Justice Wide Open Conference: Proceedings Available

Full text of proceedings have been published online for the Justice Wide Open Conference, held 29 February 2012, at City University London, London, England, UK.

Judith Townend of City University London is the editor of the proceedings.

The papers concern “the history and context of the flow of legal knowledge and open justice, as well as court reporting and the media.”

February 23-25: IRIS 2012 Legal Informatics Conference

IRIS 2012: Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion, is being held 23-25 February 2012, at Universität Salzburg, in Salzburg, Austria.

Professor Dr. Erich Schweighofer of Universität Wien Arbeitsgruppe Rechtsinformatik is the General Chair of the conference.

The theme of the conference is “Transformation juristischer Sprachen.”

Click here for the conference program.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #iris2012.

APSA 2011: Legal Information / Communication Papers

Here are the legal information or legal communication papers (as best I can identify them), presented at APSA 2011: The American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, held 1-4 September 2011, at The University of Washington Department of Political Science, in Seattle, Washington, USA (If you know of other APSA 2011 legal information / communication papers, please feel free to identify them in the comments):

• Brent D. Boyea, Jeff Yates, and Damon M. Cann, Judicial Response or Litigant Strategy: Examining the Success of the U.S. Solicitor General;
• Ericka Christensen, James Newman, and Jason McConnell, A Statistical Treatment of Legal Epistemic Communities and the Department of Justice: The Impact upon Judicial Selection and Judicial Decision-Making;
• Audrey Comstock, Law as a Communicative Signal: Legal Signaling, Economic Sanctions, and Human Rights;
• Tyler Curley, Normalizing the Exception: Governmentality, Legal Discourse and Post-9/11 U.S. Security;
• Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, and James Melton, Lessons from the Decoding of National Constitutions: The Comparative Constitutions Project;
• Peter K. Enns and Patrick C. Wohlfarth, Public Opinion and the Median Justice (or The Swing Justice);
• Sean Farhang, Delegation and Democracy: Courts, Administrators, and Legislative Specificity;
• Charles Finocchiaro and David Darmofal, Spatial Proximity and Roll-Call Voting Behavior in the U.S. Senate;
• Matt Grossmann , The Long Great Society: Macro Politics, Governing Networks, and American Policy History;
• Susan Haire and Rorie Spill Solberg, The Development of Legal Doctrine: Citation Patterns in the Us Courts of Appeals;
• Laura J. Hatcher, The Epistemology of Due Process Meets Science: Why the Coast is Hard to See in Court Cases;
• Michael T. Heaney, Panel: Legislative Networks and Lawmaking,
• Stuart Jordan and Lawrence Rothenberg, Learning from Empirical Studies of Agency Rulemaking (Abstract from Midwest Political Science Association 2011 Annual National Conference)
• Jonathan P. Kastellec and Deborah Beim, Strategic Dissents on the U.S. Courts of Appeals: Theory and Evidence;
• Benjamin E. Lauderdale and Tom S. Clark, The Genealogy of Law: Identifying Substantive Connections Among Supreme Court Cases Using Network Community Detection Methods;
• Meghan E. Leonard, Legitimacy and Decision-Making on State High Courts (an apparently similar paper entitled Institutional Legitimacy and Decision-Making on State High Courts: Examining Judicial Review was presented by the author at State Politics and Policy Conference 2011);
• Akitaka Matsuo and Shunta Matsumoto, Partisan and Personal Incentives in Parliamentary Speeches: A Computer Content Analysis;
• Nancy Maveety, Lori Beth Way, and Charles C. Turner, Roberts’ Rules of Writing: An Evaluation of Separate Opinion Behavior on the Roberts Court;
• Banks Miller, An Empirical Analysis of Recusal Motions in State Supreme Courts;
• Peter Frank Nardulli, Buddy Peyton, and Joseph W. Bajjalieh, Measuring Cross-National and Inter-Temporal Differences in Law-Based Orders: 1946-2010;
• Rolfe Peterson and Lena Surzhko-Harned, To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Comparative Analysis of Twitter Adoption in the United States Congress and the European Parliament;
• Salmon A. Shomade, Judicial Decision-Making: The Influence of Case Salience on Trial Court Sentencing;
• Amy Steigerwalt, Pamela C. Corley, and Artemus Ward, The Need for an Answer: Unanimity and Agenda Setting;
• Robert Thomson, Daniel Naurin, and Marta Smolen, Legislative Decision-Making in the European Union Before and After Enlargement: Explaining Network Ties in an International Legislature;
• Joseph Daniel Ura, Program: The Text and the Context: Agenda Setting, Opinion Writing, and Public Opinion;
• Jack Vowles, The Manipulation of Norms and Emotions? Partisan Cues and Campaign Claims in the UK Electoral System Referendum.

