Monica Palmirani, Full professor of Computer Science and
Law at Bologna University, School of Law, Italy. Graduated in Mathematic, Ph.D. in Legal Informatics and IT Law,
teacher of several courses since 2001 on Legal Informatics,
eGovernment, Legal drafting techniques, and Legal XML.
She is member of CIRSFID part of the Alma-AI, one of the main centers of excellence
in Italy and one of the leading centers at the international level
for the area of computer science and law.
She was project manager and coordinator of several European
projects: COMPULAW, INTERLEX, DECODE, ManyLaws, ICT4LAW, Estrella, SEAL, TRIAS on behalf of CIRSFID. From
1996 to 2001 she was responsible of the “European Project
Department” of Gruppo Fromula and coordinated several EU-Project:
BAPTISME; FLUENT; WHALES; APM; LORE; ALIVE; EXPIDE.
She is the Director of Ph.D. International Program Erasmus
Mundus Law, Science and Technology (http://www.last-jd.eu),
coordinator of the eGov module in the Master in the Law of New
technologies, Director of the Summer School Legislative XML
(http://summerschoollex.cirsfid.unibo.it) organized by the
University of Bologna, Ravenna, with the goal of disseminating the
usage of Legal XML in the public agencies, respecting and
guaranteeing the legal principles embedded in the legal document
form. She leads the LEXML.it group inside of a European legal XML
network, she is co-chair of LegalRuleML and LegalDocML OASIS TCs
(2012).
The principal field of research is in Legislative and Legal
Informatics, in particular she is an expert of XML techniques for
modeling legal documents both in structure and legal knowledge
aspects, including normative rules. She is proficient in Legal
Drafting techniques supported by ICT and she manages several public
administration projects (e.g. with the Supreme Court of
Cassation of Italy, Senate of Italy, Authority of Privacy in Italy,
European Parliament, Inter-America Bank for Development, United
Nations) to improve legal quality, to design legal information
system, and to apply point-in-time ICT techniques. She is a member
of the AKOMA NTOSO project managed by the UN/DESA, which aims to
promote XML standard for e-Parliament in Africa. She is also a part
of the technical committee of the standardization process of the
CEN MetaLex Workshop (European XML legal standard) and of the
NormeInRete government initiative for the standardization of legal
documents in Italy. She has contributed to the ontological aspects
of the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format (LKIF-core) and to the
formal representation of legal norms in LKIF-Rules. She is member
of the RuleML Technical Group, and of OASIS, serving in the
LegalXML Member Section . In 2009 she was invited to give a lecture
at Stanford University, School of Law, within an initiative
promoted by CodeX (Stanford Center for Computers and Law, part of
the Stanford Research Program in Law, Science and Technology), in
2009 she was a visiting professor at NICTA – Brisbane, Australia
(August 2009) and in 2010 she was visiting professor in Stanford
University into the CodeX Center (July-August 2010, July-August 2017).
Awards
▪ RuleML2012@Challenge first position
▪ ABA 2013 nomination as one of the most important women in Lega l Informatics sector
▪ Award in the Piedmont Challenge Visual Contest (2013)
▪ Award in the Code4Italy Challenge (2014)
▪ OASIS distinguished member (2015)
▪ Award in the UNGA Challenge (2019)
Editorial membership
▪ Associations | Società Italiana di Filosofia del Diritto (SIFD) | Member (2001)
▪ Associations | Società Italiana di Informatica Giuridica (SIIG) | Member of the Presidential Council
and the Board of Arbitrators (2006)
▪ Member of the journal "Ciberspazio e Diritto" dal 2012
▪ Member of of the AI&LAW Journal (2013)
▪ Associations | Associazione Nazionale Docenti di Informatica Giuridica (ANDIG) | Member (2013)
▪ Associations | Associazione Nazionale degli Operatori e dei Responsabili della Conservazione
digitale (ANORC) | Honorary Member (2013)
▪ Member of the Scientific Committee of the JURIX conference (2014)
▪ Member of scientific committee of AI&Law Journal, Springer (2019)
▪ Member of Diritto e Informatica Journal (2017)
▪ IAAIL executive committee member (2020)
▪ Associate Editor of Science and Engineering Ethics Journal, Springer (2020)
▪ Member of scientific committee of MediaLaw Journal (2020)
