Applications Invited for LAST-JD Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D.) Degree in Law, Science & Technology

A call for applications has been issued for the LAST-JD Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D.) Degree in Law, Science & Technology, for 2013-2014.

The application deadline is 1 February 2013.

According to the program description:

The Joint International Doctoral Degree in “Law, Science and Technology” is an interdisciplinary integrated doctorate, designed to address new challenges in legal, socio-ethical and technical domains arising from the information society and newly emerging technologies.

The program includes a legal informatics track.

The complete announcement appears below.

HT Professor Dr. Monica Palmirani

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LAST-JD call for applications: deadline February 1, 2013
http://www.last-jd.eu/
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Want to be part of the excellent ERASMUS MUNDUS DOCTORAL Program?
Want to earn a joint Ph.D. title awarded by three European universities?
Want to join the new interdisciplinary program in Law, Science and Technology?
Want to acquire cutting-edge skills with which to compete on a surer footing in the information society?

Don’t miss the DEADLINE for APPLYING for the JOINT INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL DEGREE IN LAW, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
Find the application form online at http://www.last-jd.eu/?page_id=65

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LAST-JD Ph.D. Program
JOINT INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL DEGREE IN LAW, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Online at http://www.last-jd.eu/
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The Joint International Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology is an interdisciplinary integrated program designed to address the new legal, socio-ethical, and technical challenges posed by the information society and the newly emerging technologies.

The program covers three different research fields with its curricula:
* Bioethics and Biolaw, which looks at the legal and ethical issues arising in connection with advances in biology and medicine;
* ICT Law, addressing the legal risks and opportunities in ICT; and
* Legal Informatics, an area of informatics that takes law as its subject matter, developing techniques with which to manage the legal domain.

This program promotes European excellence, innovation, and competitiveness in such critical legal and ethical fields as the regulation of privacy, genomics and biobanks, e-government, e-health and e-commerce, the right of free speech on the Internet and intellectual property rights (IPR) with respect to the new technologies. Moreover, the program furthers the design of new software to support the legal profession, including systems based on the explicit representation of laws and regulations in a computable form, as well as systems for checking compliance with international, European, and national legal frameworks and systems in AI & Law.
Details online at http://www.last-jd.eu/?page_id=46

Full Partners
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University of Bologna, CIRSFID (coordinator) – Italy
University of Turin – Italy
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (IDT) – Spain
Mykolas Romeris University, e-Business Center – Lithuania
University of Luxembourg – Luxembourg
University of Tilburg (TILT) – Netherlands

Associate Partners
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Hannover Medical School and University of Hannover, CELLS – Germany
University of Barcelona, Bioethics and Law Observatory (OBD) – Spain
University of Piemonte Orientale – Italy
University of Pittsburgh, AI&LAW Lab – USA
University of Renmin, Intellectual Property Academy – China
European Genetics Foundation – Italy
Fraunhofer FOKUS – Germany
ITTIG, Istituto di teoria e tecnica dell’Informazione giuridica – Italy
Instituto de Investigacion en Inteligencia Artificial, IIIA – Spain
Nexa – Italy
NICTA – Australia

Industrial Partners
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AUGEOS – Italy
ASCAMM – Spain
CELI – Italy
IBM – Europe
NEXEN – Italy
NOMOTIKA – Italy
VICOMTECH – Spain
S21sec- Spain
SUNRISE VALLEY – Lithuania
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Ph.D. Position: Multi Agent Systems at Leibniz Center for Law

An announcement respecting a Ph.D. position in multiagent systems has been posted by the Leibniz Center for Law:

A PhD position on agent concepts in public administration at the Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam.

The PhD student will work on the design methodology for multi-agent simulations, and address the interesting theoretical questions we have about agent role descriptions as design components in multi-agent simulation. The PhD student will also give input to a methodology for acquisition of legal knowledge from the text of the law.

Agent roles in general are identied with a set of abilities, and a set of susceptibilities to actions of others, and with goals, plans, and beliefs typical of that role. Law-based agent roles are a natural approach to knowledge acquisition from the sources of law. Law-based agent roles can be characterized by a set of powers and liabilities, duties and rights found in legal rules in thetext of the law. [...]

Job requirements

The candidate is supposed to write a PhD-thesis on the subject outlined below. He or she will be contracted as a PhD-student (AiO) conform the regulations of the University of Amsterdam.

The candidate for this position should have a master’s degree or equivalent. The candidate should be interested in the legal domain & in multi-agent systems. We are looking for someone with programming skills and a background in multi-agent systems, knowledge representation, and/or semantic web technology. [...]

For application instructions or for more information, please see the complete announcement.

Invitation for Applications: EUI Law Department Ph.D. Program

Applications are invited, with submission deadline of 31 January 2010, for the Ph.D. program in the Department of Law of the European University Institute. The Department, whose faculty includes Professor Giovanni Sartor, features expertise in artificial intelligence and law, and legal informatics.

For more information, please see the announcement.

HT Professor Sartor.

Ph.D. Student Position, Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University

[NOTE: Updated on 12 January 2010 to reflect the extended submission deadline of 25 January 2010.]

Applications, with submission deadline of 18 25 January 2010, “are invited for a funded three-year PhD studentship within the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University.” “Studentships are expected to start on 1st March 2010.”

“The Centre for Social Informatics undertakes research across a range of areas including the information society, social computing, eGovernment and eDemocracy, and knowledge management. We are particularly interested in applicants who would like to pursue research into a key information society issue, such as: the digital divide; surveillance; or national, regional or global information and digital media policies.”

“Applicants should hold a First Class or Upper Second Class Honours degree or a Masters degree in a discipline relevant to the area of study. “

“Overseas students are eligible to apply, but will be liable to pay the difference between home/EU and overseas fees.”

For more information, please see the announcement.

HT Dr. Hazel Hall.

Ph.D. Student Position in Policy-Related Argument Reconstruction

Applications are invited for a position for a Ph.D. candidate to work on a research project in policy-related argument reconstruction and formalization, at The Leibniz Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam. The candidate must have “a background in computational linguistics, or artificial intelligence, with an interest in argumentation. Experience with semantic web technology and practical IT skills are an advantage. Candidates should be proficient in English.”

The position is in connection with IMPACT (Improving Access to Text), “an international project, partially funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework programme. [IMPACT] will conduct original research to develop and integrate formal, computational models of policy and arguments about policy, to facilitate deliberations about policy at a conceptual, language-independent level. To support the analysis of policy proposals in an inclusive way which respects the interests of all stakeholders, research on tools for reconstructing arguments from data resources distributed throughout the Internet will be conducted. The key problem is translation from these sources in natural language to formal argumentation structures, which will be input for automatic reasoning.

“The candidate will be working on the design of an argument reconstruction tool, which uses a library of argumentation schemes to support the manual reconstruction of arguments from natural language texts. Moreover, an extension of existing XML formats for weblogs, such as RSS or Atom, will be developed which would enable future weblogs to mark up the structure of arguments in articles in such a way as to enable the arguments to be automatically aggregated, analysed and visualized, without human intervention. The extension may be based on the argument elements of the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format (LKIF) developed previously by the partners in the ESTRELLA project (IST-2004-027655). The research will result in several publications, including a PhD thesis.”

For more information, please see the position announcement.

HT Dr. Radboud Winkels.