• Context of the Book.- Law and the Semantic Web, an Introduction.- Introduction: Legal Informatics and the Conceptions of the Law.- Statistical Study of Judicial Practices.- Theoretical Papers: Legal Ontologies and Methodologies.- Use and Reuse of Legal Ontologies in Knowledge Engineering and Information Management.- Types and Roles of Legal Ontologies.- CAUSATI O NT : Modeling Causation in AI&Law.- A Constructive Framework for Legal Ontologies.- On the Ontological Status of Norms.- Building Legal Ontologies with METHONTOLOGY and WebODE.- Institutional Pragmatics and Legal Ontology Limits of the Descriptive Approach of Texts.- Practice Papers: Information Retrieval and Applications.- Using NLP Techniques to Identify Legal Ontology Components: Concepts and Relations.- A Methodology to Create Legal Ontologies in a Logic Programming Information Retrieval System.- Iuriservice: An Intelligent Frequently Asked Questions System to Assist Newly Appointed Judges.- NetCase: An Intelligent Systemto Assist Legal Services Providers in Transnational Legal Networks.- No Model Behaviour: Ontologies for Fraud Detection.

From the reviews: "This book is about the use of Semantic Web technologies for Legal Knowledge Management ... . I think the book is published timely to meet the increasing interest in the context of eGovernment. ... The contributions show a good mix of contributions from different European countries ... . the book contains a number of interesting contributions ... . If you are looking for an overview of the work going on in the domain of legal ontologies, this book is a good choice ... ." (Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Vol. 14, 2006)

• Context of the Book.- Law and the Semantic Web, an Introduction.- Introduction: Legal Informatics and the Conceptions of the Law.- Statistical Study of Judicial Practices.- Theoretical Papers: Legal Ontologies and Methodologies.- Use and Reuse of Legal Ontologies in Knowledge Engineering and Information Management.- Types and Roles of Legal Ontologies.- CAUSATI O NT : Modeling Causation in AI&Law.- A Constructive Framework for Legal Ontologies.- On the Ontological Status of Norms.- Building Legal Ontologies with METHONTOLOGY and WebODE.- Institutional Pragmatics and Legal Ontology Limits of the Descriptive Approach of Texts.- Practice Papers: Information Retrieval and Applications.- Using NLP Techniques to Identify Legal Ontology Components: Concepts and Relations.- A Methodology to Create Legal Ontologies in a Logic Programming Information Retrieval System.- Iuriservice: An Intelligent Frequently Asked Questions System to Assist Newly Appointed Judges.- NetCase: An Intelligent Systemto Assist Legal Services Providers in Transnational Legal Networks.- No Model Behaviour: Ontologies for Fraud Detection.

From the reviews: "This book is about the use of Semantic Web technologies for Legal Knowledge Management ... . I think the book is published timely to meet the increasing interest in the context of eGovernment. ... The contributions show a good mix of contributions from different European countries ... . the book contains a number of interesting contributions ... . If you are looking for an overview of the work going on in the domain of legal ontologies, this book is a good choice ... ." (Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Vol. 14, 2006)

• Context of the Book.- Law and the Semantic Web, an Introduction.- Introduction: Legal Informatics and the Conceptions of the Law.- Statistical Study of Judicial Practices.- Theoretical Papers: Legal Ontologies and Methodologies.- Use and Reuse of Legal Ontologies in Knowledge Engineering and Information Management.- Types and Roles of Legal Ontologies.- CAUSATI O NT : Modeling Causation in AI&Law.- A Constructive Framework for Legal Ontologies.- On the Ontological Status of Norms.- Building Legal Ontologies with METHONTOLOGY and WebODE.- Institutional Pragmatics and Legal Ontology Limits of the Descriptive Approach of Texts.- Practice Papers: Information Retrieval and Applications.- Using NLP Techniques to Identify Legal Ontology Components: Concepts and Relations.- A Methodology to Create Legal Ontologies in a Logic Programming Information Retrieval System.- Iuriservice: An Intelligent Frequently Asked Questions System to Assist Newly Appointed Judges.- NetCase: An Intelligent Systemto Assist Legal Services Providers in Transnational Legal Networks.- No Model Behaviour: Ontologies for Fraud Detection.

From the reviews: "This book is about the use of Semantic Web technologies for Legal Knowledge Management ... . I think the book is published timely to meet the increasing interest in the context of eGovernment. ... The contributions show a good mix of contributions from different European countries ... . the book contains a number of interesting contributions ... . If you are looking for an overview of the work going on in the domain of legal ontologies, this book is a good choice ... ." (Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Vol. 14, 2006)