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ARGUMENTATION 2013 – the Third International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law

Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic – November 8, 2013

www.argumentation2013.wordpress.com

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The main aim of the ARGUMENTATION 2013 conference is to bring together legal practitioners and people from academia to discuss the topics related to different approaches and techniques employed in legal argumentation. One of the core characteristics of the conference is its interdisciplinarity. Thus the perspective of law should be connected to the problems from philosophy, logic, sociology, computer science, artistic disciplines, etc.

The list of areas / topics includes, but is not limited to:

– formal and quantitative models of legal reasoning
– argumentation schemes, models of legal inference
– computational features of legal argumentation
– interpretation of literature in jurisprudence
– literature in legal argumentation
– use of literature in court decisions
– propaganda in service of law and jurisprudence
– speech and register analysis
– symbols and communication in law
– IT, language and law
– analysis of legal narratives
– media studies
– multisensory law
– visualisation in legal education

Reviewing Process

Every submission will be reviewed by two or three reviewers and the author will be provided with detailed feedback as well as the list of suggestions for minor improvements to be implemented before it is published. The process adheres strictly to the highest standards of double-blind review.

Submission deadline is September 13, 2013.
Notifications of acceptance shall be sent on October 4, 2013.
Paper camera-ready deadline is October 18, 2013.

Formal Requirements

The individual paper should not exceed 30.000 characters and it can include tables and figures. The Harvard style of referencing is preferred but not strictly required. The paper may be submitted in one of the following formats: .rtf, .odt, .doc, .docx and .tex. The papers should be submitted to EasyChair conference platform: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=argumentation2013

Publication

The accepted papers are going to be published in pre-conference proceedings by Masaryk University Press (Argumentation 2012 and Argumentation 2011 Proceedings). The publisher shall not claim exclusive rights to the papers and authors are encouraged to offer them to the public within the open access regime (e.g. SSRN).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program Chair
Chris Reed, University of Dundee, UK

Program Committee
Leila Amgoud, Inst. de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France
Michal Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Hrafn Asgeirsson, Monash University, Australia
Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
Floris Bex, Univeristy of Groningen, Netherlands
Colette R. Brunschwig, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Katarzyna Budzyńska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Noel Cox, Aberystwyth University, UK
Vytautas Cyras, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Christian Dahlman, Lund University, Sweden
Vanessa C. Duss, University of Luzern, Switzerland
Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG-CNR, Italy
Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Jaap Hage, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Ales Horak, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Marcin Koszowy, University of Bialystok, Poland
Pavel Materna, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Ugo Pagallo, University of Turin, Italy
Tomasz Pietrzykowski, University of Silesia, Katowice
Radim Polcak, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Henry Prakken, Utrecht Uni. and Uni. of Groningen, Netherlands
Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy
Burkhard Schafer, University of Edinburgh, UK
Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
Alessandro Serpe, Unviersity Leonardo da Vinci Chieti, Italy
Martin Skop, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Tomasz Stawecki, University of Warsaw, Poland
Adam Sulikowski, University of Wrocław, Poland
Daniela Tiscornia, ITTIG-CNR, Italy
Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Vern R. Walker, Hofstra University, USA
Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Audrey Yap, University of Victoria, Canada
Tomasz Żurek, Marie Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin, Poland

Organizing Committee

Head of the Organizing Committee
Martin Skop
martin.skop@law.muni.cz
Department of Legal Theory
Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Members of the Organizing Committee
Michal Araszkiewicz
michal.araszkiewicz@uj.edu.pl
Department of Legal Theory
Jagiellonian University, Poland

Marketa Klusonova
marketa.klusonova@law.muni.cz
Department of Legal Theory
Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Matej Myska
matej.myska@law.muni.cz
Institute of Law and Technology
Masaryk University, Czech Republic