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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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Service Robots in the Hospital, ‘We Robot’ Conference – Coral Gables, FL

uwlegalscholarship — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:32:15 +0000

The University of Miami Law School hosted an inaugural conference on April 21-22, 2012 on Service Robots in the Hospital and legal and policy issues relating to robotics. More information regarding the conference can be found here.

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 17:30:34 +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

Bioethics – Rotterdam, Netherlands

uwlegalscholarship — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:44:40 +0000

Erasmus MC Rotterdam hosts the 11th conference of the International Association of Bioethics, Thinking Ahead: Bioethics and the Future, and the Future of Bioethics June 26-29, 2012.

Satellite workshops:

ELSI 2.0: Planning an International Collaboratory for Genomics and Society Research, June 26, 2012.
FAB (Feminist Approaches to Bioethics), June 25-26, 2012. (The call for papers deadline was Dec. 1, 2011.)
WMA (World Medical Association), June 26, 2012. (The deadline for submitting abstracts was Feb. 1, 2012.)
Circumcision: Forbid, Deter or Encourage?, June 28, 2012.

Call for Papers: Feminist Approaches to Bioethics

uwlegalscholarship — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:26:43 +0000

The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB), sponsored by the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), welcomes feminist scholarship on ethical issues related to health, health care, and the biomedical sciences. The calls for papers are here.

The deadline for Vol. 6, No. 1, an open issue, was April 1, 2012.
The deadline for Vol. 6, No. 2, a special issue on Aging and Long-term Care, is Sept. 15, 2012.
Vol. 7, No. 1 will have papers from FAB 2012. Submissions for that event were due Dec. 1, 2011.

Hat tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw

Internet Culture and the Academy–Ithaca, NY

uwlegalscholarship — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:04:44 +0000

Cornell University‘s Institute for Computer Policy and Law presents Internet Culture and the Academy September 19–21, 2012. More information can be found here.

Hat Tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates