10 Dec 2014
Krakow, Poland
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: *The 1st International Workshop for Methodologies for Research on Legal Argumentation* (MET-ARG) -------- December 10, 2014, Kraków, Poland at JURIX 2014 (*The 27th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems*, http://conference.jurix.nl/2014/) MET-ARG is held in conjunction with the CMNA 14 workshop ( http://www.cmna.info/CMNA14) and is organized under auspices of the ArgDiaP organisation. http://argdiap.pl/ -------- The aim of the workshop is to provide a space for exchange of methodological ideas concerning the research on legal argumentation from three perspectives: AI and Law, argumentation theory and legal theory. Since a thorough discussion of scientific aims and adopted methodologies is needed in this field, our main motivation is to discuss some perspectives of cooperation and mutual inspiration between these three research areas in order to develop more effective, accurate and scientifically adequate theories and models of legal argumentation. This may lead to establishing of interdisciplinary research projects related to legal argumentation. Since we intend to facilitate a vivid and fruitful discussion of these issues, we would like to call for participation in the workshop on behalf of the organizing committee. -------- CONTRIBUTORS At the workshop eight position papers will be presented by key specialists in the fields of AI and Law, argumentation theory and legal theory: -- Kevin Ashley (University of Pittsburgh, US), Automatically Extracting Arguments from Legal Texts -- Giovanni Damele (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal), The 'a simili' argument as a rhetorical device -- Luis Duarte d'Almeida (University of Edinburgh, UK), The merits of working from case law: an illustration -- Thomas F. Gordon (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Software Engineering for Research on Legal Argumentation -- Mathilde Janier (University of Dundee, UK), Mark Aakhus (Rutgers University, US), Katarzyna Budzynska (Polish Academy of Science, Poland & University of Dundee, UK) & Chris Reed (University of Dundee, UK), Games mediators play: empirical methods for deriving dialogue structure -- Andrzej Kisielewicz (University of Wroc?aw, Poland), What makes formal methods applicable in argumentation, AI and law -- Fabrizio Macagno (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Presumptive and systematic reasoning in defamation cases -- Douglas Walton (University of Windsor, Canada) A Middle Way between Formal Models and Natural Language Legal Argumentation The presentation of the position papers will be followed by a panel discussion ?*Force of Legal Arguments: Contemporary Perspectives and Methods*? to which all the workshop's participants will be invited. An introduction to the discussion will be provided by three short statements given by the researchers representing various areas and approaches to legal argumentation: -- Marcello Ceci (AI and Law, University College Cork, Ireland), TBA -- Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki (legal theory, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland), TBA -- Mariusz Urba?ski (cognitive science, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland), Do diversify -------- PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION The registration panel is accessible through the main JURIX 2014 website: http://conference.jurix.nl/2014/?page_id=181 -- Early registration fee (before 17 November): 230 PLN (ca. 55 EUR) -- Late registration fee (after 17 November): 450 PLN (ca. 107 EUR) IMPORTANT: The registration fee covers also the participation in the CMNA workshop http://www.cmna.info/CMNA14 (to be held on the same day as the MET-ARG workshop, in the same room but different sessions). -------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Micha? Araszkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) Kevin Ashley (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Katarzyna Budzynska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland & University of Dundee, UK) Christian Dahlman (University of Lund, Sweden) Giovanni Damele (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Luis Duarte d'Almeida (University of Edinburgh, UK) Eveline Feteris (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Thomas F. Gordon (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany) Andrzej Kisielewicz (University of Wroc?aw, Poland) Marcin Koszowy (University of Bialystok, Poland) Fabrizio Macagno (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Marcin Selinger (University of Wroc?aw, Poland) Mariusz Urba?ski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland) Douglas Walton (University of Windsor, Canada) Tomasz ?urek (Marie Curie Sk?odowska University, Lublin, Poland) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Micha? Araszkiewicz (CHAIR, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) Marcin Koszowy (University of Bialystok, Poland) Tomasz ?urek (Marie Curie Sk?odowska University, Lublin, Poland) -------- For more details, please visit the website: http://argdiap.pl/ -- Katarzyna Budzynska Polish Academy of Sciences & University of Dundee http://argdiap.pl/budzynska/