For more than 20 years the Jurix Conference has provided an international forum for academics and practitioners in the field of legal informatics for sharing ideas and experiences on the representation of legal content and its representation in computer systems.

The 23^rd edition of Jurix will be organised by the University of Liverpool.

We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge (foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications), including but not limited to the following:

• systems supporting lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation
• systems supporting the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation
• systems supporting the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases
• systems supporting police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations
• systems supporting public administration, in applying regulations and managing information
• systems for the retrieval of legal information
• systems supporting legal education
• systems for digital-rights management
• systems supporting the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods
• systems supporting alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line
• systems and methods to support regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes
• systems and method to support policies and legal issues for social networks
• theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence in the legal domain
• models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures
• models of legal inference and argumentation
• methods for verifying and validating legal knowledge systems
• methods and techniques for managing legal information in the semantic web
• methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems
• XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts
• methods for modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions

Deadline for paper submission is September 5^th, 2010. Papers should be submitted through the Jurix Conference Management System, using PDF, PostScript or Word format, and should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the styles and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the IOS Press site.

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 (www.jurix.nl).

Proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited and strongly encouraged. All proposals, including a short description of the topic, should be sent to the Program Chair by email.

Important Dates

• August 29^th, 2010 Deadline for submission of abstracts
• September 12^th, 2010 Deadline for submission of papers (EXTENDED!)
• September 26^th, 2010 Deadline for submission of tutorials, workshops and demonstration proposals (EXTENDED!)
• October 8^st, 2010 Notification of paper acceptance (EXTENDED!)
• October 17^th, 2010 Camera-ready papers due
• December (14^th and) 15^th, 2010 Jurix Workshops/Tutorials
• December 16^th-17^th, 2010 Jurix 2010 Main Conference

Contacts

You can contact us by sending an email to: jurix2010@jurix.nl.

Program Committee Chair

Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Organisation Committee Chair

Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, U.K.

Program Committee

Radboud Winkels (Chair)	Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands
Kevin D. Ashley	University of Pittsburgh, USA
Katie Atkinson	University of Liverpool, UK
Danièle Bourcier	CNRS CERSA, University of Paris 2, France
Joost Breuker	University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pompeu Casanovas	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Jack G. Conrad	Thomson Reuters, USA
Tom van Engers	Leibniz Center for Law, The Netherlands
Enrico Francesconi	ITTIG-CNR, Florence, Italy
Thomas F. Gordon	Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
Guido Governatori	NICTA, Australia
Carole D. Hafner	Northeastern University, USA
Rinke Hoekstra	VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gloria Lau	FindLaw, USA
Arno R. Lodder	VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Qiang Lu	Thomson Reuters, USA
Thorne McCarthy	Rutgers University, USA
Marie-Francine Moens	KU Leuven, Belgium
Laurens Mommers	Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
Monica Palmirani	University of Bologna, Italy
Henry Prakken	Universiteit Groningen & Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Paulo Quaresma	Universidade de Evora & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Giovanni Sartor	European University Institute, Florence - Cirsfid, University of Bologna, Italy
Ken Satoh	National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Burkhard Schafer	University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Uri Schild	Bar Ilan University, Israel
Bart Verheij	Universiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Fabio Vitali	University of Bologna, Italy
Douglas N. Walton	University of Windsor, Canada
Adam Wyner	University of Leeds, UK
John Zeleznikow	Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia