A workshop on Legal Informatic Systems is being organized as part of the International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS 2007), which will take place in Salzburg, Austria, from February 22-24, 2007. The workshop is being organized by the Special Interest Group on Legal Informatic Systems of German Society for Informatics. A Call for Presentations is available. A title and 2-3 page abstract of the talk should be sent to the workshop chair, Burkhard Schafer, by October 31, 2006. Please contact him for the full Call for Participation or further information.

The Conference on Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings will take place at Cardozo Law School, New York City (Manhattan), January 28-29, 2007. This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars and practitioners from such fields as law, philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and linguistics who are interested in the graphic visualization of legal evidentiary inference and its support by software tools. The final program is now available at the conference web site. Attendance is open to everyone; there is no registration fee. For more details see the conference web site.