Professor Vern Walker has been elected to Chair the Program Committee for the workshop on “Fundamental Concepts and the Systematization of Law” (FCASL 2011), at the 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX), to be held at the University of Vienna in Austria, 14th-16th December 2011. The workshop is being organized in honor of the jurisprudential work of Hans Kelsen. The focus of the workshop is on applying recent scientific perspectives and methods of thought (in terms of artificial intelligence and law) to clarify the fundamental concepts of law and to help systematize law.