A call for papers — with submission deadline of 10 November 2010 — has been issued for ODR Workshop 2010: The 6th International Workshop on Online Dispute Resolution, to be held 15 December 2010 in Liverpool, England, UK, in conjunction with JURIX 2010. The theme of the workshop is: “Web 2.0, semantic web and theRead… Read more »
A call for papers has been issued for dg.o 2011: The 12th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, to be held 12-15 June 2011, at the University of Maryland, in College Park, Maryland, USA. Here are the deadlines: 10 January 2011: Workshop, tutorial, and panel proposals due 6 February 2011: Papers, posters and demoRead… Read more »
A call for papers — with extended submission deadline of 20 September 2010 — has been issued for JURISIN 2010: The 4th International Workshop on Juris-informatics, to be held 18-19 November 2010, at the Campus Innovation Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. The workshop is collocated with JSAI-isAI 2010: The Second JSAI International Symposia on Artificial Intelligence.Read… Read more »
A call for papers has been issued for ICAIL 2011: The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, to be held 6-10 June 2011 at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The conference is organized by IAAIL: The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law. A mentoring program isRead… Read more »
John Sheridan, Head of e-Services and Strategy at The [UK] National Archives — and a member of our community — has posted Legislation.gov.uk, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In his post, Mr. Sheridan describes the origins and functionality of Legislation.gov.uk, the innovative new official legislativeRead… Read more »
John L. Sheridan of the UK National Archives and his team have released Legislation.gov.uk, which presents UK legislation as Linked Data, and provides free public access — including bulk access via RESTful API — to UK legislation and legislative metadata in a range of formats, including XML. Legislation.gov.uk includes both statutes and statutory instruments. ClickRead… Read more »
Ontología Jurídica Libre: Vocabulario de Derecho = Free Legal Ontology: Vocabulary of Law, has been made available by Javier de la Cueva, Esq., of derecho-internet.org and Medialab-Prado. The ontology is intended especially for use by government entities, for modeling and enabling identification and retrieval of legal documents and services produced or offered by government. ClickRead… Read more »
The application deadline has been extended to 23 July 2010 for the 2010 LEX Summer School, to be held 6-11 September 2010 at the University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, in Ravenna, Italy. The theme of the school is “Managing Legal Resources in the Semantic Web.” Here is a description of the curriculum: The school aimsRead… Read more »
The European e-Justice Portal is now available. The Portal currently provides access to a range of primary, secondary, and tertiary legal information respecting the European Union and its member states. Click here for a video providing an overview of the Portal. Here is a summary of the current content and services of the Portal: PrimaryRead… Read more »
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 25 November 2010 — has been issued for ECEG 2011: The 11th European Conference on e-Government, to be held 16-17 June 2011 in Ljubljani, Slovenia. Here are the legal-informatics topics, from the topics about which papers are invited: Challenges to e-Government: Interoperability; Language issues; Identity ManagementRead… Read more »