The 26th International Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O 2025) will take place between June 9-12, 2025, at PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil. DG.O conferences are an establised forum for academic discussion in the area of digital government and administrative informatics, and also include specific tracks pertaining to the field of legal informatics.
Important dates for DG.O 2025:
Submission Deadline:
January 24, 2025Conference: June 9-12, 2025 (at PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Full Description of Track 15 Legal Informatics - Foundations and Applications:
(Track Chairs: Peter Parycek, Joao Maurício Adeodato, Diogo Sasdelli)
Legal informatics is
concerned with the digital transformation of law and of the public sector. The
field has two main focusses. On the one hand, it investigates how new
technologies can be applied to directly transform law and public
administration. Classical examples are legal databases, e‑justice, IT-forensics,
and the digitalisation of public services. On the other hand, it investigates
how to create appropriate legal frameworks to regulate new technologies, i.e.,
it includes areas such as data protection law, data governance, and AI
regulation. The track invites contributions not only on practical applications,
but also on the theoretical foundations of legal informatics. Specific interest
areas include the field of privacy (policies, regulations, strategies,
recommendations), models of legal and ethical knowledge (especially with
respect to core concepts such as ‘norms’, ‘arguments’, ‘rules’, ‘cases’, ‘principles’,
‘values’, ‘procedures’), smart contracts, legal interactions of autonomous
agents, digital institutions and both the practice and the foundations (e.g.,
ethical, legal-theoretical) of the various areas of information law. In
particular, the track welcomes contributions focussing on the potential of
legal informatics with respect to social cohesion and the reduction of
inequality.
The track invites scholars, researchers, and
practitioners to submit original contributions related to one or more of the
following topics:
·
Digital
policies, ethics & information law
o
Data
protection law (including non-personal data)
o
IT-law
o
Regulation
of AI
o
Regulation
of digital Platforms
o
Intellectual
property
o
IoT
and law
o
Digital
ethics
o
Algorithms
and the concept of justice
o
Emerging
technologies, democracy, and the rule of law
·
Legal
tech and its foundations and applications
o
Automation
and digitalisation of public services
o
E-Governance
o
Smart
contracts
o
E-justice
o
IT-forensics
o
Cybersecurity
o
Big
data and law
o
Large
language models and legal applications
o
Natural
language processing and law
o
Models
of legal and ethical knowledge and reasoning
o
Models
of legal argumentation
o
Legal
ontologies
o
Deontic
logic and normative systems
