Category Archives: Calls for participation

Legal Informatics Conference Calendar: Updated as of January 2015

Posted on January 8, 2015 by

The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated. The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, legal communication, legal/forensic linguistics, or egovernment (as applied to legal information), or that are known to welcome papers on … Continue reading →

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Call for participation: Legislative Hackathon at Harvard, January 30-February 1, 2015: #Hack4Congress

Posted on December 30, 2014 by

A call for participation has been issued for #Hack4Congress: A “Not-Just-for-Technologists” Event to Fix Congress with the OpenGov Foundation — a legislative hackathon — which is scheduled to be held January 30-February 1, 2015, at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, … Continue reading →

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Calls for papers or participation: Workshops at JURIX 2014: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Posted on October 29, 2014 by

Calls for papers or participation have been issued for four workshops to be held in conjunction with JURIX 2014: International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, to be held 10-12 December 2014 in Krakow: NAIL 2014: International Workshop “Network … Continue reading →

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Hwang: The Legal Innovation Defense Fund

Posted on October 20, 2014 by

Tim Hwang of the Data and Society Institute invites participation in a new project: The Legal Innovation Defense (LID) Fund, described in a new post at Robot Robot and Hwang. Here are excerpts from the post: […] Today, I want … Continue reading →

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Call for participation: Automated summarization of legal documents task, at FIRE 2014

Posted on October 6, 2014 by

A call for participation has been issued for a task concerning automated summarization of legal documents, at FIRE 2014: Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, 5-7 December 2014, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.. Here are excerpts from the call: […] Legal documents … Continue reading →

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Gunst and Lai: LawGives is crowdsourcing the writing of a legal guide to Bitcoin

Posted on October 4, 2014 by

Pieter Gunst and Tony Lai of LawGives announced last week that LawGives is crowdsourcing the writing of a legal guide to Bitcoin: Help us open-source Bitcoin Law. Here is an excerpt from the announcement: […] We’re also huge Bitcoin enthusiasts, … Continue reading →

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Legal Informatics Conference Calendar: Updated as of September 2014

Posted on September 8, 2014 by

The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated. The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, legal communication, legal/forensic linguistics, or egovernment (as applied to legal information), or that are known to welcome papers on … Continue reading →

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