RELAW 2012 - Fifth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law (RELAW 2012)

The objective of the RELAW workshop is to foster the discussion related to requirements engineering triggered by any legal regulation or law. The theme this year is "Compliance under Uncertainty". RELAW is a multidisciplinary, one-day workshop that will bring together practitioners and researchers from two domains: Requirements Engineering and Law. Participants from government, industry and academic sectors investigate challenges to ensure that information systems comply with policies and laws. The workshop will probe important issues, including the processes for identifying relevant policies, laws and jurisdictions, aligning laws with system requirements, managing requirements and changes in the law and demonstrating how systems comply with relevant laws through evidence-based mechanisms such as documentation, testing and certification, even in the presence of uncertainty. RELAW will include a track with requirements engineering research and industry papers and a second track with papers from law scholars to address emerging IT challenges in today's regulatory environment.