Updated as of June 2011: 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 that are known to welcome papers on legal information systems.

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.

First Seminar on eJustice: Toward a Transparent System of Justice

The First Seminar on eJustice: Toward a Transparent System of Justice, sponsored by the Documentation Sciences Foundation (CD), will be held September 24, 2009, jointly in two locations, linked by videoconferencing: the Centre for Advanced Tecnologies of Extremadura (CETA) in Trujillo, Spain, and the Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial del la Federación in México D.F., Mexico. The seminar will be Webcast. The program is available here, and registration is available here. The panels will discuss the following topics:

• “Judges and litigants in the technology orbit”;
• “Development and management of the technologies: e-justice challenges”; and
• “Democratic habits and information useful socially: construction of citizenship?”

For more information, please see the seminar Website.

Call for Papers: Cyberspace 2009 Conference, Cyberlaw Stream

A call for papers has been issued for the 7th International Conference, Cyberspace 2009, to be held November 20-21, 2009, in Brno, Czech Republic. Deadline for submitting abstracts is July 31, 2009. Respecting legal informatics, proposals are invited on the following topics in e-government or e-justice:

• electronic filing;
• electronic public submissions;
• videoconferences;
• on-line dispute settlement;
• re-use of public sector information;
• on-line public procurement;
• legal information systems;
• on-line access to law and case-law;
• data mining systems for lawyers;
• electronic storage of documents
• on-line legal counseling; or
• e-taxation.

Accepted papers are to be published in the peer-reviewed journals: The Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology (MUJLT) or Cyberpsychology.

For more information, please see the call for papers.