George Mason University School of Law hosts the 40th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy September 21-23, 2012. Conference organizers seek abstracts of papers, proposals for panels and tutorials, demonstrations, and student papers. Submission opens on March 1, 2012. Deadlines are as follows:
March 31, 2012: Main conference abstracts, and proposals for panels, tutorials and demonstrations.
April 30, 2012: Student papers.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 27th, 2012
| Law and Cyberspace, Communications Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Comparative Law, Intellectual Property, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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The Cincinnati Law Intellectual Property and Computer Law Journal (University of Cincinnati College of Law) is seeking papers for its first issue, which will be published in the Spring/Early Summer of 2012. The call for papers deadline is February 13, 2012. The full call for papers can be found on
Faculty Law Conference Law Updates. mm
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 13th, 2012
| Law and Cyberspace, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property |
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The International Association for the Study of the Commons presents the 1st Thematic Conference on the Knowledge Commons, Governing Pooled Knowledge Resources: Building Institutions for Sustainable Scientific, Cultural and Genetic Resources Commons, Sept. 12-14, 2012 at Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 15, 2012.
There will be six tracks for abstract submissions:
- Track 1 on “Scientific Research and Innovation Commons”
- Track 2 on “Digital Information Commons”
- Track 3 on “Historical experience of the knowledge commons”
- Track 4 on “Genetic Resource Commons”
- Track 5 on “Cultural Commons”
- Cross-cutting conference track 6 on climate change
The 1st Global Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons aims to bring together leading people from a number of international scientific research communities, social science researchers, practitioners and policy analysts, to discuss the rationale and practical feasibility of institutional arrangements designed to emulate key public domain conditions for collaborative research.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 27th, 2011
| Law and Science, Law and Technology, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Humanities, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, Health Law, Environmental Law, CONFERENCES |
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The International Trademark Association holds its 134th annual meeting May 5-9, 2012, in Washington, DC
Academic Day (May 7, 2012) “presents programming and networking opportunities specifically for professors, adjunct professors and students of trademark law.” The call for papers for the Third Annual Trademark Scholarship Symposium is after the jump. The deadline for abstracts is Jan. 15, 2012. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 15th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Campbell Law Review presents The New Global Convergence: Intellectual Property, Increasing Prosperity, and Economic Networks In The Twenty-First Century March 16, 2012. The editors are soliciting papers for inclusion in the symposium, which will focus on economic and legal developments in light of the emerging global system, particularly in the area of intellectual property. Working drafts or detailed abstracts should be submitted to Michael Crook, Editor-in-Chief, at culawreview@email.campbell.edu no later than Jan. 6, 2012. For more information and for a list of confirmed presenters, please visit this page. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 15th, 2011
| Law and Economics, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law & Policy and Berkeley Law’s Samuelson Law, Technology, & Public Policy Clinic present Innovate / Activate 2.0 April 20 (2-6 pm) and April 21, 2012 (10 am - 4 pm), 2012, in Berkeley.
Innovate / Activate is about sharing, discussing, and reexamining our approaches to improving global welfare through identifying new and existing IP-related activism efforts, developing strategies for overcoming IP obstacles, and delivering practical solutions to spur change.
Ideas for topics and projects may be submitted here.
Hat tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 15th, 2011
| Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. holds its midwinter meeting Feb. 2-4, 2012.
This year’s meeting will be particularly rich in content as we are collaborating with the American Bar Association Entertainment and Sports Forum (ABA), Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP), Beverly Hills Bar Association (BHBA), California Copyright Conference (CCC), LA Copyright Society (LACS) and the LA Country Bar Association (LACBA) to bring you the copyright field’s foremost experts discussing the latest developments.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 14th, 2011
| Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Pace Law Review invites proposals for an issue about emerging issues in intellectual property, including grey market goods, privacy and media rights, and biotechnology. Proposals are due by Dec. 2, 2011. The full call for papers is available on SSRN. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 16th, 2011
| Communications Law, Law and Technology, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property |
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Campbell Law Review’s 2012 symposium, The New Global Convergence: Intellectual Property, Increasing Prosperity, and Economic Networks In The Twenty-First Century, will take place March 16, 2012.
The symposium invites scholars to examine these economic and legal developments in light of the emerging global system, fraught with peril and promise as we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century.
The submission deadline is Jan. 6, 2012. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 13th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth (Northwestern University School of Law) is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Third Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation, June 21, 2012 (noon) - June 22, 2012 (3 pm). “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. Potential attendees should indicate their interest in receiving an invitation by sending a message to Derek Gundersen at dgundersen [at] law.northwestern.edu.
The deadline for submitting papers is Feb. 7, 2012.
The conference is organized in cooperation with the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), which is edited by Daniel F. Spulber. JEMS encourages submissions on Internet search and innovation. Submissions are independent of the conference. Authors presenting papers at the conference need not submit to JEMS and are welcome to publish their work in other venues (with appropriate acknowledgement of the Searle Center).
Papers prepared for the conference will be permanently hosted on the Searle Center website. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 13th, 2011
| Law and Economics, Law and Cyberspace, Antitrust Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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Arcada University of Applied Sciences will host the 4th European Conference on Intellectual Capital April 23-24, 2012.
The goals of ECIC 2012 are to provide a platform for presenting different academic and professional approaches (i.e. conceptual, empirical, managerial, multidisciplinary and case studies etc.) and discussions on recent developments and the outlook for the future in the field of intellectual capital management and its related fields, in Europe and around the world. Further, to provide an opportunity for scholars, practitioners and doctoral students to have their contributions to theory and practice reviewed, encouraged and commented on within a supportive academic and professional community of colleagues from diverse disciplinary and international backgrounds.
The deadline for submitting abstracts has passed. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 2nd, 2011
| Business Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism hosts the 10th Annual Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC10) May 21-23, 2012.
Submissions may come from any discipline. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Industry involvement – gaming, youth, social media; consumption patterns, online popular culture; China as original developer in gaming products;
- Governance issues – state regulation and content controls; e-government and m-government; civil society and Internet governance; China and global Internet governance;
- Online social movements – social media and grassroots activism; micro blogging and its impact across traditional Internet portals and start-ups over the new generation of Chinese “digital natives”;
- Ten years in retrospect – review of developments in digital/social media and prognoses for the future of the internet
We will accept three categories of English-language submissions:
- Full papers – these should be 20–25 pages long with a maximum of 10,000 words.
- Extended abstracts – these should be 750–1,000 words.
- Panel submissions – these should have a maximum of 2,000 words.
The deadline for submissions is Jan. 30, 2012. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 2nd, 2011
| Law and Cyberspace, Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property |
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The Drake Intellectual Property Law Center presents the 2012 Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable March 30-31, 2012.
This annual interdisciplinary event brings together intellectual property and technology law scholars from around the world to present their works-in-progress. It provides academics with a forum for sharing their latest research and an opportunity for peer networking.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 2nd, 2011
| Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Association for Law, Property and Society (ALPS) holds its 3rd Annual Meeting March 2-3, 2012, at Georgetown Law. The meeting is cosponsored by Syracuse University College of Law.
The call for papers is broad, covering indigenous rights, climate change, intellectual property, and more. It does not appear to have a deadline. “All papers submitted for the conference will be eligible for consideration for publication in a “themed” book to be edited as a part of the series on Law, Property, and Society published by Ashgate Publishing.”
Registration opened Sept. 1, 2011, and closes Jan. 20, 2012.
Hat tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 3rd, 2011
| Legal History, Human Rights Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Environmental Law, CONFERENCES, Intellectual Property, Property Law |
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The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, the University of Oregon School of Law, and the Oregon Law Review present (un)Bound by Law: Keith Aoki Memorial Symposium Oct. 1, 2011.
