Summer School on LegalXML Standards, Legal Analytics and AI

The legal world is evolving at breakneck speed, and LEX2025 is your key to staying ahead of the curve. Our immersive blended learning program equips you with the fluency you need to master the language of legal technology. From XML standards to semantic web applications, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills to navigate the complex world of legal data management with confidence. Join LEX2025 and become a legal language leader!

LEX2025 will be released in blended modality: in presence for 25 sites and online (max 50).

Full programme

Timetable: 9.00-19.00

1st Sept. 2025

Introductive overview of XML

• Legal sources on the web: rationale, benefits, principles
• XML tutorial: Markup languages and web technologies
• Practice section: legal markup in Akoma Ntoso

2nd Sept. 2025

Introductive overview of URI, RDF and OWL

• Naming Convention of the legal resources
• Metadata and RDF foundations
• Structuring legislative documents with XML standards
• Structural markup and legal metadata
• Practice section: legal markup in Akoma Ntoso

3th Sept. 2025

Structure, naming, processes in the legal domain

• Legislative traditions and drafting rules: pre-requirement of the legislative document management
• Naming legislative resource
• Normative references: structuring and naming
• Modelling the legislative process and the changes in legal sources
• Practice section: legal markup in Akoma Ntoso

4th Sept. 2025

Semantic Web for the law

• Ontology basic elements and connection with in Akoma Ntoso
• Pattern in ontology design
• Practice section: designing an ontology
• Ontology design: language, models and good practices
• Linguistic ontologies
• Legal ontologies
• NLP techniques for legal knowledge extraction
• Practice section: legal markup in Akoma Ntoso

5th Sept. 2025

Legal Knowledge Management

• Legal Knowledge Modelling
• Legal Knowledge Representation
• Argumentation and Legal Reasoning
• Practice section: legal markup in Akoma Ntoso

6th Sept. 2026

Full programme of the seminar

• Invited Speakers
• Presentation of the projects by the student
• Assessment and evaluation Project presentation (from the students).
• Award Ceremony

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