International Law and Technology conference (fwd)

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

                         CALL FOR PROPOSALS
                   WORKSHOP ON LAW AND TECHNOLOGY
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   17th IVR '95 WORLD CONGRESS, BOLOGNA (Italy), JUNE 16-21, 1995
         "Challenges to Law at the End of the 20th Century"


               DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL OF THEMES: JUNE   30, 1994
               DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT OF PAPERS: AUGUST 31, 1994
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The International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social
Philosophy will hold its 17th world congress in Bologna (Italy) on
June 16th to 21st, 1995. The IVR world congress is the most important
congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, and takes place
every 2 years in various parts of the world.


The 17th world congress will be devoted to the changes, new functions
and roles of law at the end of our century, bearing in mind the
crucial events that have characterized the last decade. New forms of
sovereignty and citizenship are appearing in Europe; new
international orders are prevailing in the world; problems of
nationality, religion and ethnic groups are also evolving in new
ways. Technology and the media have an enormous impact on law and
justice, which are called upon to carry out very demanding tasks. The
traditional theory of the sources of law has to be largely
re-examined, and many issues of rights are at stake. A part of the
congress will be devoted to reports on the current state of research
in legal and social philosophy in different countries or cultural
areas.


Distinguished lecturers will address the topics characterizing the
main sessions:
- Rights and Other Legal Protections
- New Forms of Sovereignty and Citizenship
- New and Ancient Sources of Law
- Law and Technology
Parallel sessions, symposia and workshops will provide a comprehensive
coverage of these main themes.


The 17th IVR World Congress will consider including one or more
workshops dedicated to the reciprocal influences of technology and
law, with particular reference to the field of computer science.
The exponential growth of large-scale, international computer network
poses new relevant legal problems, from copyright to privacy to
computer crimes; new network services aid law scholars and
professionals in their job; advanced AI research finds in the law
domain interesting topics of study; the large masses of legal
documents require innovative paradigms for handling, storing and
retrieving data: information retrieval, hypertext and advanced data
bases are interesting candidates.


Contributions are welcome on the following suggested topics and others
that may be considered interesting. A partial list of subjects is:
- legal issues in international networks
- artificial intelligence and law
- hypertext for law
- legal databases and information retrieval systems
- privacy and technology
- computer crimes


Authors are invited to send statements of interest and submit
abstracts of possible papers by AUGUST 31, 1994. Further
suggestions of other topics, possible speakers, and possible
demostrations of relevant products needs to be received no later than
JUNE 30, 1994 to the address below. Please note that, in order to
speed the processing of messages, all correspondence should have
"IVR 95" as part of the subject.


For all corrispondence about the Conference please refer to:
Fabio Vitali
CIRFID - University of Bologna
Via Galliera 3,
40121 Bologna (Italy)
tel: +39 (0)51 261062; fax: +39 (0)51 260782;
e-mail: fabio () cirfid unibo it