Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Jurix 2002 is the fifteenth conference in the Jurix series of annual international conferences devoted to the application of advanced informatics techniques to the legal domain. The proceedings contain a selection of peer reviewed papers from researchers representing current work at the leading edge of this field. Typical topics are: models of legal reasoning, legal ontologies, representation of legal knowledge, systems that support legal decision making, drafting, knowledge discovery and teaching, storage and retrieval of legal information, applications of machine learning to law, data mining for legal applications, legal theoretical foundations, verification and validation of legal knowledge systems, knowledge acquisition for legal knowledge systems, methodologies for the development of legal knowledge systems.