Regional Institutions for Innovation and Productivity - Seattle
The University of Washington School of Law and the UW’s Economic Policy Research Center present Regional Institutions for Innovation and Productivity April 9, 2010. mw
The University of Washington School of Law and the UW’s Economic Policy Research Center present Regional Institutions for Innovation and Productivity April 9, 2010. mw
CYBERLAWS 2010: The First International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society will explore issues including electronic accessibility to legal information, privacy rights in cyberspace, and internet fraud. The conference will take place February 10 - 15, 2010 in St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. jv
The International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society will be held at the Free University Berlin, Germany on January 15-17, 2010. The cross-disciplinary scope of this conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on information and communications technologies. Submissions of papers (a title and short abstract) are due on 13 August 2009. jv
The Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) is an annual law journal published by the Law and Technology Committee of the Student Bar Association, at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. IJLT is the first and only law journal in India specifically devoted to the field of technology law. The previous issues of IJLT have featured articles by distinguished authors such as Yochai Benkler, Donald S. Chisum, Raymond T. Nimmer, John Frow, Jonathan Zittrain, Lawrence Liang and Shamnad Basheer.
The submissions to the Journal are selected for publication on the basis of a peer-review mechanism conducted through an external Article Review Board consisting of academicians and experts in the field of technology law. The Journal is edited by an Editorial Board consisting of students from the National Law School of India University selected on an annual basis through a selection process that tests them on their editing skills and knowledge in the concerned areas of law.
The Journal accepts academic submissions in the form of articles, notes, comments or book reviews on a host of legal issues regarding the interface between law and technology, including e-commerce, cyber crime, biotechnology, bioethics, competition law, outsourcing, intellectual property, related public policy, and law and society issues posed by new technology. The Journal is also oriented towards publishing academic work that considers the aforementioned is sues from a comparative perspective and/or the perspective of the developing world.
The Editorial Board invites submissions for Volume No. 6 of 2010. The Journal follows a rolling submissions policy and the deadline for the forthcoming volume is 15 December 2009. The submissions received after this date shall be considered for the next volume. The submissions must relate to any of the broad themes mentioned above or any other law and technology-related theme.
The full call for papers is on IJLT’s website. mw
Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics offers a post-doctoral fellowship to help emerging young scholars produce top-rate work in our shared fields.
The 2010-2012 post-graduate Academic Fellowship Program provides substantial full-time support for two years to candidates already holding a graduate degree in law or another allied field aiming to begin an academic career in the areas covered by the Center. The application period for the post-graduate Academic Fellowship Program will be from September 1, 2009, through November 15, 2009, and awardees will be notified on a rolling basis. For more information and the complete call for applications please consult www.law.harvard.edu/programs/petrie-flom.
This summer four Brown International Advanced Research Institutes
will be held at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Each Institute is designed as a residential, intensive two-week long workshop, organized as a mix of lectures, round tables, group work, field trips and social interactions. Each will be led by a team of recognized scholars in the field, who have invited world-renowned lecturers and speakers to join and participate in the Institute’s formal and informal activities. During the Institute participants will be given the opportunity to share and present their work, and will have access to Brown University’s world class research facilities and resources.
The institutes have been accepting applications for a couple of months, but the website does not indicate a closed date.
The four topics are:
A fifth institute, The Genome and the Computational Sciences: The Next Paradigms, was originally scheduled for May 10-16, 2009, but has been postponed to 2010.
The International Association of IT Lawyers (IAITL) will hold the Third International Conference on International Law and Trade in Sliema, Malta on November 3-5, 2009. The conference is an opportunity for academics, practitioners and consultants to come together, exchange ideas, and discuss emerging issues in IT law and the emerging technological environment.
For full details, please see the conference website.
The International Association of IT Lawyers (IAITL) will hold the 4th International Conference on legal, security and privacy issues in information technology law in Sliema, Malta on November 3-5, 2009. The Conference is an opportunity for academics, practitioners and consultants to come together, exchange ideas, and discuss emerging issues in IT law and the emerging technological environment.
For full details, please see the conference website.
The International Association of IT Lawyers (IAITL) invites submission of the papers for presentation at the 4th International Conference on legal, security and privacy issues in information technology law, to be held in Sliema, Malta on November 3-5, 2009. The Conference is an opportunity for academics, practitioners and consultants to come together, exchange ideas, and discuss emerging issues in IT law and the emerging technological environment.
The conference committee is seeking submission of papers for oral presentations; both academic, peer reviewed papers and presentations based on short abstract and non-academic papers. Full research papers must be submitted by September 20, 2009. Abstract presentations may be submitted by October 15.
For complete submission guidelines, suggested topics, and forms, please visit the call for papers page on the conference website.
