Institut de Dret i Tecnologia

Call for candidates for Junior researcher vacancy

Thursday, 22 December 2011 17:19

The Centre for Social Studies (CES) – Associate Laboratory - of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) (www.ces.uc.pt) is offering a Junior Researcher position within the project “Menu for Justice - Towards an European Curriculum Studiorum on Judicial Studies” (156171-LLP-1-2009-1-IT-Erasmus ENWA), funded by the European Commission and coordinated by University of Bologna (Italy).

Deadline for applications: December 27th, 2011

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Application procedure for the Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D.) Degree in Law, Science and Technology is now open

Thursday, 01 December 2011 17:38

Want to be part of the excellent ERASMUS MUNDUS DOCTORAL Program? Want to earn a joint Ph.D. title awarded by three European universities? Want to join the new interdisciplinary program in Law, Science and Technology? Want to acquire cutting-edge skills with which to compete on a surer footing in the information society? Don’t miss the deadline for applying for the Joint international Doctoral Degree in Law, Science, and Technology.

Monday, 19 December 2011 19:02

On December 6th, Meritxell Fernández successfully defended her PhD Thesis "User-generated knowledge through legal ontologies: how to bring the law into the Semantic Web 2.0", at the European University Institute of Florence. The thesis studies the impact of including different textual genres as sources for knowledge acquisition in legal ontology engineering. Results show a correspondence between discourse type and their input for the construction of the ontology. Whereas normative sources mostly contribute to the creation of the most general classes of the domain ontology, case descriptions provide subclasses and instances (in the form of named entities).