Updated as of July 2011: Legal Informatics Conference Calendar

[NOTE: Updated 22 August 2011 to reflect new URLs.]

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.

Legal Informatics / Legal Communication Papers @ ICA 2011

The following legal informatics or legal communication papers were presented at ICA 2011: The Conference of the International Communication Association, held 26-30 May 2011, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (Click here for the full conference program. If you know of other legal communication or legal informatics papers presented at the conference, please feel free to mention them in the comments):

• Sanna Ala-Kortesmaa, U of Tampere; Tuula-Riitta Valikoski, U of Tampere: Professional Communication and Listening Concepts of Finnish and American Legal Professionals
• Stacy Blasiola, U of Wisconsin: Say, “Cheese!” Bloggers and Cameras in Wisconsin’s Courtrooms
• Clarissa C. David, U of the Philippines; Jenna Mae Atun, Ateneo de Manila U: Framing in Legislation: The Case of Population Policy in the Philippines
• Stephanie Dixon, U of Southern California: Discursive Intervention in International Intellectual Property Policymaking: How Developing Countries and Civil Society Employ Text to Challenge and Change the Status Quo
• Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Yale U: Towards a Deliberative Standard: Rethinking Participation in Policymaking
• Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Yale U: Translation in the Media Ownership Debate: The Work of Civil Society Groups and the Federal Communications Commission, 2002-2007
• John Gastil, U of Washington; Katherine Rhodes Knobloch, U of Washington: Evaluating Deliberative Public Events and Projects
• R. G. Lentz, McGill U.: The Discursive Alchemy of Telecommunications Regulation
• Dana Mastro, U of Arizona; Erin Blecha, Washington U – St. Louis; Anita Atwell Seate, U of Arizona: Characterizations of Criminal Athletes: A Systematic Examination of Sports News Depictions of Race and Crime
• Shinil Moon, SUNY – Buffalo; Kitae Kim, SUNY – Buffalo; Thomas H. Feeley, U of Buffalo: Predicting College Students’ Intentions to Illegally Download Music: The Role of Norms
• Anat Peleg, Bar Ilan U; Bryna Bogoch, Bar Ilan U: Removing Justicia’s Blindfold: The Mediatization of Law in Israel
• SunWolf, Santa Clara U.: A Narrative Approach to Jury Deliberations in the Legal Judicial System
• Karen Tracy, U of Colorado: How “Reasonable Hostility” Fares as a Norm of Communicative Conduct in Legislative Hearings About Same-Sex Unions
• Xiao Wang, Rochester Institute of Technology; Steven McClung, Mercer U: Toward a Detailed Understanding of Illegal Digital Downloading Intentions: An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Approach
• Richard W.S. Wu, U of Hong Kong; Grace L. K. Leung, Chinese U – Hong Kong: Lawyers’ Image and Ethics in Hong Kong Television and Films: From Social Elite to Ordinary Professionals?

Those who have registered for the conference may access abstracts and full text of the papers on the conference Website. Others who wish to view abstracts or full text of these papers should contact the authors.

October 22: Duke Open Access Law Journal Conference

A conference entitled Implementing the Durham Statement: Best Practices for Open Access Law Journals will be held 22 October 2010 at the Duke University Law School, in Durham, North Carolina, USA.

The conference is being organized by Senior Associate Dean Richard A. Danner of Duke University Law School.

Here is a description of the conference, from Dean Danner’s announcement:

Sponsored by the Duke Law School J. Michael Goodson Law Library and the Harvard Law Library: A workshop aimed at student law review editors, designed to present and discuss best practices for law journals as increasing numbers move into electronic publishing. The workshop is also open to law librarians, law review advisers, and all others who are interested in open access and legal publishing. It will be webcast and promoted to all ABA-accredited law schools. For more information and to register, please contact Professor Richard Danner at zad@law.duke.edu . Registration is free, but requested for catering.

