Call for Papers: JURIX 2013: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

A call for papers — with submission deadline of 2 September 2013 — has been posted for JURIX 2013: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, to be held 11-13 December 2013, at the University of Bologna.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
• Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation;
• Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
• Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
• Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
• Support for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods;
• Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks;
• Retrieval of legal information and eDiscovery;
• Legal education;
• Digital-rights management;
• Alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line;
• Regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
• Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain;
• Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures;
• Legal inference and argumentation;
• Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems;
• Management of legal information in the semantic web, including legal open data;
• XML standards for legal documents and rules, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
• Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions;
• Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems;
• Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications;
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems.

For more details, please see the call for papers.

HT Jurix

JURIX 2012: 17-19 December

JURIX 2012: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems is being held 17-19 December 2012, at Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #jurix2012

Click here for archived Twitter tweets (in .csv format) from the conference.

Click here for the conference program.

Click here for the list of workshops and tutorials.

HT @jurixfoundation

7 September: Extended CfP Deadline for JURIX 2012

The call for papers submission deadline for JURIX 2012: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems has been extended to 7 September 2012.

Click here for the call for papers.

The conference will be held 17-19 December 2012 at the University of Amsterdam.

Papers are invited “on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications” concerning the following topics:

• Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
• Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation;
• Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
• Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
• Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
• Support for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods;
• Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks;
• Retrieval of legal information;
• Legal education;
• Digital-rights management;
• Alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line;
• Regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
• Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain;
• Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures;
• Legal inference and argumentation;
• Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems;
• Management of legal information in the semantic web;
• XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
• Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions;
• Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems;
• Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications;
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems.

For more information, please see the call for papers.

HT Dr. Rinke Hoekstra.

Call for Papers: JURIX 2012: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

A call for papers — with submission deadline of 1 September 2012 — has been issued for JURIX 2012: The 25th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, to be held 17-19 December 2012, at the University of Amsterdam, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Papers are invited “on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications” concerning the following topics:

• Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
• Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation;
• Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
• Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
• Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
• Support for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods;
• Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks;
• Retrieval of legal information;
• Legal education;
• Digital-rights management;
• Alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line;
• Regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
• Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain;
• Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures;
• Legal inference and argumentation;
• Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems;
• Management of legal information in the semantic web;
• XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
• Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions;
• Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems;
• Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications;
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems.

For more information, please see the call for papers.

HT Professor Dr. Burkhard Schafer.

Call for Papers: JURIX 2011

A call for papers — with submission deadline of 5 September 2011 — has been issued for JURIX 2011: The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, to be held 14-16 December 2011 at the University of Vienna, in Vienna, Austria.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
• Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation;
• Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
• Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
• Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
• Support for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods;
• Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks;
• Retrieval of legal information;
• Legal education;
• Digital-rights management;
• Alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line;
• Regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
• Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain;
• Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures;
• Legal inference and argumentation;
• Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems;
• Management of legal information in the semantic web;
• XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
• Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions;
• Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems;
• Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications;
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems.

For more information, please see the call for papers.

HT Professor Dr. Henry Prakken.

Herman on The Battle over Digital Rights Management: A Multi-Method Study of the Politics of Copyright Management Technologies

Professor Bill D. Herman of the Hunter College Film and Media Department, has posted his Ph.D. dissertation entitled The Battle over Digital Rights Management: A Multi-Method Study of the Politics of Copyright Management Technologies (2009). Here is the abstract:

Digital rights management (DRM) refers to various technological systems by which copyright holders seek to exert control over the use and circulation of their works. This dissertation explores the policy debate over copyright law as a potential vehicle for regulating DRM technologies. It examines this debate in three separate time periods, between 1989 and 2006, as it took place in Congress, in The New York Times and Washington Post, and online. It answers the question: Which policy actors communicate most regularly in which media about DRM and copyright law, and how has this changed over time?

Methods used include quantitative content analysis of documents from all three media, qualitative historical policy analysis, and web graph analysis tools that quantify and map the hyperlinks between websites. This work builds upon and extends the methodology of using web graphs as a tool for identifying the most central actors within a topical cluster of websites.

Results illustrate the birth and growth of a fairly unified multi-sector strong fair use coalition. Voices of opposition to the regulation of DRM via copyright have moved from profound underrepresentation to approximate parity in congressional access, successfully moved press coverage in a more favorable direction, and dominated the online debate. Policy outcomes reflect this shift; while the strong copyright coalition successfully pushed through two major laws expanding copyright in the 1990’s, by the mid-2000’s, the strong fair use coalition had fought them to a draw, stopping proposed expansions of copyright and winning key congressional allies for a proposal to reduce
DRM regulations.

This dissertation’s results suggest the substantial power of online issue advocacy. In particular, the web benefits policy coalitions that have a disadvantage in financial capital but a comparatively large base of support. Coalitions still need regular interpersonal communication with policymakers, but online coalition building and advocacy appear to be of substantial help, legitimizing and amplifying the message of
under-resourced coalitions.

