PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • From September 2010: VISITING SCHOLAR at the LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE, Cornell University Law School (funded a postdoctoral grant by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Becas MEC/Fulbright 2010-2012).
  • From September 2002 to September 2010 (on leave): ASSISTANT PROFESSOR at the Law School of the UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA (UAB). PhD thesis: 
  • From 2003 to September 2010: RESEARCHER at the Institute for Law and Technology (IDT), participant in several European and national-funded research projects on legal information representation and management.
  • From July 2008 to October 2008: visiting PhD RESEARCHER at the Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG), funded with predoctoral visiting research grant by AGAUR (BE-DGR-2008-00076).
  • From august 2006 to December 2006: visiting LECTURER at the Law School of the UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO. Legal Theory and two seminars on Bioethics, Law and Society.
  • From July 2004 to August 2004: invited RESEARCHER at the Law School of the UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. Research conducted to conclude Mphil in Public Law and Legal Philosophy (research in English; Welsh and Scottish case law and statutes regarding informed consent).

EDUCATION

  • December 2008: PhD (Excellent "cum laude" and "European Doctorate" mention) in Public Law and Legal Philosophy at the UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA in legal ontologies for the formalisation of Law, entitled: "Modelling Legal Knowledge through Ontologies. OPJK: the Ontology of Professional Judicial Knowledge".
  • From September 2002 to June 2005: Mphil in Public Law and Legal Philosophy at the UAB: First with merits awarded for the dissertation entitled: El consentimiento informado en la prueba del VIH: ¿instrumentalización de la autonomía en función de la tecnología? [Informed consent and HIV testing: is autonomy manipulated by technological advances?]
  • From September 2000 to September 2001: MA in Health Care Ethics and Law by the Law School (Dr. John Harris) of The UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER. The course modules involved Moral Philosophy, Medicine, Law and Society, Gender, Medicine and the Law, Cases from Health Care Practice, Medico-Legal Problems, etc.
  • July 2000: Graduate in Law (degree comprehensive of all legal disciplines) by the UAB, with final year of the degree (1999-2000) at the MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY with Erasmus exchange grant (Introduction to English Law, Conflict of Laws and Environmental Law and Policy).

PARTICIPATION IN FUNDED RESEARCH

  • LINKED LEGAL DATA.  MEC/Fulbright 2010-2012 postdoctoral research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education.
  • NEURONA. Development of an intelligent system to control data protection compliance Funder: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio, Spain (TSI-200100-2008-134), 2008-2010 (AVANZA). Coordinator: S21sec (IDT-IP: Dr. P. Casanovas).
  • ONTOMEDIA. Semantically-enabled platform for online mediation. Funder: (TSI-020501-2008-131/CSO-2008-05536-SOCI), 2008-2010. Coordinator: XimetriX Network Thoughts, S.L. (IDT-IP: Dr. P.Casanovas).
  • Metasearch Project. Construction of a legal semantic search engine with Wolters Kluwer Spain. Funder: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio (Spain), 2007-2009. Coordinator: Dr. P. Casanovas.
  • E-Sentencias (Hardware-software platform to improve generation and management of knowledge and images for justice). Funder: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio (PROFIT).
  • OCJ. Observatory of Judicial Culture. Implementation of IURISERVICE. Funder: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (SEJ2006-10695). PI: Dr. P. Casanovas.
  • Drafting Legislation with Ontology-based Support (DALOS). Funder: European Commission (E-Participation call). Dates: 2007-2008 (18 months). Coordinator: ITTIG (Dr. Daniela Tiscornia).
  • Ethical, social and legal perspectives of converging technologies (NBIC). Funder: Spanish Ministry of Science and Education (MEC). Dates: November 2005-December 2006. PI: Dr. P. Casanovas.
  • Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies. Funder: European Union (VI Program) EU-IST 2003-506826 SEKT. Dates: 01-01-2004 / 31-12-2006. PI: Dr. J. Davies (British Telecom); IP from UAB: Dr. P. Casanovas.