For more information, please see the conference announcement.

Click here for Dean Danner’s recent paper about the Durham Statement.

Click here for the full text of the Durham Statement.

HT Dean Danner and @jpalfrey.

May 10-11, 2010: Civil Litigation Conference at Duke Law School

A live Webcast is available for the 2010 Civil Litigation Conference, sponsored by the Judicial Conference of the United States, and being held 10-11 May 2010 at Duke University Law School in Durham, North Carolina, USA.

The conference will focus on empirical research on U.S. federal civil litigation, including research on lawyers’ satisfaction with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, judicial decisions (Iqbal and Twombly and cases applying them) respecting pleading rules, ediscovery, the “vanishing trial”, incentives for settlement, and experimentation and proposals respecting civil litigation reform in U.S. states, including research conducted by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver (IAALS).

Click here for the conference program.

Click here for information about the conference from Duke Law.

Click here for an article about the conference from Tony Mauro at National Law Journal.

Call for Participation: Clinical Law Review Writing Workshop: Clinical Writers’ Workshop 2010

[UPDATE: The registration and scholarship application deadline for the workshop is 2 June 2010. The first draft submission deadline is 1 September 2010. The workshop is being called Clinical Writers' Workshop. Click here for the updated call for participation.]

A writing workshop sponsored by The Clinical Law Review will be held 2-3 October 2010 at New York University School of Law, New York, New York, USA.

For more information, please see the updated call for participation.

Video Available for SMiLE 2010: Social Media in Law Enforcement Conference

Video is now available for many programs of SMiLE 2010: Social Media in Law Enforcement Conference, held 7-9 April 2010 in Washington, DC. Many of the conference programs deal with legal information or communication.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference was #SMiLEcon.

Click here for the conference program.

Click here for the conference blog.

HT @lewisshepherd.

Call for Papers: I-KNOW 2010

A call for papers,with submission deadline of 8 March 2010, has been issued for I-KNOW 2010: The 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, to be held 1–3 September 2010, at Messe Congress Graz, Austria.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

“I. Knowledge Management

• Theories for Knowledge Management
• Concepts for Knowledge Management
• Models for Knowledge Management
• Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management
• Evaluations and Use Case Studies of Knowledge Management

II. Knowledge Discovery

• Information Retrieval and Search Visualization
• Knowledge & Information Visualization
• Semantic Enhanced Knowledge Discovery
• Knowledge Discovery in the Future Internet
• Information Quality in the Web
• Knowledge Relationship Discovery and Statistical Relational Learning
• Large Scale Knowledge Discovery
• Text Mining & Semantic Enrichment

III. Knowledge Services

• User context detection services
• User profile modelling and maintenance services
• Context-aware recommendation services
• Collaborative knowledge construction and modelling services
• Collaborative knowledge maturing services
• Knowledge sharing and communication services

..which are based on Knowledge Technologies such as

• Web 2.0 and Future Internet
• Social Network Analysis
• Adaptive, context-aware systems
• Semantic technologies
• Mobile computing approaches
• Web-services, SOA, service orchestration
• Linked-open data
• Trust & privacy approaches

IV. Social Media

• Models of propagation and influence in twitter, blogs and social tagging systems
• models of expertise and trust in twitter, wikis, newsgroups, question and answering systems
• Agent-based models of social media
• Models of emergent social media properties
• Cooperation and collaboration models
• Modeling social media users and their motivations and goals
• Architectural and framework models
• User modeling and behavioural models
• Social Media Engineering

V. Enterprise 2.0 and Social Web: Case Studies and Evaluations

• Enterprise 2.0
• Corporate Web 2.0
• Social Networking (Services) and the Enterprise
• Wikis, (Micro-)Blogs and the Enterprise
• Computer-Mediated Communication and Computer-Supported Collaborative Work with Social Media
• Communities and Social Media
• Knowledge Transfer, Sharing and Diffusion with Social Media
• Knowledge Management in the Future Internet of People, Content and Knowledge
• Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation
• Web 2.0 and Viral Marketing”

For more information, please see the call for papers.