Updated as of May 2013: Legal Informatics Conference Calendar

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 the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d be grateful if you would please share that information in the comments to this post.

Proposals invited for lawTechCamp 2013

Proposals for sessions are invited for lawTechCamp 2013, “a BarCamp-style community UnConference for new media and technology enthusiasts and legal professionals,” to be held 8 June 2013 in Toronto, Canada.

lawTechCamp 2013 is being organized by Monica Goyal of MyLegalBriefcase, Mitch Kowalski, and Sapna Mahboobani of Sapna Law Professional Corporation.

Here are details on the session proposals:

LawTechCamp is all about you, the participants. We want the participants, to dictate what sessions are covered at lawTechCamp, and to present them. The only thing to remember is that topics should bridge technology and law in some way. This could mean technology that could help in the practice of law. Or legal issues that affect the development of technology.

Last year, we had a sessions on knowledge management, social media and the law, IP issues, and cloud computing.

If we receive more suggestions then rooms available for the event, we will put the suggestions to a vote. [...]

For more details, please see the event Website.

Click here for information on previous lawTechCamp events.

Proposals invited for talks at ReInventLaw London 2013

Proposals are now invited for talks at the ReInventLaw London 2013 Conference, to be held 14 June 2013, in London, England.

The proposal submission deadline is 5 April 2013.

The conference is organized by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake of the ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law.

Talks will be chosen by a crowdsourced voting process.

Here are the proposal guidelines:

Talks must relate to some aspect of law + technology + innovation + entrepreneurship.

This is about big ideas—no sales pitches or product pushing.

Submit a talk pitch of 300 words or a link to a 30 second YouTube video by midnight April 5, 2013.

Voting opens after submission window is complete at http://www.ReInventLawLondon.com

One person, one vote—but feel free to encourage colleagues, friends, family and more to vote for your pitch!

Winners will have up to 10 minutes to speak, and will then respond to dynamic, real-time, audience-driven Q&A. [...]

For more details, please see the conference Website.

HT @reneeknake

Updated as of March 2013: Legal Informatics Conference Calendar

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 the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d be grateful if you would please share that information in the comments to this post.

Call for Papers: LVI 2013: Law via the Internet Conference

The call for papers and presentation proposals has been issued for LVI 2013: Law via the Internet Conference, to be held 26-27 September 2013 on the Channel Island of Jersey.

The conference Website does not seem to state the deadline for submitting papers or proposals. If you know the submission deadline, please feel free to tell us in the comments to this post.

[UPDATE 11 February 2013: The conference organizers now say the submission deadline is 31 March 2013.]

Papers are invited on the topics covered by any of the seven tracks in which the conference program is divided:

• E-Learning: distance, blended, open, mobile, gaming, MOOCing and more?
• Online legal information – starting from scratch
• Legal knowledge in the age of the semantic web
• Communicating our work: journals, blogs and other ways of publishing about open access
• Privacy v open government in legal publishing
• Emerging patterns of information access and usage
• Technological development and free access to law

The conference Twitter account is @JerseyLVI2013 and the conference hashtag is #lvi2013

For details about the tracks, please see the track Websites.

For more details about the conference, please see the conference Website.

Updated as of January 2013: Legal Informatics Conference Calendar

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 the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d be grateful if you would please share that information in the comments to this post.

Updated as of November 2012: Legal Informatics Conference Calendar

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 be grateful if you would please share that information in the comments to this post.

Call for Proposals: ReInventLaw Dubai 2012: An ‘Un’conference on Law, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

A call for presentation proposals — with submission deadline of 15 October 2012 — has been issued for ReInventLaw Dubai 2012: “an ‘un’conference devoted to law, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship” — to be held 10 December 2012 at Media City in Dubai.

The organizers particularly welcome presentations about innovations in legal services or legal education. Presentations can take the form of 6 Minute Ignite Style Presentations or 12 Minute “TED Style” Presentations.

Registration is free.

The event Website describes the event as follows:

ReInvent Law Dubai is an “un”conference devoted to law, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Anyone interested in the future of law or technology or entrepreneurship will want to participate. Come hear about the innovative ideas generated by the highly-engaging atmosphere of the event!

The event is being sponsored by The ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law, and is modeled on the LawTechCamp London 2012 event held last summer.

For more information, please see the ReInventLaw Dubai 2012 Website.

HT @computational.

Call for Proposals: Open Legislative Data in Paris: A Conference of the Third Kind with Hacktivists and Academics

A call for proposals — with submission deadline of 28 April 2012 — has been issued for Open Legislative Data in Paris: A Conference of the Third Kind with Hacktivists and Academics, to be held 6-7 July 2012, at Sciences Po, Paris, France.

[To see details about the conference, click here, and then, on the menu bar, cursor over "Conference / Conférence".]

The conference is sponsored by Regards Citoyens, Centre d’études européennes Sciences Po, and Le médialab Sciences Po.

According to the conference announcement, proposals are invited:

on any aspects of parliamentary studies linked to the use of computer science, be it in order to present existing projects, to explore new informatics tool, to discuss their effects, to analyze legislatures through open parliamentary data . . .

Special attention will be given to the five following areas:

1. Law tracking. How MPs change draft bill in assemblies? Is there a way of collecting and presenting systematic data about the amendments?
2. Roll call analysis. How MPs vote in assemblies? How can their votes be presented through dynamic informatics visualization? Public access to their votes being almost always partial, what is the value of focusing only on on-line accessible votes? Also, what is the added-value of software developments for the spatial theory of voting in assemblies?
3. Discourse analysis. How MPs talk in assemblies? Studies of political discourse through lexicometry computer programs have developed strong results to that question. What is therefore the impact of a greater online access to parliamentary public debate?
4. Parliamentary informatics in developing countries. What is the state of open data related to legislatures in developing countries? What is or can be the role of the on-line access to those data for improving democracy? For fighting against corruption?
5. The pros and the cons of opening data for parliaments. Can we assess concrete improvements of parliamentary democracy through the development of on-line access to their activity? On which aspect (corruption, attendance, law quality, parliamentary turnover, electoral participation…)? Conversely, what are the threats associated with increasing transparency in legislatures?

For more information, please see the announcement (on the menu bar, cursor over “Conference / Conférence” to see details).

Updated as of March 2012: Legal Informatics Conference Calendar

The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated.

The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems or legal communication, or that are known to welcome papers on legal information systems or legal communication. Many e-government conferences are listed on the calendar.

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 be grateful if you would please share that information in the comments to this post.