PUBLICATIONS/PROCEEDINGS


2012
  • Joan-Josep Vallbé, Núria Casellas, "Raising Voice or Effectiveness? The Role of e-Government on the Quality of Political Institutions", Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on eGovernment (ECEG 2012), Institute of Public Governance and Management, ESADE, Barcelona, Spain. 14-15 June 2012 [to be published].
  • Núria Casellas, "Linked Legal Data: Improving Access to Regulations", Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2012): Bridging Research and Practice, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, June 4–7, 2012, ACM Proceedings Digital Library [to be published].
2011
2010
  • Marta Poblet, Pompeu Casanovas, José-Manuel López-Cobo and Núria Casellas, "ODR, Ontologies, and Web 2.0", Journal of Universal Computer Science, Vol 17 (4, 2011), pp. 618-634.
  • (Translation) Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen, Manual de Web Semántica, Collección La Razón Áurea, Ed. Comares: Granada, 2010. (Original: Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen, A Semantic Web Primer, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2008.)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Núria Casellas, Sergi Torralba, Mario Reyes, and Pompeu Casanovas"Legal Compliance in an Ontology-based Information System" (poster), proceedings of Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses (EKAW 2010), 11th October-15th October 2010 - Lisbon, Portugal
  • Casellas, N., Vallbé, J.-J., Reyes de los Mozos, M., Casanovas, P., "Ontology-Enhanced Legal Decision-Support Tools", presentation at SubTech 2010, 11th International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice, University of Zaragoza, 1st-3rd of July 2010.
  • Casellas, N., Reyes de los Mozos, M., Casanovas, P., "The use of legal ontologies for legal knowledge management and representation in the NEURONA data protection compliance tool", demo presentation at Subtech 2010, Eleventh International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice, University of Zaragoza - 1st to 3rd July 2010
  • Casellas, N., Nieto, J-E., Meroño, A., Roig, A., Torralba, S., Reyes de los Mozos, M., Casanovas, P."Ontological Semantics for Data Privacy Compliance: the NEURONA Ontology", AAAI Spring Symposium Series Technical Reports (Intelligent Information Privacy Management), Stanford 23rd-25th of March 2010 [to appear].
2009
2008
  • Casellas, N. (2008) Modelling Legal Knowledge through Ontologies. OPJK: the Ontology of Professional Judicial Knowledge. PhD thesis, Faculty of Law, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
  • Casanovas, P.; Sartor, G.; Casellas, N. ; Rubino, N. (eds.) Computable Models of the Law: Languages, Dialogue, Games, Ontologies. LNAI 4884, Springer-Verlag, 2008. ISBN: 978-3-540-85568-2.
  • Casanovas, P.; Sartor, G.; Rubino, R.; Casellas, N. “Computable Models of the Law and ICT: State of the Art and Trends in European Research”. In Casanovas, P.; Sartor, G.; Rubino, R.; Casellas, N. (eds.) Computable Models of the Law: Languages, Dialogue, Games, Ontologies. LNAI 4884, Springer-Verlag, 2008: 1 - 20. ISBN: 978-3-540-85568-2.
  • Casanovas, P.; Huang, Z.; Scholbach, S.; Van Harmelen, F.; Casellas, N. “Dynamic aspects of OPJK Legal Ontology”. In Casanovas, P.; Sartor, G.; Rubino, R.; Casellas, N. (eds.) Computable Models of the Law: Languages, Dialogue, Games, Ontologies. LNAI 4884, Springer-Verlag, 2008: 133 - 129. ISBN: 978-3-540-85568-2.
  • Casellas, N. "Orígenes, desarrollo y problemas actuales de la Bioética: una breve introducción", en Revista Jurídica Universidad de Puerto Rico, vol 76 (2008): 1115-1158. ISSN: 0886-2516 (Latindex).
  • Casanovas, P.; Casellas, N.; Fernández, M.; Benjamins, V.R. “Introducción: Web Semàntica y ontologías jurídicas”. In Casanovas, P.; Benjamins, V.R.; Vallbé, J.J. (eds) Web Semántica y ontologías jurídicas. Aplicaciones para el derecho en la nueva generación de la red. Colección de la Razón Áurea. Serie Investigación n. 2. Ed. Comares, Granada, 2008. (in press)
  • Casanovas, P.; Casellas, N.; Fernández, M.; Benjamins, V.R.; Tempich, C.; Vrandecic, D. “Metodología para la construcción de OPJK”. In Casanovas, P.; Benjamins, V.R.; Vallbé, J.J. (eds) Web Semántica y ontologías jurídicas. Aplicaciones para el derecho en la nueva generación de la red. Colección de la Razón Áurea. Serie Investigación n. 2. Ed. Comares, Granada, 2008. (in press)
  • Casanovas, P.; Casellas, N.; Vallbé, J.J.; Poblet, M.; Ramos, F.; Gorroñogoita, J.; Contreras, J.; Blázquez, M.; Benjamins, V.R. “IURISERVICE II. Desarrollo de la ontología y diseño de la arquitectura”. In Casanovas, P.; Benjamins, V.R.; Vallbé, J.J. (eds) Web Semántica y ontologías jurídicas. Aplicaciones para el derecho en la nueva generación de la red. Colección de la Razón Áurea. Serie Investigación n. 2. Ed. Comares, Granada, 2008. (in press)
