LEX Summer School 2009
"Managing Legal Resources in the Semantic Web"

7-12 September 2009 - San Domenico di Fiesole (Florence)

Application deadline: 15 July 2009 (Extended Deadline: 7 August 2009)

Rationale of the Summer School

Good management of legal documents involves at least five aspects:

  • Drafting methods, to improve the language and the structure of legislative texts;
  • Legal XML standards, to improve the accessibility and interoperability of legal resources;
  • Legal ontologies, to capture legal metadata and legal semantics;
  • Formal representation of legal contents,  to support legal reasoning and argumentation;
  • Workflow models, to cope with the lifecycle of legal documentation.

The summer school will address all of these aspects, through multi- and interdisciplinary competences. It will provide and integrated approach to the management of legal documentation, as a core aspect of legislative and administrative innovation.


Organization
Co-director: Giovanni Sartor
Marie-Curie Professor of Legal informatics and Legal Theory
European University Institute, Law Department
Badia Fiesolana,Via dei Roccettini 9
50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI), ITALY
Tel:+39-055-4685-528
Secretary:+39-055-4685-239
Fax: +39-055-4685-200
E-mail: giovanni.sartor@eui.eu
Web site

Co-director: Enrico Pattaro
Director of Cirsfid - University of Bologna
Via Galliera 3, 40121 Bologna
Tel:+39-051-277211
Fax: +39-051-260782
E-mail: cirsfid-pat.cirsfid@unibo.it

Program Committee

  • Tom van Engers, University of Amsterdam - Leibeniz Center for Law
  • Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna - CIRSFID
  • Giovanni Sartor, EUI
  • Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna - Computer Science Department
Scientific Committee
  • Carlo Biagioli, ITTIG, CNR - Italy
  • Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam - Leibniz Center for Law
  • Maria Angela Biasiotti, ITTIG-CNR, Italy
  • Pompeu Casanovas, IDT-UAB, Spain
  • Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG, CNR - Italy
  • Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer - Fokus - Germany
  • Caterina Lupo, CNIPA
  • Pierluigi Spinosa, ITTIG, CNR - Italy
  • Daniela Tiscornia, ITTIG, CNR - Italy
  • Tom van Engers, University of Amsterdam - Leibniz Center for Law
  • Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam - Leibniz Center for Law

General principles and target groups
    The general principles of the course are presented in the following list:

  1. LEX is oriented to public administrators, legal drafters, publisher of legal resources and residually to students. It is not a conference for experts (except for the last day) nor a slot for presenting personal theories
  2. Every section should ideally include at least a section of practice and exercise.
  3. Each main concepts should be presented with examples or, better, by starting from examples of concrete needs, success cases, bad and good practices.
  4. The exercises and the examples should ideally be connected to the countries of the students (see the list of participants).
  5. Stimulate the student with group-work whenever it is possible.
  6. Provide material before the lesson (not just the slides) for a personal "thinking" introduction: simple articles, news, case-law, scenarios, success cases, etc. Not more than 15 pages, ideally 5, just to stimulate curiosity.
  7. We have two different kinds of students, with either ICT or Legal background. We should balance the message and make it interdisciplinary. Particular attention should be put in creating groups for the practice sessions in order to have a balance in term of competences.
  8. We should convey understandable messages, which meet the concrete needs of the students.



Language
    The program is conducted entirely in English, but slides and written material will be available to enable everybody to follow the lectures and participate in discussions.


Classes
    LEX accepts the participation of maximum 35 individuals.

Credits and evaluation
Certificate of Completion and four education credits (ECTS) will be awarded.

Sponsoring Institution