IDT - Institute of Law and Technology

The UAB Institute of Law and Technology (IDT) is a research center that brings together researchers from different disciplines to focus on new approaches to law and technology. The Institute aims at promoting and furthering the development of law and technology related issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. Our areas of research include law and artificial intelligence, the semantic web, cultural and legal ontologies, IT governance, legal culture and judicial studies, conflict resolution, and online dispute resolution (ODR).

The IDT has been officially created by the UAB Governing Board Decision of January 27th 2005

Forthcoming events :

Jornada: Dret Públic i Mediació 22 Octubre Universitat de Barcelona

AI approaches to the complexity of legal systems (Follow-up) 16th December Rotterdam, Holland

News :
	La consellera de Justícia, Montserrat Tura, ha presentat l’estudi “La justícia de pau a Catalunya”, coordinat per Marta Poblet, investigadora ICREA de l’Institut de Dret i Tecnologia de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, amb el suport de la Diputació de Barcelona i la Fundació Carles Pi i Sunyer. més informació
Presentació del projecte: 'Codi de Bones Pràctiques'
IDT Series at Huygens Editorial
	The Governing Council of the Autonomous University of Barcelona gives the Award of Research Excellence (PREI 2008) to Dr. Pompeu Casanovas for his book Trends in Legal Knowledge. The Semantic Web and the Regulation of Electronic Social Systems. more information
	Groups of Excellence (SGR - GRC) The Catalan Agency for Administration of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) has awarded two IDT research groups with the recognition of Groups of Excellence (SGR - GRC). more information
	Artificial Intelligence and Law The 12th International Conference june 8-12, 2009 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Proceedings of the Conference
	Expanding the Horizons of ODR Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Online Dispute Resolution Editors: M. Poblet Online Version
	LOAIT 2009 3rd Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artifi cial Intelligence Techniques joint with 2nd Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Text Editors: N. Casellas, E. Francesconi, R. Hoekstra, S. Montemagnit
	Law, Ontologies and the Semantic Web Channelling the Legal Information Flood Volume 188 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Editors: J. Breuker, P. Casanovas, M.C.A. Klein and E. Francesconi Information
	Computable Models of the Law Languages, Dialogues, Games, Ontologies P.Casanovas G.Sartor N.Casellas R.Rubino (Eds.) Information - On line version
	Trends in Legal Knowledge the Semantic Web and the Regulation of Electronic Social Systems Pompeu Casanovas, Pablo Noriega, Danièle Bourcier, Fernando Galindo (Eds.)
Semantic Web Use Case: Helping New Judges Answer Complex Legal Questions Iuriservice is an intelligent FAQ system containing over a thousand frequently asked questions, along with their corresponding legal answers. The system offers support to newly-recruited judges for two different judicial needs: 1) a FAQ search system; and 2) a case law search and browse system. The FAQ search system permits the user to search a database of stored question-answer pairs using a natural language interface, and the case law tool offers a search and browse application for databases with judicial decisions

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