LEX 2011 Summer School: Managing Legal Resources in the Semantic Web

Registration is now open for the LEX 2011 Summer School: Managing Legal Resources in the Semantic Web (formerly the Legislative XML Summer School), to be held 5-10 September 2011, at the University of Bologna’s campus in Ravenna, Italy.

The summer school lasts 6 days and “is organized in two courses:”

• “A Basic Course providing an introduction to XML web technologies and to basic technologies for drafting and managing standard-compliant legislative and legal documents;
• “An Advanced Course providing in-depth analysis of the higher levels of Semantic Web technologies and of their application to the legal domain: modelling of modifications, procedures and legal knowledge.”

The Directors of the Summer School are Professor Dr. Giovanni Sartor, a member of our community, and Professor Dr. Enrico Pattaro. Scientific Co-ordination for the conference is by Professor Dr. Monica Palmirani, a member of our community.

The faculty of the Summer School includes several members of our community:

• Dr. Núria Casellas;
• Professor Dr. Enrico Francesconi;
• Dr. Simonetta Montemagni;
• Professor Dr. Monica Palmirani;
• Professor Dr. Giovanni Sartor;
• Pierluigi Spinosa;
• Daniela Tiscornia, Esq.;
• Dr. Adam Wyner.

The event’s sponsors include:

• Università di Bologna;
• The Leibniz Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam;
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG-CNR);
• The European University Institute;
• Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institute of Law and Technology;
• OASIS.

The site also lists articles and publications that will be discussed during the course.

Further, the site links to valuable resources on:

• the Semantic Web;
• Legal XML;
• standards and projects respecting Legal XML and the legal Semantic Web.

For more information, please see the event Website.

HT Professor Dr. Monica Palmirani.