Legal scholars and practitioners are feeling increasingly overwhelmed with the expanding set of legislation and case law available these days, which is assuming more and more of an international character. For example, European legislation is estimated to be 170,000 pages long, of which over 100,000 pages have been produced in the last ten years. Furthermore, legislation is available in unstructured formats, which makes it difficult for users to cut through the information overload. As the law gets more complex, conflicting, and ever changing, more advanced methodologies are required for analyzing, representing and reasoning on legal knowledge.
The contributions submitted to MIREL 2019 have been peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. The accepted papers, presented here in these Workshop Notes, were accepted based on their quality, relevance to the workshop topic, and their potential to bring forward interesting ideas to be discussed at the workshop.
Thanks to the invaluable and much appreciated contributions of the authors and the Programme Committee, MIREL 2019 provides participants with an opportunity to position their contributions with respect to one another. Hopefully, this will contribute to the development of a truly interdisciplinary research-community around the different aspects and problems of Legal Informatics.