Proceedings Available for JURIX 2011 Conference

Proceedings have been published for JURIX 2011: The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, held 14-16 December 2011, at the University of Vienna Centre for Legal Informatics.

The proceedings volume is: K. M. Atkinson (Ed.), Legal Knowledge and Information Systems - JURIX 2011: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference (IOS Press, 2011).

Abstracts for most papers appear to be available free of charge, whereas access to full text of papers appears to require a fee.

Winkels et al. on Determining Authority of Dutch Case Law

Professor Dr. Radboud Winkels of the Leibniz Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam, Jelle De Ruyter of the University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law, and Henryk Kroese of the University of Amsterdam – Faculty of Natural Science, Mathematics and Information Science, have published Determining Authority of Dutch Case Law, in K. M. Atkinson (Ed.), Legal Knowledge and Information Systems - JURIX 2011: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference (pp. 103-112) (IOS Press, 2011). Here is the abstract:

In this paper we present the results of two studies to see whether the analysis of the network of citations between cases can be used as an indication of the relevance and authority in the Dutch legal system. Fowler e.a. [here and here] have shown such results for the US common law system, but given the different status of case law in continental tradition it is not clear whether this will hold in the Netherlands. Moreover, we introduce a way to validate the results using selections made by human experts for legal education. We discuss the results and conclude that network analysis of cases is a useful tool for legal research.

Slides Available for Katz and Bommarito: Network Analysis and Law: Introductory Tutorial

Slides have been posted for “Network Analysis and Law: Introductory Tutorial”, taught by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz of Michigan State University College of Law and Michael J. Bommarito II of Computational Legal Studies, on 13 December 2011 in Vienna, Austria, at JURIX 2011: The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems.

Here is the outline of the tutorial:

Network Analysis: An Extended Primer

Advanced Network Science Topics

• Community Detection
• ERGM / P* Models
• Social Epidemiology

Network Analysis and Law

• Legal Elites
• Diffusion and Other Related Processes
• Legal Doctrine and Legal Rules

The Frontier of Network Analysis and Law

• Distance Measures for Dynamic Citation Networks
• Dynamic Community Detection
• The Judicial Collaborative Filter (Judge Aided Info Retrieval)

For more information, please see the slides.

HT @computational.

JURIX 2011 Conference: December 14-16

JURIX 2011: The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, is being held 14-16 December 2011, at the University of Vienna Centre for Legal Informatics.

Click here for the conference program.

Click here for workshops and tutorials associated with the conference.

Katz and Bommarito to Teach Network Analysis and Law Tutorial @ Jurix 2011

A tutorial on “Network Analysis and Law”, taught by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz of Michigan State University College of Law and Michael J. Bommarito II of Computational Legal Studies, will be held 13 December 2011 in Vienna, Austria, at JURIX 2011: The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems.

Here are the goals of the tutorial:

• To introduce a variety of concepts from complex systems and network science
• To outline potential applications of network science in legal studies and positive legal theory
• To highlight possible uses of network metadata to enrich legal informatics sub-fields such as information retrieval
• To examine the application of various network based epidemiological / diffusion models
• To introduce participants to various theoretical and empirical network science software platforms

For more information, please see the announcement.

HT @computational.

Wyner and Peters On Rule Extraction from Regulations

Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Liverpool Department of Computer Science, and Dr. Wim Peters of the University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science, have posted their paper entitled On Rule Extraction from Regulations, to be presented at JURIX 2011: The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, 14-16 December 2011, in Vienna, Austria.

Here is the abstract:

Rules in regulations such as found in the US Federal Code of Regulations can be expressed using conditional and deontic rules. Identifying and extracting such rules from the language of the source material would be useful for automating rulebook management and translating into an executable logic. The paper presents a linguistically-oriented, rule-based approach, which is in contrast to a machine learning approach. It outlines use cases, discusses the source materials, reviews the methodology, then provides initial results and future steps.

The empirical component of the study involves application of the method and model to text from 21 Code of Federal Regulations part 610, section 40 (21 C.F.R. 610.40).

JURIX 2011: Accepted Papers

Accepted papers have been announced for JURIX 2011: The International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, to be held 14-16 December 2011, at the University of Vienna Centre for Legal Informatics, in Vienna, Austria.

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.