CFP: JURIX-03: 2nd Call for Participation

                         Second Call for Participation

                           16th Annual Conference on
                     LEGAL KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
                                (JURIX-2003)

                             December 11-12, 2003
                           Utrecht, The Netherlands

                         http://www.cs.uu.nl/jurix03/

                Early registration deadline: November 15, 2003

The sixteenth JURIX conference will be held in Utrecht, the fourth 
largest city of the Netherlands, jointly organised by the Faculty of Law 
and the Institute of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht 
University. The conference venue is located at the heart of Utrecht's 
attractive historic centre.

The early registration deadline of the JURIX-2003 conference is November 
15. An online registration form can be found at the conference website, 
together with details about the conference programme and associated events.


                                 CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

* Invited Talks:
   - D.J. van Dijk (Dutch Council of the Judiciary)
   - Giovanni Sartor (CIRSFID, University of Bolgona)

* Conference Workshops:
   - Question Answering for Interrogating Legal Documents
   - The Development of Standards for Describing Legal Documents

* Paper presentations by authors from Argentina, Australia, Austria, 
France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, The 
United Kingdom, The United States,

* Dinner at the historic "Academiegebouw" of Utrecht University, with a 
dinner speech by Willem Wagenaar (University College Utrecht / NIAS 
Wassenaar).

* Associated events:
   - December 9th, Amsterdam: E-Government Workshop.
   - December 10th, Utrecht: SIKS Masterclass on "Normatics", with
     . Trevor Bench-Capon (University of Liverpool)
     . Marek Sergot (Imperial College London)
     . Tom van Engers (University of Amsterdam / Dutch Tax and Customs
       Office)
     . Giovanni Sartor (CIRSFID, University of Bolgona)

JURIX-03 is organised under the auspices of JURIX, the Dutch Foundation 
for  Legal Knowledge-based systems, in collaboration with:
- SIKS, the Dutch research school for information and knowledge systems;
- Leibniz Centre for Law, University of Amsterdam;
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Pluridisciplinary 
Network (RTP) on Law and Information Systems, France;
and sponosored by
- RuleWise (http://www.rulewise.nl/)


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* Conference web site: http://www.cs.uu.nl/jurix03/
* Conference secretariat: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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