Program of the LeX Summer School 2008 (Download PDF)
All sessions will be held at Villa Schifanoia, either in the conference room called Cappella, or in the computer lab.
  1. Basic course on legal XML and the management of legislative documents
    (8 and 9 September)
  • 9:00-9:15 Registration

    1.1 Introduction to basic web technologies: the lower levels of the semantic web (Monday 8 September)
  • 09:15 - 10:00 Legal sources on the web [Fabio Vitali, Giovanni Sartor]
  • 10:00 - 11:00 Markup languages and web technologies. Introduction to XML [Fabio Vitali]
  • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
  • 11:30 - 13:30 Markup languages and web technologies Introduction to XML [Fabio Vitali]
  • 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
  • 14:30 - 16:00 Creating and managing legal documents in XML [Angelo Di Iorio, Monica Palmirani]
  • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
  • 16:30 - 18:00 Practical: creating and managing legal documents in XML [Angelo Di Iorio, Monica Palmirani]

    1.2 Drafting and managing standard-compliant legislative documents: Basic Level (Tuesday 9 September)
  • 09:00-10:00 Opening Session
  • 10:00-11:00 Naming, structuring and referencing legislative text: legislative traditions and drafting requirement [Guenther Schefbeck, Giovanni Sartor]
  • 11:00-11:30 Coffee break
  • 11:30-12:30 Structuring and referencing legislative resources [Fabio Vitali]
  • 12:30-13:30 Naming legislative resources [Enrico Francesconi, Pierluigi Spinosa]
  • 13:30-14:30 Lunch break
  • 14:30-16:30 Drafting and structuring legislative Acts [Guenther Schefbeck, Monica Palmirani]
  • 16:30-17:30 Practical: Tagging a structured legislative Act [Monica Palmirani, Angelo di Iorio]
  • 17:30-19:00 Welcome Cocktail

  1. Advanced course on legal XML and the management of legislative documents
    (10, 11 and 12 September)
  • 09:00-09:15 Registration

    2.1 Introduction to advanced web technologies: the higher levels of the semantic web (Wednesday 10 September)

  • 09:15-10:00 Naming, structuring and referencing legislative text: theoretical models, legislative traditions and drafting requirements [Gunther Schfbeck, Monica Palmirani]
  • 10:00-11:00 Standards and legislative standards: an overview [Fabio Vitali, Angelo di Iorio]
  • 11:00-11:30 Coffee break
  • 11:30-12:30 Structural markup and design patterns [Fabio Vitali]
  • 12:30-13:30 Metadata and legislative documents [Fabio Vitali]
  • 13:30-14:30 Lunch break
  • 14:30-16:00 Providing semantically information (introduction to RDF and OWL with legal examples) [Mariangela Biasiotti, Daniela Tiscornia, Valeriano Sandrucci]
  • 16:00-16:30 Coffee break
  • 16:30-18:00 Practical: Providing semantically information (introduction to RDF and OWL with legal examples) [Mariangela Biasiotti, Daniela Tiscornia, Valeriano Sandrucci]

    2.2 Drafting and managing standard-compliant legislative documents (A): modelling modifications and procedures (Thursday 11 September)
  • 09:00-10:00 Modifying legislative text: theoretical models, legislative traditions and drafting requirements [Monica Palmirani, Guenther Schefbeck]
  • 10:00-11:00 Legal XML: Legislative metadata and modi cations [Monica Palmirani, Giovanni Sartor]
  • 11:00-11:30 Coffee break
  • 11:30-12:30 Legal XML: Labelling legislative provisions with semantic information [Tommaso Agnoloni, Carlo Biagioli, Enrico Francesconi, Fabrizio Turchi]
  • 12:30-13:30 Legal XML: Legislative processes and all document involved in the lifecycle of the law [Monica Palmirani]
  • 13:30-14:30 Lunch break
  • 14:30-16:00 CEN Metalex: Comparing XML standards, exchanging XML documents [Radboud Winkels, Fabio Vitali]
  • 16:00-16:30 Coffee break
  • 16:30-18:00 Practical Drafting amendments and tagging modi cation [Monica Palmirani]
  • 20:30 Social dinner

    2.3 Modelling legal knowledge (Friday 12 September)

  • 09:00:10:00 Introduction Legal Knowledge Management [Tom Van Engers]
  • 10:00:11:00 Analysis techniques [Tom Van Engers]
  • 11:00-11:30 Coffee break
  • 11:30-12:30 Knowledge Representation [Radboud Winkels]
  • 12:30-13:30 Modelling rules and arguments [Henry Prakken]
  • 13:30-14:30 Lunch break
  • 14:30-15:30 Computational Models of Legal Arguments [Henry Prakken]
  • 15:30-16:30 Building large knowledge-based system [Radboud Winkels, Tom Van Engers]
  • 16:30-17:00 Coffee break
  • 17:00-18:00 Practical: Inferencing with legal rules [Giuseppe Contissa]

  1. Wrap up conference and roundtable (13 September)
  • Drafting and managing standard-compliant legislative documents: present resources and future prospects. [Chair: Carlo Marchetti, Enrico Seta]
    • National XML standards
    • International XML standard
    • Interchange standards
    • XML projects
    • 11:00-11:30 Coffee break
    • From here to where? Hopes, expectations and future developments