  • Poblet, M. ; Vallbé, J. J. ; Casellas, N. ; Casanovas, P. “Judges as IT Users: The Iuriservice Example”. Cerrillo, A.; Fabra, P. (Eds.) E-justice : Using Information Communication Technologies in the Court System. IGI-Global, USA, 2008 : 38 - 56. ISBN: 978-1-59904-998-4.
  • Casanovas, P.; Casellas, N.; Vallbé, J.J. “An ontology-based decision support system for judges”. In Casanovas, P.; Breuker, J.; Klein, M.; Francesconi, E. (eds) “Channeling the legal informational flood. Legal Ontologies and the Semantic Web”. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2008.
2007
  • Gracia, C., Casanovas. P., Carrabina, J., Binefa, X., Teodoro, E., Monton, M. , Casellas, N., Montero, C., Galera, N., Serrano, J., Poblet, M. “Legal Knowledge Acquisition and Multimedia Applications". In Tobias Bürger, Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Christian Eckes, Stavros J. Perantonis, John Pereira, and Vassilis Tzouvaras Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from Multimedia Content (KAMC'07), Genoa, Italy, December 5, 2007, ISSN 1613-0073, CEUR-WS. org/Vol-253, pp:1-15.
  • Casellas, N., Casanovas, P., Vallbé, J.-J., Poblet, M., et al. “Semantic Enhancement for Legal Information Retrieval: Iuriservice Performance”. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL2007), June 4-8, 2007, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, ACM, 2007, pp:49-57
  • Michel Klein, Paulo Quaresma, and Núria Casellas (ed), Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Web technology for Law (SW4Law 2007) of the International conference on AI and Law (ICAIL2007), 8th June, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, 2007.
  • Monton, M., Carrabina, J., Montero, C., Serrano, J., Binefa, X., Garcia, C., Blázquez, M., Contreras, J., Teodoro, E., Casellas, N., Vallbé, J.-J., Poblet, M., Casanovas, P. “Accelerating Semantic Search with Application of Specific Platforms”. In Michel Klein, Paulo Quaresma, and Núria Casellas (ed), Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Web technology for Law (SW4Law 2007) of the International conference on AI and Law (ICAIL2007), 8th June, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, 2007, pp. 47-50
  • Casanovas, P.; Vallbé, J-J.; Casellas, N.; Poblet, M.; Blázquez, M.; Contreras, J.; Benjamins, R.; López-Cobo, J.M. D10.4.1 After Analysis. Implementation of Iuriservice at the Spanish Judicial School. EU-IST Project IST-2003-506826. SEKT (Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies) Deliverable IST, 2006: 128 p.
  • Vallbé, J.-J., Casellas, N., Poblet, M., Casanovas, P., "Iuriservice: ontologies per a la representació del coneixement jurídic" [Iuriservice: ontologies for legal knowledge representation]. Comunication for the I Congrés Català de Filosofia [Catalan Conference on Philosophy]. Institut d’Estudis Catalans. March 2007.
  • Casanovas, P., Casellas, Tempich, C., Vrandecic, D., Benjamins, V.R. “OPJK and DILIGENT: ontology modeling in a distributed environment”. Artificial Intelligence and Law. 10.1007/s10506-007-9036-2. Springer, 2007.
2006
  • Huang, Z., Schlobach, S., Van Harmelen, F., Klein, M., Casellas, N., Casanovas, P. 2006. D3.5.2 (WP3.5) Reasoning with Multi-version Ontologies: Evaluation, EU-IST Project–IST-2003-506826. SEKT (Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies) Deliverable IST, 2006.
  • Casanovas, P., Poblet, M., Casellas, N., Vallbé, J. Benjamins, V.R., Contreras, J., Peña, R., Blázquez, M. “Semantic Web: a Legal Case Study”. Davis, J, Studer, P, Warren, P. (Ed.) Semantic Web Technologies. Ed. John Wiley & Sons, England, 2006, pp. 259-28.
  • Casellas, N., Jakulin, A., Vallbe, J.J., Casanovas, P. “Acquiring an Ontology from the Text. A Legal Case Study”. The 19th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE'06). Annecy (FRANCE), 27-30 juny 2006. Proceedings publicats per Springer-Verlag.
  • Casanovas, P, Casellas, N., Tempich, C., Vrandecic, D., Benjamins, R. “OPJK and DILIGENT: Modelling Methodology in a Distributed Environment”. P. Casanovas et al. (Eds.) The regulation of electronic social systems. Law and the Semantic Web. B-4 Workshop on AI and Law. IVR ´05. Granada, 24-29 May. Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM, Mèxic, 2006 (in press).
2005
2004
  • Casanovas, P.; Poblet, M.; Casellas, N.; Vallbé, J. J., Ramos, F.; Benjamins, V.R.; Blázquez, M.; Contreras, J.; Gorroñogoitia, J. 2004. D10.2.1. Legal Scenario. OPL Ontology and Architecture (200 p.), EU-IST Project–IST-2003-506826. SEKT (Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies) Deliverable IST.

