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Vern Walker on Program Committee for Semantic Processing of Legal Texts

February 6th, 2012
Professor Vern Walker is on the Program Committee for the fourth Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts, to be held in Istanbul on 27 May 2012. The main goals of the workshop and associated events are to provide an overview of the state-of-the-ar… more »

Vern R. Walker Presents at JURIX 2011 in Vienna, Austria

January 11th, 2012
Vern R. Walker presented a paper at the peer-reviewed workshop on Fundamental Concepts and the Systematization of Law, part of the JURIX 2011 conference in Vienna, Austria, on 14-16 December 2011. The presentation was entitled “Meaning, Logic, and the Sy… more »

Vern R. Walker Article on Artificial Intelligence and Law Published

January 11th, 2012
Vern R. Walker, along with co-authors Nathaniel Carie, Courtney C. DeWitt and Eric Lesh, has published the article “A framework for the extraction and modeling of fact-finding reasoning from legal decisions: lessons from the Vaccine/Injury Project Corpus… more »

Professor Vern R. Walker Chairs International Program Committee

November 11th, 2011
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 h… more »

LLT Lab’s First Article Accepted for Publication in Peer-Reviewed Journal

August 11th, 2011
Hofstra Law’s Research Laboratory for Law, Logic and Technology (LLT Lab) has had its first article accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal:  “A framework for the extraction and modeling of fact-finding reasoning from legal decisions: Lessons… more »

Professor Vern Walker Team-Teaches Health Care Courses in Pisa, Italy

May 27th, 2011
Professor Vern Walker is team-teaching, with Professor Giovanni Comandé of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy, two courses in connection with the Hofstra international law program in Pisa, Italy, May 28 – June 11, 2011. The courses are Compara… more »

Professor Vern Walker Joins the Program Committee for Argumentation 2011 Conference

May 2nd, 2011
Professor Vern Walker has joined the Program Committee for Argumentation 2011, an International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law, which will be held at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, on October 7, 2011. The emphasis… more »

Professor Vern Walker Publishes Articles in Opinio Juris in Comparatione and Hofstra Horizons Magazine

January 5th, 2011
Professor Vern Walker published a peer-reviewed article entitled Designing Factfinding for Cross-Border Healthcare, in 3 Opinio Juris in Comparatione 1 (Dec. 2009). The article discusses a critical problem in providing appropriate compensation for medica… more »

Professor Vern Walker Develops Innovative Course on Administrative Health Law and Team-Teaches Innovative Courses in Pisa, Italy

January 5th, 2011
Professor Vern Walker has developed an innovative course entitled Administrative Health Law, and he offered it for the first time in the spring semester of 2009. The course studies the administrative practice and procedure associated with decision making… more »

Professor Vern Walker Presents at Hofstra Law ‘s Donor Appreciation Dinner, Public Health Conference and Will Present at International Conference in Italy; Professor Walker Also Joins Advisory Board of the EJRR

January 5th, 2011
Professor Vern Walker was invited to make a presentation at Hofstra Law School’s Donor Appreciation and Scholarship Dinner, held at Hofstra University on 11 November 2010. His presentation described the work of Hofstra Law School’s Research Laboratory fo… more »