LexisNexis Best Paper Award 2020

General Information

IRIS awards the LexisNexis Best Paper Award for outstanding conference contributions to promote legal informatics.

Criteria for evaluation are scientific relevance, topicality, originality, methodology, applicability as well as structure and presentation of the work. The length of the paper should be 8 pages; minor deviations are permitted (IRIS2017 print format template).

The Best Paper Award is endowed by LexisNexis with Euro 750; the 2nd winner receives Euro 500 and the 3rd winner Euro 250 in cash.

The LexisNexis Best Paper Award will be presented by a jury appointed by the IRIS Programme Directors and handed over by the Programme Chair and the sponsor LexisNexis at a ceremony during IRIS2020. The decision will be made without recourse to the courts. No prizes can be awarded if no suitable works have been submitted.

If it proves necessary, the jury is entitled to call in other experts. The names of the jurors and any other experts will be announced at the award ceremony.

The submitted paper must be submitted as a conference paper to IRIS2019 by 31 October 2019. Only submissions with complete documentation can be considered.

Jury

Assoz.-Prof. Dr. Christian Bergauer
Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Fill
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Mader
ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dietmar Jahnel
Assoz.-Prof. DI Mag. Dr. Michael Sonntag
ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. DDr. Erich Schweighofer


Information:

ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. DDr. Erich Schweighofer
Working Group Rechtsinformatik, Institute for European Law, International Law and Comparative Law, University of Vienna
Schottenbastei 10-16/2/5, 1010 Wien, Austria, Tel. +43 1 4277 35305, Fax +43 1 4277 9353

Winner

Winner and 1st Price

Tomer Libal and Alexander Steen, NAI: Towards Transparent and Usable Semi-Automated Legal Analysis

Winner and 2nd Price

Gerhard Seuchter, Sabine Proßnegg, Veronika Beimrohr and Dawn Branley-Bell, The Crux of Cookies Consent: A Legal and Technical Analysis of Shortcomings of Cookie Policies in the Age of the GDPR

Winner and 3rd Price

Jonas Pfister, Verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung am Beispiel des “AMS-Algorithmus“

TOP-10-Papers

  1. Christian K. Bosse, Aljoscha Dietrich, Patricia Kelbert, Hagen Küchler, Hartmut Schmitt, Jan Tolsdorf and Andreas Weßner, Beschäftigtendatenschutz: Rechtliche Anforderungen und technische Lösungskonzepte
  2. Federico Costantini, Fausto Galvan, Sebastiano Battiato and Marco Alvise De Stefani, A Case Study for an “Accountable» IOT Forensics”
  3. Felix Gantner, KI und Recht oder das Vertrauensdilemma
  4. Philip Glass, Eine Skizze zur rechtlichen Verbindlichkeit “ethischer” KI-Prinzipien
  5. Stefan Hessel, Lena Leffer and Karin Potel, Die Inanspruchnahme des Auftragsverarbeiters durch die Aufsichtsbehörde – Der datenschutzrechtliche Satz des Pythagoras
  6. Jan Hospes, Walter Hötzendorfer, Markus Kastelitz and Christof Tschohl, Kryptowährungen im Finanzmarktrecht und grundrechtliche Grenzen von Verboten
  7. Tomer Libal and Alexander Steen, NAI: Towards Transparent and Usable Semi-Automated Legal Analysis
  8. Jochen Krüger, Stephanie Vogelgesang and Lena-Marie Adam, Verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung, gerichtliche Entscheidungen und der Gedanke des fairen Verfahrens
  9. Jonas Pfister, Verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung am Beispiel des “AMS-Algorithmus“
  10. Gerhard Seuchter, Sabine Proßnegg, Veronika Beimrohr and Dawn Branley-Bell, The Crux of Cookies Consent: A Legal and Technical Analysis of Shortcomings of Cookie Policies in the Age of the GDPR