Jurix 2007: Call for Papers
June 21st, 2007
Jurix 2007 - The 20th Anniversary International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
First Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops
http://www.jurix2007.org
For 20 years now, JURIX conferences have been successful annual international meetings with scholars and practitioners in the field of Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. This year’s anniversary conference runs from December 12-15, 2007 and is hosted by the oldest university city in the Netherlands: Leiden.
Authors are invited to submit papers on the foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications of legal knowledge and information systems, including but not limited to:
- systems that support lawyers with legal reasoning, document drafting, and negotiation
- systems supporting governance tasks in the life-cycle of legislation, including agenda setting, policy analysis, legislative drafting, implementation by public administration, and monitoring
- systems supporting legal education
- systems for digital rights management
- systems supporting the acquisition and management of legal knowledge
- legal information and retrieval systems
- case studies about applications of legal knowledge systems
- systems for online dispute resolution
- theoretical foundations and models in Artificial Intelligence and Law
- modeling legal norms, concepts, rules, cases, principals, values and procedures (legal ontologies)
- models of legal reasoning, argumentation and evidence
- methods for the verification and validation of legal knowledge systems
- Semantic Web applications in the legal field
- methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems
- document types and schemas for legislation and other legal texts
- legal knowledge systems, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods
The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press (Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC) in their series “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications” before the Conference. The Jurix conferences are held under the auspices of the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.
Papers on other relevant topics are welcome. Deadline for submission of papers is September 9, 2007. Papers should be submitted through the Jurix Conference Management System, using PDF, PostScript or Word format.
Papers should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the style files and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the IOS Press site. If not formatted according to the style file, the maximum word count is 5,000.
Finally, proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited. Please submit a short description of the topic. All proposals should be sent to the Program Chair by email.
Important Dates
September 9, 2007
Deadline for submission of papers
September 21, 2007
Deadline for submission of tutorial, workshop and demonstration proposals
October 7, 2007
Notification of paper acceptance
October 20, 2007
Camera-ready paper due
December 12 and 15, 2007
Jurix Workshops/Tutorial
December 13-14, 2007
Jurix 2007 Main Conference
Contact
You can contact us by sending an email to Arno R. Lodder (program chair) to lodder or to Laurens Mommers (organisation chair) to l.mommers.
Program Committee
Arno R. Lodder, VU University Amsterdam & CEDIRE.org, The Netherlands (chair)
Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
Emilia Bellucci, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
Danieele Bourcier, CNRS CERSA, University of Paris 2, France
Frances M.T. Brazier, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Aspassia Daskalopulu, dpt of comp. & comm. engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece
Tom van Engers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Thomas F. Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
Carole D. Hafner, Northeastern University, USA
Frank van Harmelen, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jaap van den Herik, Leiden University & Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Peter Keyngnaert, AKTOR Knowledge Technology, Belgium
Gloria T. Lau, Thomson FindLaw & Stanford University, USA
Ronald P. Loui, Washington University St. Louis, USA
Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Laurens Mommers, eLaw@Leiden, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Ajit Narayanan, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Kees van Noortwijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Anja Oskamp, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
Marta Poblet, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Henry Prakken, Groningen University & Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Evora, Portugal
Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy
Burkhard Schafer, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Uri Schild, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Bart Verheij, Groningen University, The Netherlands
Kees de Vey Mestdagh, Groningen University, The Netherlands
Wim Voermans, State and administrative law, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Douglas Walton, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
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