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When Technology Disrupts Law: How Can Intellectual Property, Internet, and Biolaw Adapt – Berkeley, CA

uwlegalscholarship — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:44:39 +0000

The 2012 AALS Mid-Year Meeting will feature a workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: How Can Intellectual Property, Internet, and Biolaw Adapt? The workshop will be held on June 10 – 12, 2012 in Berkeley, California. Registration information is available here.

Conference on Internet Search and Innovation – Chicago, IL

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:14:07 +0000

The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth presents the Third Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation to be held at Northwestern University School of Law, June 21-22, 2012. An agenda for the conference can be found here. Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. To receive an invitation, please send a message with your name, affiliation, and full contact information to Derek Gundersen at:
d-gundersen@law.northwestern.edu.
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Conference on Internet Search and Innovation – Chicago, IL

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:00:47 +0000

The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth presents the Third Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation to be held at Northwestern University School of Law, June 21-22, 2012.

The goal of this conference is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern’s own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high-quality research relevant to Internet search and innovation. The conference will cover academic work on Internet search and innovation, and the discussion will examine related public policy issues in antitrust, regulation, and intellectual property.

Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. To receive an invitation, please send a message with your name, affiliation, and full contact information to Derek Gundersen at:d-gundersen[@]law.northwestern.edu. Please indicate if you wish to be considered as a discussant. im

Call for Papers: 3rd Annual International Conference on Network Technologies and Communications (NTC 2012) – Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:05:35 +0000

The 3rd Annual International Conference on Network Technologies and Communications (NTC 2012) has issued a Call for Papers for the upcoming conference, scheduled for October 22nd – 23rd, 2012 at Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore.

The full paper submission DEADLINE is June 22nd, 2012. For additional information regarding the conference and notification deadlines, please visit the conference website. mmb

AALS Midyear: Torts, Environment, Disaster, Technology, IP, Bio Law – Berkeley, CA

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:30:25 +0000

AALS offers two workshops at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley:

Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster, June 8-10, 2012.
Workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: How Do IP, Internet and Bio Law Adapt?, June 10-12, 2012.

Law Via the Internet – Ithaca, NY

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:30:39 +0000

The Legal Information Institute (Cornell University Law School) presents LVI 2012, Law Via the Internet Conference, Oct. 7-9, 2012.

The deadline for submitting presentation proposals or paper abstracts was April 2, 2012. mw

Law Via the Internet – Ithaca, NY

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:30:34 +0000

Cornell University Law School is hosting a conference October 7-9, 2012, entitled Law Via the Internet. Each day will begin with a keynote address. Participants will then attend shorter sessions in five themed tracks: The Promise and Reality of e-Participation, The Business of (Open) Legal Publishing, Free Law and Government Policy, Application Development for Open Access and Engagement, and Data Organization and Legal Informatics.

Calls for presentations and papers are due April 2, 2012, and should relate to one of the themed tracks. im

Computer Science and Information Systems – Athens, Greece

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:14:03 +0000

Submit a proposal for presentation at the 8th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, May 21-24 2012, in Athens, Greece, organized by the Computer Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). Papers (in English) will be published in a peer-reviewed publication and can cover all areas of Information and Communications Technologies ICT.

Please send an abstract of about 300 words, via e-mail (atiner[@]atiner.gr), before April 2, 2012. Please use the abstract submitting form. If you want to participate without presenting a paper (i.e., chair a session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution), please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos (gtp[@]atiner.gr), President, ATINER. im

Conference on Competition, Search, and Social Media – Washington D.C.

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:31:35 +0000

The Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics Studies presents its Second Annual Conference on Competition, Search, and Social Media to be held at George Mason University School of Law, Wednesday, May 16th, 2012.

Search and social media are increasingly important parts of the economy. They are also relatively young industries. Understanding the technology and economics of search and social networks is necessary to facilitate sensible policies in this area. The Second Annual Conference on Competition, Search, and Social Media seeks to address these issues by inviting experts in the field to present their views and engage in a vibrant discussion about competition policy in these dynamic industries.

REGISTRATION: You must pre-register for this event. To register, please send a message with your name, affiliation, and full contact information to: Jeff Smith, Chief of Staff – Law & Economics Center,jsmithQ@gmu.edu

PANEL 1: Antitrust and Platform Competition in Search and Social Media
- This panel will discuss issues involving market definition, network effects, and dynamic considerations when analyzing search and social media platform competition.

PANEL 2: Search, Duties to Deal, and Essential Facilities
- This panel will explore the extent to which search engines should be viewed as utilities, and whether they may have a legal duty to assist their rivals under the essential facilities doctrine as it survives after Trinko and Linkline.

PANEL 3: The Interface Between Privacy and Competitive Analysis in Search and Social Media
- This panel will explore the extent to which privacy should be germane to antitrust analysis of online search and social networks, including whether privacy can be viewed as a dimension of quality and the extent to which privacy regulation may affect competition.

PANEL 4: Are There Workable Remedies for “Search Engine Bias”?
- This panel will discuss economic, legal (including First Amendment), and practical issues surrounding potential remedies to allegedly “biased” search engine results. im

Mobile and Location Privacy – New York, NY

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:45:33 +0000

The New York University Information Law Institute and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy present the NYU/Princeton Conference on Mobile and Location Privacy: A Technology and Policy Dialog April 13, 2012.

If you are interested in attending, please fill out this form. Space is limited. mw