Organisation Committee Chair

Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, U.K.

Program Committee

Radboud Winkels (Chair) Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands
Kevin D. Ashley University of Pittsburgh, USA
Katie Atkinson University of Liverpool, UK
Daniθle Bourcier CNRS CERSA, University of Paris 2, France
Joost Breuker University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pompeu Casanovas Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Jack Conrad Thompson Reuters, USA
Tom van Engers Leibniz Center for Law, The Netherlands
Enrico Francesconi ITTIG-CNR, Florence, Italy
Thomas F. Gordon Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
Guido Governatori NICTA, Australia
Carole D. Hafner Northeastern University, USA
Rinke Hoekstra VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Arno R. Lodder VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Thorne McCarthy Rutgers University, USA
Marie-Francine Moens KU Leuven, Belgium
Laurens Mommers Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
Monica Palmirani University of Bologna, Italy
Henry Prakken Universiteit Groningen & Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Paulo Quaresma Universidade de Evora & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Giovanni Sartor European University Institute & University of Bologna, Italy
Ken Satoh National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Burkhard Schafer University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Uri Schild Bar Ilan University, Israel
Bart Verheij Universiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Fabio Vitali University of Bologna, Italy
Douglas N. Walton University of Windsor, Canada
Adam Wyner University of Leeds, UK
John Zeleznikow Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia