LDAD18: Legal Design as Academic Discipline: Foundations, Methodology, Applications Het Kasteel Groningen, Netherlands, December 12, 2018 |
Conference website | http://gdprbydesign.cirsfid.unibo.it/legaldesign-workshop/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldad18 |
Submission deadline | November 14, 2018 |
Legal Design is an interdisciplinary approach to apply human-centered design to prevent or solve legal problems. It can help to create functional, inclusive and transparent legal documents, services, and systems. The workshop “Legal Design as Academic Discipline: Foundations, Methodology, Applications” will take place on December 12, 2018 in Groeningen (Netherlands) during JURIX, the 31st international conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. Please note that you must register and participate in the workshop, if your paper is accepted.
Submission Guidelines
Ideally, your paper should include:
- The research scenario
- The research questions and motivation
- Methodology
- Analysis and results
- Limitations
- Future work
- Conclusions
Deadlines:
- 14 November 2018: Submission of draft paper (min. 2000 words)
- 24 November 2018: Notification of acceptance
- 30 November 2018: Submission of nearly final version of paper for workshop documentation
- 12 December 2018: workshop at JURIX2018 (one half day, in the morning)
- 20 December 2018: final version of paper for publication
Papers must be in English and must be submitted in anonymous form on Easychair. Min. 2000 words and max. 5000 words.
Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 PC members.
List of Topics
This workshop welcomes theoretical contributions, for instance on:
- What is Legal Design? What is it not?
- Which methodologies can be applied and for which purposes?
- From which neighbouring research fields can Legal Design benefit?
- What is the added value of Legal Design to the academic field?
- How can Legal Design help to develop and validate new legal theories?
It also welcomes the description of practical applications (projects, practices and examples, better if grounded in legal informatics):
- access, usability, communication and visualisation of legal documents, data and information
- improving access to justice and remedies for different stakeholders
- design of interfaces for artificial intelligence in the legal domain
- design and evaluation of legal digital services (platforms, apps, etc.)
- usable applications for natural language processing of legal texts
- design of technologies (e.g. blockchain, algorithms, artificial intelligence, platforms, etc.) in compliance with the applicable laws
- implementation and enforcement of legal principles through IT, design and behavioural economics (choice architectures, patterns, etc.)
- interpretation of legal visualizations
- transparency of legal information and documentation
- usability in privacy, data protection, and security
- Legal Design in & for education
Committees
Program Committee
- Arianna Rossi (University of Bologna and University of Luxembourg)
- Rossana Ducato (UCLouvain and Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles)
- Margaret Hagan (Stanford University)
- Jorge Gabriel Jimenez (Stanford University)
- Monica Palmirani (University of Bologna)
- Helena Haapio (Vaasa University)
- Stefania Passera (Helsinki University)
- Yki Kortesniemi (Helsinki University)
- Alain Strowel (UCLouvain, Université Saint-Louis, KULeuven, Munich IP Law Center.)
- Emily Allbon (City Law School)
- Gabry Vanderveen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- Thomas D. Barton (California Western School of Law)
- Gerlinde Berger-Walliser (University of Connecticut)
- Eliza Mik (Singapore Management University)
- Maria Schmidt-Kessen (Queen Mary University London)
- Ivar Timmer (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences)
Organizing committee
- Arianna Rossi (University of Bologna and University of Luxembourg)
- Rossana Ducato (UCLouvain and Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles)
- Margaret Hagan (Stanford University)
- Jorge Gabriel Jimenez (Stanford University)
- Monica Palmirani (University of Bologna)
Venue
The workshop will be held in Het Kasteel, Groeningen, the Netherlands.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to arianna.rossi15@unibo.it