Celebrating 25 years of supporting and enhancing cutting edge research in the interface between law and computer technology, the 2012 JURIX conference will return to its roots in Amsterdam. We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications for the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

• Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
• Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation;
• Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
• Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
• Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
• Support for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods;
• Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks;
• Retrieval of legal information;
• Legal education;
• Digital-rights management;
• Alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line;
• Regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
• Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain;
• Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures;
• Legal inference and argumentation;
• Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems;
• Management of legal information in the semantic web;
• XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
• Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions;
• Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems;
• Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications;
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems.

The deadline for paper submission is September 1^st, 2012. Papers should be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management System,

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurix2012

using PDF, 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 under ìBook Publishingî in the ìAuthorsí Cornerî. Authors are strongly encouraged to use these style sheets, as papers not meeting the publisherís criteria or exceeding the page limit will be excluded from inclusion in the proceedings.

The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press (Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC) in their series ìFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applicationsî before the Conference.

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. There will also be a possibility to publish selected workshop papers with a range of peer reviewed journals, including SCRIPTed.

Programme Committee

• Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Zsolt Balogh, University of Pecs, Hungary
• Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
• Floris Bex, University of Dundee, UK
• Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 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
• Anne Gardner, Atherton, USA
• Thomas F. Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
• Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
• Carole D. Hafner, Northeastern University, USA
• Rinke Hoekstra, VU University Amsterdam/University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Arno R. Lodder, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Thorne McCarthy, Rutgers University, USA
• Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Laurens Mommers, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
• Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
• Radim Polčák, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
• Henry Prakken, Universiteit Groningen & Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Evora & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Antonio Rotolo, University of Bologna, Italy
• Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Florence - Cirsfid, University of
• Bologna, Italy
• Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
• Erich Sweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
• Uri Schild, Bar Ilan University, Israel
• Bart Verheij, Universiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
• Douglas N. Walton, University of Windsor, Canada
• Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands
• Adam Wyner, University of Liverpool, UK
• John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Program Chair

Burkhard Schafer,
SCRIPT Centre for IT and IP Law,
University of Edinburgh, UK.
b.schafer@ed.ac.uk

Local Organisation Chair

Tom van Engers,
Leibniz Center for Law, Faculty of Law,
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
vanEngers@uva.nl

Important Dates:

• September 1^st, 2012 Deadline for submission of papers
• September 30^th, 2012 Notification of acceptance
• October 5^th, 2012 Final, camera-ready copies required
• September 15^th, 2012 Deadline for proposals for workshops and tutorials
• December 18^th-19^th, 2012 Main Conference
• December 17^th, 2012 Workshops/Tutorials

The Jurix conferences are held under the auspices of the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems (www.jurix.nl).