2nd International Workshop “Network Analysis in Law”

in conjunction with JURIX 2014: The 27th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
10-12 December 2014, Krakow, Poland
http://www.leibnizcenter.org/~winkels/NAiL2014.html

>>>DEADLINE EXTENDED!!!
In 2013 we organized the first workshop on Network Analysis in Law at the 14th ICAIL conference in Rome. Eight papers were presented on various aspects of this field and after the conference extended versions of these eight, plus an extended version of a paper from the main conference were collected in a volume of the “Law Science Technology” series (ISBN 9788849527698).

This second workshop again aims to bring together researchers from computational social science, computational legal theory, network science and related disciplines in order to discuss the use and usefulness of network analysis in the legal domain.
We invite papers and demonstrations of original works on the following aspects of network analysis in the legal field:

  1. Analysis and visualization of networks of people and institutions: law is made by people, about and for people and institutions. These people or institutions form networks, be it academic scholars, criminals or public bodies and these networks can be detected, mapped, analysed and visualised. Can we better study institutions and their activities by analysing their internal structure or the network of their relations? Does it help in finding the ‘capo di tutti i capi’ in organized crime?
  2. Analysis and visualization of the network of law: law itself forms networks. Sources of law refer to other sources of law and together constitute (part of) the core of the legal system. In the same way as above, we can represent, analyse and visualise this network. Can it help in determining the authority of case law or the likelihood a decision will be overruled? Does it shed light on complex or problematic parts of legislation? Is it possible to exploit networks visualization to support legal analysis and information retrieval?
  3. Combination of the first and second aspects: people or institutions create sources of law or appear in them: Research on the network of one may shed light on the other. Two examples:
  4. a. Legal scholars write commentaries on proposed legislation or court decisions. Sometimes they write these together. These commentaries may provide information on the network of scholars; the position of an author in the network of scholars may provide information on the authority of the comment.
    b. The application of network analysis techniques to court decisions and proceedings is proving to be helpful in detecting criminal organizations and in analysing their structure and evolution over time.

    Submissions will be subject to a light review process on appropriateness for this call, originality of the research described and technical quality.
    Submission of papers of around 3000 words should be done through Easychair at:
    https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nail2014

    Workshop Format
    Short presentations and/or demonstrations and discussion.

    Publication Opportunities
    Selected papers will be published in extended form in a volume of the Series “Law Science Technology” (ESI) after another review round.

    Important Dates
    Submission due: November 10th 2014 (extended)
    Accept/Reject notification: November 21st 2014 (extended)
    NAiL2014 Workshop: December 2014

    Organisation Committee
    Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands
    Nicola Lettieri, University of Sannio Law School, Italy

    Programme Committee
    Michael Bommartio, ReInventLaw Laboratory, Michigan, USA
    Romain Boulet, University of Lyon, France
    Daniele Bourcier, CNRS, France
    Pompeu Casanovas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
    Sebastiano Faro, ITTIG-CNR, Italy
    Giacomo Fiumara, University of Messina, Italy
    Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
    Daniel Katz, Michigan State University, USA
    Marc Lauritsen, Capstone Practice, USA
    Nicola Lettieri, University of Sannio Law School, Italy
    Delfina Malandrino, University of Salerno, Italy
    Marc van Opijnen, Knowledge Center for Official Government Publications, Netherlands
    Innar Liiv, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
    Thomas Smith, University of San Diego Law School, USA
    Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands (chair)

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