Keith was a brilliant and humble law scholar and artist. He taught at the University of Oregon School of Law for 13 years and is remembered for his wit, intelligence, and kindness to colleagues and students. We will honor him with tributes about the importance of his scholarship in copyright law, local government law and Asian-American jurisprudence, and we will celebrate with a concert by his law school band, The Garden Weasels.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 20th, 2011
| Local Government Law, Law and Race, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Canadian Council on International Law will host its 40th Annual Conference on Culture and Innovation in International Law Nov. 3-5, 2011, in Ottawa, Canada. sr
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 29th, 2011
| Law and Technology, Human Rights Law, International Law, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, CONFERENCES |
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The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, “an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period . . . from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century,” will hold its 43rd annual meeting March 22-25, 2012, in San Antonio. Among the many panels listed in the call for papers (available as a Word document here) are:
- “Copyright: Contexts and Contests” (The Bibliographical Society of America) Molly O’Hagan Hardy, mollyohardy [at] mail.utexas.edu (pp. 2-3)
- “Authors and Readers in the Eighteenth Century” (Society for the History of Authorship,
Reading, and Publishing — SHARP) Marta Kvande, marta.kvande [at] ttu.edu (p. 17)
- “Law & the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century” Andrew Benjamin Bricker, abricker [at] stanford.edu (pp. 41-42)
- “Scotland, England, and Copyright Law” Jared Richman, jrichman [at] coloradocollege.edu (p. 51)
- “I Testify: Truth and Self in Law and Fiction” Kate Gaudet, ksgaudet [at] uchicago.edu (p. 54)
- “Literature and Human Rights in the Eighteenth Century” Ramesh Mallipeddi, ramesh.mallipeddi [at] hunter.cuny.edu (p. 58)
The deadline for proposals is Sept. 15, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 25th, 2011
| Law and Humanities, Human Rights Law, Law and Literature, Legal History, Intellectual Property, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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The International Association of IT Lawyers will hold the following conferences in Nicosia, Cyprus, Sept. 19-22, 2011. Each conference has a call for papers. Deadlines: Aug. 15, 2011 (full research papers); Sept. 5, 2011 (abstract presentations).
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 13th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Law and Cyberspace, International Law, Business Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Northern Kentucky Law Review and Salmon P. Chase College of Law seek submissions for the Law & Informatics Symposium on March 1-2, 2012. The Law Review Symposium will take place March 2nd. It will be preceded by a day-long CLE program March 1 regarding practical solutions to current problems facing attorneys and clients.
The Symposium is an opportunity for academics, practitioners, consultants, and students to exchange ideas and explore emerging issues in informatics law, disruptive innovation and the increasingly interconnected information environment. Interdisciplinary presentations are encouraged. Authors and presenters are invited to submit proposals on a variety of topics, spanning privacy, Internet regulation, business and entrepreneurship, security, and creative media industries. See the full call for papers here.
Abstracts are due Sept. 15, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 1st, 2011
| National Security Law, Law and Cyberspace, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, in conjunction with the Institute of European and Comparative Law of the University of Oxford, presents The Common Law of Intellectual Property in an Era of Europeanisation: European Methods and Interactions in the Field of Intellectual Property Law, Jan. 7-8, 2012.
By considering seven specific topics relating to the making and impact of European IP Law – namely, models of harmonisation, the pursuit of harmonisation, the creation of European IP courts, the impact of constitutional rights and values on IP, the impact of general EU Law on IP, the relationship between European and national courts, and European (IP) legal methodology/ies – we hope to further understanding of the impact of Europeanisation on the substance and quality of law, the process of law-making in a Europeanised system, and the requirements for a truly “European” legal order. Thus, using IP as a case study in private law Europeanisation, we hope to generate insights of relevance and application within the fields of IP and private law generally, and to help develop a European legal methodology.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 27th, 2011
| Courts, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Tulane-Siena Institute for International Law, Cultural Heritage & the Arts, the University of Siena, and the European University Institute present Defending Aphrodite: Enforcing International Cultural Property Law - June 3-4, 2011, in Siena, Italy. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 3rd, 2011
| Law and Humanities, International Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Tanzania Intellectual Property Rights Network (TIP-Net) held an Intellectual Property IP Palaver (to mark the World’s IP day) in Arusha, Tanzania, April 30, 2011. The theme of the palaver was “Designing the future: towards harmonization of IP laws of the East African Community Member States.”
Apologies to the organizers for the late posting. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 2nd, 2011
| Comparative Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Ph.D. students of the Queen Mary University School of Law present the Queen Mary PhD Conference 2011, Pushing Legal Knowledge Boundaries, June 7, 2011.
The call for papers deadline has been extended to April 25, 2011.
We invite papers from all areas of law, including:Intellectual Property | Public International | Human Rights | Criminal | Competition | Commercial & Corporate | Banking & Finance | Tax | European Union | Litigation | Constitutional | Arbitration | Information Technology
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 18th, 2011
| Comparative Law, Antitrust Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Civil Procedure, Human Rights Law, Law and Cyberspace, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, Tax Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES |
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The AALS Section on Law Libraries will hold a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting, