Argumentation 2012 - International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law

The conference consists of four workshops/streams, each specialized in a specific and unique method of studying legal argumentation:

Formal Methods in Legal Reasoning
Law and Literature
Law and Language
Visualization of Law
Papers are invited on the following topics:

Formal and quantitative models of legal reasoning
Logical tools in designing legal arguments
Argumentation schemes, models of legal inference
Mathematical and computational tools for modelling arguments and reasoning
Evidence, burdens of persuasion and proof
Interpretation of literature in jurisprudence
Artistic description of contemporary law
Exploitation of literature in legal education
Literature in legal argumentation
Literature in rationalization of law
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
Literary analysis of law
Natural language
Analysis of legal narratives
Rhetorical devices in legal reasoning
Media studies
Multisensory law
Visualisation in legal education
Visualising legal reasoning
Argument mapping
Structuring the complexity of law via visualisation
Visual literacy in law
Pictorial law

http://argumentation2012.wordpress.com/call-for-pa...