Modelling Legal Cases and Legal Rules at JURIX 2010

A Workshop on Modelling Legal Cases and Legal Rules at JURIX 2010,
Liverpool, United Kingdom, December 15 2010
As part of the JURIX 2010 conference in Liverpool UK, we will hold a
Workshop on Modelling Legal Cases and Legal Rules.  This workshop is a
follow on from successful workshops at JURIX 2007 and ICAIL 2009.
Links:
JURIX:  http://conference.jurix.nl/2010/
Workshop:
http://wyner.info/LanguageLogicLawSoftware/index.php/2010/10/08/call-for-papers-jurix-2010-workshop-on-modelling-legal-cases-and-legal-rules/
Contact person:  Adam Wyner, adam@wyner.info
Legal cases and legal rules in common law contexts have been modelled
in a variety of ways over the course of research in AI and Law to
support different styles of reasoning for a variety of problem-solving
contexts, such as decision-making, information retrieval, teaching,
etc.  Particular legal topic areas and cases have received wide
coverage in the AI and Law literature including wild animals (e.g.
Pierson v. Post, Young v. Hitchens, and Keeble v. Hickeringill),
intellectual property (e.g. Mason v. Jack Daniel Distillery), and
evidence (e.g. the Rijkbloem case).  As well, some legal rules have
been widely discussed, such as legal argument schemes (e.g. Expert
Testimony) or rules of evidence (see Walton 2002).  However, other
areas have been less well covered.  For example, there appears to be
less research on modelling legal cases in civil law contexts;
investigation of taxonomies and ontologies of legal rules would
support abstraction and formalisation (see Sherwin 2009); additional
legal rules could be brought under the scope of investigation, such as
those bearing on criminal assault or causes of action.
The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum in which researchers
can present their research on modelling legal cases and legal rules.
Papers are solicited that model a particular legal case or a small set
of legal rules.  Authors are free to choose the case or set of legal
rules and analyse them according to the authors' preferred model of
representation; any theoretical discussion should be grounded in or
exemplified by the case or rules at hand.  Papers should make clear
what are the particular distinctive features of their approach and why
these features are useful in modelling the chosen case or rules.  The
workshop is an opportunity for authors to demonstrate the benefits of
their approach and for group discussions to identify useful
overlapping features as well as aspects to be further explored and
developed.
Format of papers and submission guidelines:
Full papers should not be more than 10 pages long and should be
submitted in PDF format.  It is suggested that the conference style
files are used for formatting (see IOS Press site).
All papers should provide:
A summary of the case or legal rules.
An overview of the representation technique, or reference to a full
description of it.
The representation itself.
Discussion of any significant features.
Short position papers are also welcome from those interested in the
topic but who do not wish to present a fully represented case or
elaborate discussion of a set of legal rules; the short position
papers can outline ideas, sketch directions of research, summarise or
reflect on previously published work that has addressed the topic.  A
short position paper should be not more than five pages, giving a
clear impression of what would be presented.
All submissions should be emailed as a PDF attachment to the workshop
organiser, Adam Wyner, at: adam@wyner.info.
Programme Committee (Preliminary)
Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
Floris Bex, University of Dundee, UK
Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer, FOKUS, Germany
Robert Richards, Seattle, Washington, USA
Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy
Douglas Walton, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Organisation
Organiser of this workshop is Adam Wyner, University of Liverpool, UK.
You can contact the workshop organiser by sending an email to
adam@wyner.info
Dates
Paper submission:  Friday, November 5, 2010
Accepted Notification:  Friday, November 12, 2010
Workshop Registration:  Friday, November 19, 2010
December 15, 2010 Jurix Workshops/Tutorials
December 16-17, 2010 Jurix 2010 Main Conference