FTRI 2011 – Workshop Legal Informatics 2011 – Legal Information & Advanced Applications in Law
Wednesday 14 December 2011, University of Vienna
Organised within JURIX 2011, 14-16 December 2011, University of Vienna
Call for Papers
The Workshop Legal Informatics (FTRI) aims to promote a pioneering dialogue between science and practice on technical questions of law in the knowledge society. At the international level, the conferences ICAIL and JURIX exist for many years as platforms for the presentation of scientific results on information systems and applications in AI & law. This FTRI – which takes place before the JURIX conference – should support and strengthen the cooperation between the German and the JURIX groups on AI & law research.
The digitalization and computerization of working places of lawyers is moving on. In technology-friendly law firms already up to 7% of the costs are caused by IT & legal information. This reflects the importance of IT in the legal environment. The supply of information is ensured by external and internal, free or pay information systems. The abundance of materials requires the improvement of searching as well as the ranking of search results. Semantic structuring, starting with electronic filing, is becoming the standard. This paves the way for the use of support systems that do more and more certain activities independently. Therefore, the next phase of the computerization of law is before the doors: IT should not only support the delivery of legal services, but also – semi-automatically or automatically – provide legal services itself. In the current transitional phase, the collaboration of man and machine is a decisive factor. The FTRI should show the state of the art and identify the lines of development.
Contributions are welcome on the following topics:
- Legal information
- Electronic data collection and analysis
- Modern search technologies, access to information, “Google” of law
- Analysis of existing legal information systems
- Methods of search support (search suggestions, automated improvements, etc.)
- Ranking according to structures, content, time, importance, etc.
- Semantic legal information systems
- “question answering” systems
- Semantic Mark-up vs. structured information retrieval
- XML standards for legal documents
- Advanced informatics systems in law
- Knowledge representation in the law: assistance for the acquisition, management and use of legal knowledge by means of legal ontologies, semantic web, computer-supported formal methods in law, intelligent agents, etc.
- Support for attorneys in the drafting of documents, negotiations, legal reasoning, support for legislation and policy development, support for the judiciary (and management) in the application of the law, the analysis of evidence, case management, support for the security police, forensic investigations, etc.
- Legal reasoning and legal argumentation, alternative dispute resolution (especially online), etc.
- Advanced software packages in the law firm or notary
Deadlines
- Deadline for submissions for review: 30 September 2011
- Deadline for abstracts / practice presentations of about 1-2 pages (without contribution to the proceedings): 15 October 2011
- Notification of acceptance: 25 October 2011
- Submission of camera ready papers for the electronic proceedings: 15 November 2011. Submissions should be uploaded exclusively via the conference management system.
Guidelines for submissions from academia and practice
The contributions of the conference will be published electronically in the journal Jusletter IT (http://jusletter-it.eu). The length of the contributions is limited to 4 (short papers), or 8 pages. Abstracts will be included in the summary of the workshop. We request that only the style sheets available on the website are used for writing the papers.
Conference organizers
Prof. Dr. Dr. Erich Schweighofer (spokesman of the Legal Informatics Group of the German Society for Informatics GI) , University of Vienna
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wiebe (German Society for Law and Informatics), University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Gordon (Deputy Speaker of the GI group on legal and administrative informatics)), Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin
Organizer
GI German Society for Informatics, Group on Legal Informatics
In co-operation with: – DGRI German Society for Law and Informatics – OCG Working Group on legal Informatics – Centre for Legal Informatics, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna
Participation fees
- Participants: 100 Euros
- OCG / GI / DGRI members: 80 Euros
- Authors / presenters: 80 Euros
- Members of the Programme Committee: 80 Euros
- PhD students upon presentation of a subscription: 50 Euros
Programmkomitee (Preliminary)
- Dr. Pascale Berteloot, Amt für Veröffentlichungen, Luxembourg
- Prof. Dr. Walter Blocher, Universität Kassel
- Dr. Colette R. Brunschwig, Universität Zürich
- Mag. Anton Geist, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
- Prof. Dr. Herbert Fiedler, Uni Bonn
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS
- Matthias Grabmair, University of Pittsburgh
- Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckmann, Universität Passau
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren, Universität Münster
- Prof. Dr. Sayeed Klewitz-Hommelsen, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
- Doz. Dr. Ralph Knackstedt, Universität Münster
- Mag. Peter Kustor, Bundeskanzleramt Wien
- Direktor Franz Kummer, Weblaw
- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Lachmayer, Universität Innsbruck
- Dr. Doris Liebwald
- Prof. Dr. Dagmar Lück-Schneider, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht
- Prof. Dr. Alexander Prosser, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerald Quirchmayr, Universität Wien
- Prof. Dr. Reinhard Riedl, FH Bern
- Prof. Dr. Alexander Roßnagel, Universität Kassel
- Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schafer, Edinburgh University, UK
- Dr. Günther Schefbeck, Parlament Wien
- Dr. Martin Schneider, Justizministerium, Wien
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Erich Schweighofer, Universität Wien
- Prof. DI Mag. Dr. Michael Sonntag, Universität Linz
- Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, Universität Göttingen
- Prof. Dr. Jürgen Taeger, Universität Oldenburg
- Prof. Dr. Roland Traunmüller, Universität Linz
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Wiebe, Universität Göttingen
- Prof. Dr. Maria A. Wimmer, Universität Koblenz-Landau
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