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Workshop on Approaches to Legal Ontologies

European University Institute, Law Department

9 December 2008 - European University Institute, Villa Schifanoia, Via Boccaccio 33, Fiesole, Italy

10 December 2008 - Social Science University Campus, Aula Convegni (Conference room), block D6 via delle Pandette, n.9, Florence, Italy

• Call for Papers
• Organisation Committe
• Contact
• Important dates
• Venue
• Tentative schedule

The Workshop on "Approaches to legal ontologies" aims at presenting the different ways in which the issue
of defining legal ontologies can be addressed according to different theoretical backgrounds or development objectives.
By identifying and comparing these different approaches we hope to be able to better understand the
rationale of ontology–building in the legal domain, and the problems that have to be addressed. We believe that
this is particularly important nowadays, when legal contents are moving into the semantic web, which requires
machine–understandable information. The challenge is to provide conceptual structures for legal information that
can facilitate the automatic retrieval and processing of information, be shared by a sufficiently broad audience, be
easily mapped to currently used legal concepts (in laws, judicial decisions, legal doctrines and theories), and support
understanding and communication in the legal domain. At the same time we need to consider how to preserve the
possibility of evolution and progress in the law (which presupposes disagreement and debate about legal concepts).
The contributors to theWorkshop will not focus on presenting their particular results in developing legal ontologies,
but rather on presenting a particular perspective, explaining why this perspective is required, and what opportunities
and problems it involves, what answers they have provided to such opportunities and problems.
In particular, the following aspect will be considered:

• The scientific perspective (Barry Smith)
• The philosophical perspective (Maurizio Ferraris)
• The formal perspective (Nicola Guarino)
• The computational-ontology perspective (Aldo Gangemi)
  
• The legal-theory perspective (Giovanni Sartor)
• The sociolegal perspective (Pompeu Casanovas, Nuria Casellas)
• The comparative-law perspective (Gian Maria Ajani)
• The cognitive-science perspective (Joost Breuker, Rinke Hoekstra)
• The linguist's perspective (Mariangela Biasiotti, Daniela Tiscornia)
• The case–based-reasoning perspective (Kevin Ashley)
• The knowledge-engineering perspective (Enrico Francesconi)
• The complex–systems perspective (Daniele Bourcier, Paul Bourgine, Pierre Mazzega)
• The electronic-institutions perspective (Marco Schorlemmer)
• The legal-technology perspective (Tom Van Engers, Radboud Winkels)
• The multilingual-legal-information-system perspective(Guido Boella)
• The document-standard perspective (Monica Palmirani, Fabio Vitali)
• The large-legal-database perspective (Angel Sancho, José Manuel Mateo – Wolters Kluwer–la Ley)
• The legal-multimedia perspective (Xavier Binefa, Ciro Gracia, Emma Teodoro, Nuria Galera)

The contributions presented to the Workshop will be collected in a volume, to be produced by an international publisher, so that they can reach a broad public.

Organisation Committe

• Pompeu Casanovas
• Giovanni Sartor
• Mariangela Biasiotti
• Meritxell Fernandez

Contact

• Meritxell.Fernandez@EUI.eu

Important dates

• 15 November 2008. Abstract of the contribution
• 30 November 2008. First draft to be distribute at the workshop
• 09-10 December 2008.Workshop in Florence
• 01 February 2009. Paper (second draft)
• 28 February 2009. Reviewers' comments
• 30 March 2009. Camera Ready.

Venue

• European University Institute, Law Department
  Villa Schifanoia, Via Boccaccio 33,Florence

Tentative schedule

• 09 December 2008 (European University Institute, Villa Schifanoia, Via Boccaccio 33, Fiesole, Italy)
  – 09:00–9:40 The scientific perspective (Barry Smith)
  – 09:40–10:20 The philosophical perspective (Maurizio Ferraris)
  – 10:20–11:00 The formal perspective (Nicola Guarino)
  – 11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
  – 11:30–12:00 The computational–ontology perspective (Aldo Gangemi)
  – 12:00–12:30 The legal–theory perspective (Giovanni Sartor)
  – 12:30–13:00 The sociolegal perspective (Pompeu Casanovas, Nuria Casellas)
  – 13:00–14:00 Lunch
  – 14:00–14:30 The comparative–law perspective (Gian Maria Ajani)
  – 14:30–15:00 The cognitive–science perspective (Joost Breuker, Rinke Hoekstra)
  – 15:30–16:00 The linguist's perspective (Mariangela Biasiotti, Daniela Tiscornia)
  – 16:00–16:30 Coffee Break
  – 17:00–17:30 The case–based–reasoning perspective (Kevin Ashley)
  – 17:30–18:00 The knowledge-engineering perspective (Enrico Francesconi)
  – 20.30 Dinner
  
  
• 10 December 2008 (Social Science University Campus, Aula Convegni (Conference room), block D6
  via delle Pandette, n.9, Florence, Italy)
  – 09:00–09:30 The complex–systems perspective (Daniele Bourcier, Paul Bourgine, Pierre Mazzega)
  – 09:30–10:00 The electronic-institutions perspective (Marco Schorlemmer)
  – 10:00–10:30 The legal–technology perspective (Tom Van Engers, Radboud Winkels)
  – 10:30–11:00 The multilingual–legal–information–system perspective(Guido Boella)
  – 11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
  – 11:30–12:00 The document-standard perspective (Monica Palmirani, Fabio Vitali)
  – 12:00–12:30 The large–legal–database perspective (Angel Sancho, José Manuel Mateo – Wolters
  Kluwer–la Ley)
  – 12:30–13:00 The legal–multimedia perspective (Xavier Binefa, Ciro Gracia, Emma Teodoro, Nuria
  Galera)
  – 13:00–13:30 Roundtable–Conclusions