Section Law and Informatics

Department of Metajuridica, Faculty of Law, Universiteit Maastricht

Postal address: P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Visiting address: Oud Gouvernement, Bouillonstraat 1-3, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 43 3883020 (Secretariat of the Department of Metajuridica)
Fax: +31 43 3884912

The topic of research at the Section Law and Informatics is legal information technology,
with special focus on

  • artificial intelligence and law,
  • legal argumentation,
  • defeasible argumentation,
  • logic and law,
  • automated argument assistance,
  • legal ontology,
  • computational dialectics, and
  • formal legal theory.

People

Members of the section
  • Dr. J.C. Hage (Jaap)
  • Ir. A.C. Roth (Bram)
  • Dr. B. Verheij (Bart)

    Former members of the section
  • Dr.mr. A.R. Lodder (Arno)

    People at Edit's ICT
  • Dr. G.P.J. Span (Georges)
  • Mr. M. Weerts (Marc)

    • Projects

    Past events

    • Workshop Dialogisch redeneren in het recht (Dialogical reasoning in the law; June 27, 1994)
    • The 8th International Conference on Legal Knowledge-Based Systems (JURIX '95) (November 30 and December 1, 1995)
    • Workshop Redeneren naar analogie in het recht (Reasoning by analogy in the law; August 30, 1996)
    • The Maastricht Argument Day, an international workshop on argument (December 4, 1996)
    • Views on legal argumentation - an international workshop (June 4, 1998)


    Courses

    Books, dissertations

    Organisations

    • JURIX: the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems
    • IAAIL: the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law
    • BNVKI: the Belgium-Netherlands Society for Artificial Intelligence
    Bart Verheij, b.verheij at ai dot rug dot nl