Call for Participation: Jurix 2007
28/11/07 13:32 Opgeslagen in: Conferences
The twentieth Jurix conference will take place in
Leiden, The Netherlands, December 12-15, 2007. Topics
of the conference include legal ontologies, legal
argumentation, multilingual legislative drafting,
legal XML standards, online dispute resolution, etc.
There will also be several workshops and tutorials,
on modelling legal cases, multimedia ontologies,
access to justice, legislative XML, and
technology-enhanced dispute resolution. See the
conference web site for
information about how to register.
Spanish Book Series on Law, Science and Technology
27/11/07 16:14
A new series of books on law, science and technology,
in Spanish, was recently announced by Ramon López de
Mántaras in Madrid (Residencia de Estudiantes) and in
Barcelona (Institut d'Estudis Catalans). The first
volume is a Spanish translation of Herbert Simon's
"The Sciences of the Artificial".
A second volume, on cognitive science and social
networks, entitled "Interracion, Redes Sociales y
Ciencias Cognitivas", by Carlos Lozares
Colina, has also been published.
Postdoc Position Available in Barcelona
01/11/07 18:29 Opgeslagen in: Job Offers
The Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) has
announced the availability of a two-year postdoctoral
research grant in the Department of Political Science
and Public Law. Eligible candidates are persons who
have received a PhD from a university other than the
UAB after 1 July 1998 as well as holders of a PhD
received from the UAB after 1 July 1998 who have had
a minimum of two years experience in a postdoctoral
research position at some other university of
research center. The grants last a total of 2 years
and cannot be renewed. The position begins during the
first four-months of 2008. The grant amount i 24,750
Euros (gross) per year. Deadline: Applications must
be submitted by to November 2, 2007. See the website
of the Institute of Law and Technology
at UAB for contact information and further
details.
Norm Change Workshop – Call for Participation
01/11/07 17:54 Opgeslagen in: Conferences
The Workshop
on Formal Models of Norm Change will take
place at the University of Luxembourg from
November 29-30, 2007. Formal models of norm
change have been drawing attention since the
seminal works of Alchourrón and Bulygin on
normative systems, and that of Alchourrón,
Gärdenfors and Makinson on the logic of theory
change. In order to represent the dynamics of
obligations and permissions, several deontic
logics have been proposed. However, these
systems did not explicitly refer to possible
changes in the underlying norms - if norms were
mentioned, they were assumed to be invariable.
See the Call
for Participation for further information.