WORKSHOPS and CONFERENCES

  • Co-chair Track 5: Data Organization and Legal Informatics at Law Via the Internet 2012 conference.
  • Program Committee member of the KEOD 2012, KEOD 2011 and KEOD 2010 conferences, International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, part of the International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.
  • Program Committee member of the AICOL 2011 and AICOL II (JURIX 2009) workshops, AI approaches to the complexity of legal systems.
  • LOAIT, Legal Ontologeis and Artificial Intelligence Techniques workshops: LOAIT 2010 (program committee member) @ DEON 2010, LOAIT 2009 (program chair) @ ICAIL (International Conference in Artificial Intelligence and Law), Barcelona, Spain, June 8-12, 2009.
  • Program Committee member of the Ontocontent 2009 workshop, International Workshop on Ontology Content.
  • SW4Law "Workshop on Semantic Web technology for Law". Workshop at ICAIL 2007, the International Conference on AI and Law, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, June 8 2007.
  • VII Cicle Aranguren: "NBIC. Political and Social effects on the convergence of technologies". 20th October – 24th November 2005 (10 sessions).

AWARDS, AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE

  • Susquehanna International Group award at Cornell BOOM 2012 for the Linked Legal Data poster presentation.
  • Award and invitation to the 10th Anniversary Doing Business Conference (Fall 2012), co-sponsored by the World Bank and the Center for Business and Public Policy at Georgetown University, at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
  • MEC/Fulbright 2010-2012 postdoctoral research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education September 2010–September 2012.
  • Mention of European Doctor, 2008.
  • Member of the Editorial board of Springer's Law, Governance and Technology Series, the IDT Series and the La Razón Áurea collection.
  • Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the International Association of Artificial Intelligence and Law.
  • Reviewer of UAB master program proposals (2009-2012).
  • Member (2009-2010) of the Comissió d'Ètica en l'Experimentació Animal i Humana (Animal and Human Research Ethics Committee) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
  • Elected member of the Claustre (senate) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since May 2004, elected member of the Consell de Govern (governing council) since September 2004 up to September 2010, and member of the Comissió d'Investigació (research committee of the governing body) (2005-2009).
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