Call for Papers: ICKM 2010: International Conference on Knowledge Management

A call for papers — with submission deadlines of 1 August 2010 for full papers, and 1 September 2010 for practitioner presentations, research in progress, and posters — has been issued for ICKM 2010: The 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management, to be held 22-23 October 2010, at The Hilton Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

The conference is collocated with ASIST 2010: The American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting.

Papers for ICKM 2010 are invited on the following topics:

• Indigenous Knowledge Management
• Communication, Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing
• Intellectual Capital & KM Measurements
• Knowledge Discovery (AI, Data Mining, Text & Web Mining)
• Knowledge Organization (Meta Data, Taxonomies & Ontology)
• Knowledge Retention, Policies and Practices
• Knowledge Management in Project Management
• Knowledge Management in Healthcare
• Knowledge Management in Public Sector and Not-For-Profit Organizations
• Knowledge Management Strategies and Implementations
• Knowledge Management Training and Certification
• Learning Organization & Organizational Learning
• Web 2.0 and Social Networking Technologies
• Information Architecture, Content & Digital Right Management
• Knowledge Management in Libraries and Information Centers
• Knowledge Loss and Brain Drain in Turbulent Economic Times
• Social and Ethical Issues
• The Challenges of Complexity

For more information, please see the call for papers.

Call for Papers: JURIX 2010

A call for papers — with abstract submission deadline of 29 August 2010 and extended full paper submission deadline of 12 September 2010 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 following topics:

• “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”

For more information, please see the call for papers.

HT Dr. Radboud G. F. Winkels.

[NOTE: This post was last updated on 1 September 2010 to add the extended full paper submission deadline.]

Call for Papers: Protecting Open Source Hardware: Special Issue of JILT & EJLT

A call for papers has been issued for a special issue of JILT: Journal of Information Law & Technology, and EJLT: European Journal of Law & Technology, on the theme: “Protecting Open Source Hardware?” Papers are welcomed on the following topics (Legal informatics topics related to this theme include programming protection into hardware, and modeling hardware license terms):

• “What are the issues which separate software and hardware open source models?
• What elements of the GPL are appropriate or not appropriate for protecting hardware developments from freeloading?
• Is a new ‘Hardware GPL’ model required?
• Is hardware protection possible through the programming which underpins development?
• What problems arise from ‘contractual’ models of protection?
• Is it possible to develop an ‘international’ consensus on protection?
• Can hardware – where it is not subject to patent – ever be protected anyway?”

For more information, please see the call for papers.

Recent Developments in DRM & Rights Expression Languages

Here are some recent developments respecting digital rights management:

• ACM-DRM 2009, the 9th ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management will be held November 9, 2009, in Chicago;
• Nicolas Jondet’s article, co-authored with Professor Jane K. Winn, entitled A “New Deal” for End Users? Lessons from a French Innovation in the Regulation of Interoperability, is forthcoming in the November 2009 issue of William & Mary Law Review;
• Nicolas Jondet gave a paper paper entitled France: The Land of the Linux? The Case of DRM Interoperability and Reverse-engineering, at GikII 2009 (also known as Gikii 4), a conference sponsored by the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, held September 17-18, 2009 at the Institute;
• Professor Min-Jen Tsai & Yuan-Fu Luo, both of the National Chiao Tung University’s Institute of Information Management, have published Service-Oriented Grid Computing System for Digital Rights Management (GC-DRM), in 36 Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal 10708 (2009);
• Dr. Valentina Moscon of the University of Trento Department of Legal Studies, gave a presentation on her dissertation, entitled Copyright Law, Contract Law, Rights Expression Languages and Value-Contered Design Approach, at the Doctoral Workshop on Law & Technology, held June 5, 2009 at the European University Institute in Florence;
• Claudio Prandoni, Marlis Valentini, and Martin Doerr plan to deliver a paper entitled Formalising a Model for Digital Rights Clearance at ECDL2009: The 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, to be held in Corfu, Greece, September 27 to October 2, 2009;
• Dr. Patrícia Akester of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law has made available Technological Accommodation of Conflicts Between Freedom of Expression and DRM: The First Empirical Assessment (2009);
• Hirotsugu Kinoshita, Tetsuya Morizumi, & Kazuhiro Suzuki have published Financial Securitization with Digital Rights Management System in SAINT 2009: Proceedings of the 2009 Ninth Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, at 197 (2009);
• Nicholas Paul Sheppard, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, & Mohammad Jafari have published A Digital Rights Management Model for Healthcare in POLICY 2009: Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks at 106 (2009);
• Dr. Shiguo Lian, of France Telecom R and D (Orange Labs) in Beijing, has published Secure Video Distribution Scheme Based on Partial Encryption, in 19 International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology 227 (2009);
• Professor Roberto García & Professor Rosa Gil of Universitat de Lleida published Copyright Licenses Reasoning an OWL-DL Ontology in Law, Ontologies and the Semantic Web: Channelling the Legal Information Flood 145 (2009);
• Professor Casey O’Donnell of the University of Georgia has published Production Protection to Copy(right) Protection: From the 10NES to DVDs, in 31 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1058 (2009);
• ACM-DRM 2008, the 8th ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management was held in October 2008;
• Here are other citations for recent articles or monographs on DRM, from OCLC WorldCat.