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The twenty-fourth edition of the JURIX conference will be held in Vienna, Austria on December 14th–16th at the University of Vienna’s Centre for Legal Informatics. The submissions for this volume come from authors from 18 different countries, showing the international appeal of the topic and conference. These proceedings comprise 12 full papers, 7 short papers and 3 research abstracts.

The papers span a wide range of topics on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge, and cover foundational theories as well as developed applications. Covered by the papers is work on: the analysis of court decisions; argumentation and proof standards; information and rule extraction from legal texts; permissions; compliance controls; precedents and legal stories; the structure of law; relevance and authority in law; online dispute resolution; measuring the evolution of the law; applications for legal education; data privacy; and conceptual models of legal reasoning for AI applications.

CONTENTS

Full Papers
Toward AI-Enhanced Computer-Supported Peer Review in Legal Education
Kevin Ashley and Ilya Goldin

Relating Values in a Series of Supreme Court Decisions
Trevor Bench-Capon

What Makes a Story Plausible? The Need for Precedents
Floris Bex, Trevor Bench-Capon and Bart Verheij

Implementing Compliance Controls in Public Administration
Alexander Boer and Tom van Engers

Automatic Classification of Personal Conflict Styles in Conflict Resolution
Davide Carneiro, Marco Gomes, Paulo Novais, Francisco Andrade and José Neves

Adapting Software Metrics to Analyze the Evolution of Laws – An Italian Case Study
Aaron Ciaghi, Andrea Dalla Valle and Adolfo Villafiorita

Three Concepts of Defeasible Permission
Guido Governatori, Francesco Olivieri, Antonino Rotolo and Simone Scannapieco

Toward Extracting Information from Public Health Statutes Using Text Classification and Machine Learning
Matthias Grabmair, Kevin D. Ashley, Rebecca Hwa and Patricia M. Sweeney

On Modelling Burdens and Standards of Proof in Structured Argumentation
Henry Prakken and Giovanni Sartor

An Experiment to Find the Deep Structure of Estonian Legislation
Ermo Täks, Leo Vohandu, Ahti Lohk and Innar Liiv

Determining Authority of Dutch Case Law
Radboud Winkels, Jelle de Ruyter and Henryk Kroese

On Rule Extraction from Regulations
Adam Wyner and Wim Peters

Short Papers
A Twofold Parsing Strategy for Italian Court Decisions
Enrico Francesconi and Tommaso Pratelli

On the Detection and Analysis of VAT Carousel Crime
Czeslaw Jedrzejek, Jaroslaw Bak, Maciej Falkowski, Jolanta Cybulka and Maciej Nowak

Privacy Rule Definition Language – A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to ENDORSE Privacy
T. Kurz, C. Ruecker, T.J. Lampoltshammer and T. Heistracher

Permissions in Contracts, a Logical Insight
Gordon J. Pace and Fernando Schapachnik

Author Attribution in US Supreme Court Decisions
Craig Pfeifer

Populating an Online Consultation Tool
Sarah Pulfrey-Taylor, Emily Henthorn, Katie Atkinson, Adam Wyner and Trevor Bench-Capon

Instrumental Inference in Legal Expert System
Tomasz Zurek

Research Abstracts
System for Detection of Illegal Drugs E-Trading
Witold Abramowicz, Piotr Stolarski, Agata Filipowska, Bartosz Perkowski and Krzysztof Węcel

Two Methods for Representing Judicial Reasoning in the Framework of Coherence as Constraint Satisfaction
Michał Araszkiewicz and Jaromír Šavelka

Legal N-Grams? A Simple Approach to Track the Evolution of Legal Language
Daniel Martin Katz, Michael J. Bommarito II, Julie Seaman and Eugene Agichtein