Call for Participation: Legislative XML Summer School 2008 (DEADLINE EXTENSION)

(apologies for multiple postings)

Legislative XML Summer School 2008
"Drafting and managing standard-compliant legislative documents"

8-13 September 2008 - San Domenico di Fiesole (Florence)

Application deadline (EXTENDED!): 31 July 2008
http://www.one-lex.eu/Activities/summerschool/registration.html

The school aims at providing knowledge of the most significant ICT  
standards emerging for legislation, an understanding of their impact  
in the different phases of the legislative process, awareness of the  
tools based on legislative standards, and the ability to participate  
in the preparation and use of standard-compliant documents throughout  
law-making process.

This edition LeX Summer School is organized in two courses:
http://www.one-lex.eu/Activities/summerschool/program.html

    1. A Basic Course providing an introduction to the XML web  
technologies and the basic level of the technologies for drafting and  
managing standard-compliant legislative documents;
    2. An Advanced Course on the higher levels of the semantic web  
technologies as applied to the legislative domain: modelling  
modifications, procedures and legal knowledge.


Aim of the course
     LeX is an intensive, 6-day program that requires participants'  
total dedication and intellectual commitment. The program's learning  
process assists participants to develop both knowledge and skills in  
using and manging shared or interoperable standards for legislative  
document enabling access, communication, processing, and integration  
of legislation through IT technologies, in an open and cooperative  
framework.
     Standards concern different aspects of legislation: abstract  
(logical) ways of identifying legislative documents, ways of  
structuring legislative documents and data, ways of dealing with  
changes in the law, ways of distinguishing and representing the  
different stages of the life cycle of a law text (from first drafts,  
to parliamentary discussions, to amendments, to subsequent  
modifications), ways of defining and applying conceptual  
classifications to law texts, ways of building executable  
representations of legislative knowledge.
     All of these aspects will be addressed in the school, which aims  
at providing knowledge of the most significant standards emerging for  
legislation, an understanding of their impact in the different phases  
of the legislative process, awareness of the technologies based on  
legislative standards, and the ability to participate in the  
preparation and use of standard-compliant documents throughout the law- 
making process.

Main topics

     * Markup languages and web technologies
     * Principles of legislative markup at European and extra European  
level
     * Applications and tools for managing legislative documents
     * Legislative norms in the Information Society
     * Legislative ontology and Legislative quality standards
     * Logical identification of legislative texts
     * Semantic structure of normative texts
     * Legislative standards in legislative process
     * Models of legal contents
     * E-legislation

Organization
Co-director: Giovanni Sartor
Marie-Curie Professor of Legal informatics and Legal Theory
European University Institute, Law Department
Badia Fiesolana,Via dei Roccettini 9
50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI), ITALY
Tel:+39-055-4685-528
Secretary:+39-055-4685-275
Fax: +39-055-4685-200
E-mail: giovanni.sartor@eui.eu
http://www.eui.eu/LAW/People/Faculty/CVs/sartor.shtml

Co-director: Enrico Pattaro
Director of Cirsfid - University of Bologna
Via Galliera 3, 40121 Bologna
Tel:+39-051-277211
Secretary: 39-051-2772
Fax: +39-051-260782
E-mail: cirsfid-pat@cirsfid.unibo.it

Program Committee

     * Tom van Engers, University of Amsterdam - Leibniz Center for Law
     * Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna - CIRSFID
     * Giovanni Sartor, EUI
     * Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna - Computer Science Department

Scientific Committee

     * Carlo Biagioli, ITTIG, CNR - Italy
     * Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam - Leibniz Center for Law
     * Maria Angela Biasiotti, ITTIG-CNR, Italy
     * Gladys Boss Sholley, Kenya Law Report - Kenya
     * Angelo di Iorio, University of Bologna - Department of Computer  
Science
     * Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG, CNR - Italy
     * Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer - Fokus - Germany
     * Caterina Lupo, CNIPA
     * Pierluigi Spinosa, ITTIG, CNR - Italy
     * Daniela Tiscornia, ITTIG, CNR - Italy
     * Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam - Leibniz Center for Law
     * Flavio Zeni, UNDESA

Target group
     We seek applicants who are interested in legislative drafting and  
in the electronic management of legal sources and who intend to work  
in this area in the future.
LEX is designed primarily for officers of legislative bodies and other  
normative authorities (at the national, international, regional and  
local level), but its target group also includes drafters of normative  
texts in the private sector, documentalists dealing with legal  
sources, experts in the electronic management of legal texts, student  
and researchers working in legal informatics and legislation studies.

Language
     The program is conducted entirely in English, but slides and  
written material will be available to enable everybody to follow the  
lectures and participate in discussions.

Scholarships opportunities
     5 scholariships for students will be available, covering the  
registration fee (travel and accommodation not included).


Classes
     LEX accepts the participation of maximum 35 individuals.

Credits and evaluation
Certificate of Completion and four education credits (ECTS) will be  
awarded.

Sponsoring Institutions

     * CIRSFID, Faculty of law, University of Bologna, Bologna (www.cirsfid.unibo.it 
)
     * European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole,  
Florence (www.eui.eu)
     * Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam (www.leibnizcenter.org 
)
     * ITTIG-CNR, Florence (www.ittig.cnr.it)
     * Italian Parliament (www.parlamento.it)
     * Global Centre for ICT in Parliament (www.ictparliament.org)
     * ONE-LEX Marie-Curie Chair (www.one-lex.eu)




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