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (NYU Law), Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? A Test of the Informed Minority Hypothesis Using Clickstream Data
Nina Tarr (Illinois College of Law), Law of Lawyering and Managing an Internal Law School Clinic
Wendy Gordon (Boston Law), Computer Technology, Moral Philosophy, and Copyright: The Grokster Case
Arti Rai (Duke Law), The Promise (and Limits) of Facially Neutral Patent Standards
R. Owen Williams (NYU Law), An Impartial Jury of the State”—A Flash of Nationalism in 1880
Sionaidh Douglas Scott (Oxford Law)
Jeff A. Redding (St. Louis Law), Dignity, Legal Pluralism, and Same-Sex Marriage
Scott Hershovitz (Michigan Law), Harry Potter and the Purpose of Tort Law
The Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology (LST), its Center for E-Commerce, and the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsels (ACC) will conduct the Sixth Annual E-Commerce Best Practices Conference on June 12, 2009, on the Stanford University campus. This year’s program will once again cover a wide array of current issues facing the e-commerce industry and will feature a roundtable of general counsels from leading ecommerce companies.
Full information and online registration is available at the conference website.
The AALS Section on Law and Computers invites you to submit a request to present on the topic of “Law and Wikis” at the Section’s session at the 2010 AALS Annual Meeting, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 6-10, 2010.
This panel will explore the interaction between law and wiki technologies, including Wikipedia. Example topics might include:
Selected speakers must submit a paper to AALS prior to the Annual Meeting for posting to the AALS website; those papers may be accepted for publication in other venues so long as the paper is not published before the Annual Meeting. The Section hopes to place the group of selected speakers’ papers in a to-be-designated law journal. Selected speakers must bear their own travel and conference registration expenses.
How to Apply: Please email your presentation proposal to the section chair, Professor Eric Goldman (egoldman@gmail.com), Santa Clara University School of Law, no later than April 6, 2009, noon Pacific time. Proposals should include name, professional title, professional affiliation(s), contact information, presentation title, short abstract (less than 500 words please), estimated length of the paper, and (if applicable) any information about the paper’s publication status. Abstracts will be reviewed by a working group of the AALS Law & Computers Section, and selected speakers will be contacted no later than April 25, 2009.
The Innovation & Regulation Chair at the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris and the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP) are pleased to announce their first joint call for interdisciplinary papers in occasion of the Workshop on Interoperability taking place on June 23-24, 2009 in Paris, France.
We invite students, scholars, policy-makers, technologists, practitioners and industry representatives to submit papers on interoperability related issues, analyzed from a legal, economic and/or technological perspective.
Deadline for writing competition: May 15th, 2009
Deadline for Journal publication: September 15th, 2009
Deadline for long abstracts (submissions not entered in writing competition): July 15, 2009 Jump to full post
Fordham Law hosts Law & Information Society Symposium: Intermediaries in the Information Society March 27, 2009.
Georgetown Law Library and Georgetown Law host The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship: A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley, July 25, 2009.
The time to debate the role of blogs in legal scholarship has passed. As we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century, one of our oldest and most conservative disciplines has clearly embraced the era of electronic publishing. Blogging has indeed transformed legal scholarship. Now it’s time to move the dialogue forward.
The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship is a symposium that brings together academic bloggers, law librarians, and experts in preservation to tackle the bigger, more imperative challenges that will influence legal scholarship and democratic access to legal information for generations to come.
We must determine how to prioritize, collect, archive, preserve, and ensure reliable long-term access to the burgeoning amount of legal scholarship being published through new, informal channels on the Web.
The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship aims to accomplish this objective through non-conventional means. This symposium is an active, idea-based exchange inviting the participation and contribution of attendees alongside that of expert presenters and panelists.
This unique symposium will seek answers to the questions:
1. How can quality academic scholarship reliably be discovered?
2. How can future researchers be assured of perpetual access to the information currently available in blogs?
3. How can any researcher be confident that documents posted to blogs are genuine?The symposium will include a working group break-out session to create a uniform standard for preservation of blogs, a document to be shared by bloggers and librarians alike.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law hold a Town Hall on Digital Rights Management on March 25, 2009.
The 17th Annual IP Law and Policy Conference hosted by Fordham University will be held in Cambridge, England on Wednesday, April 15th and Thursday, April 16th, 2009, with another exceptional roster of participants and comprehensive review and analysis of today’s cutting-edge issues in intellectual property law.
The Journal of Air Law & Commerce (JALC) is currently accepting submissions on aviation- and space-related topics for publication in an upcoming volume of the Journal.
The William and Mary Law Review presents a symposium, The Boundaries of Intellectual Property, on February 6-7, 2009. This symposium addresses the question of the proper goals of IP law and whether the scope of our current system aligns with those goals.
As the scope of intellectual property law continues to expand, courts and scholars are increasingly confronting the question of the law’s proper boundaries. Is it appropriate, for example, for content owners to use copyright law to silence unflattering speech? Are countries’ trademark laws, which have historically been geographically limited, now essentially global trademark laws given the use of marks over the Internet? Is it consistent with the goals of patent law for the U.S. government, through the Patent and Trademark Office, to define the boundaries of what is patentable based on moral or other non-innovation-related criteria? Although such questions have been the topic of debate in the past, there has not yet been an attempt to take a systemic, unifying approach to the question of boundaries in IP law. This symposium will provide the opportunity for participants to do just that, yielding new scholarship that directly addresses the question of the proper goals of IP law and whether the scope of our current system aligns with those goals.
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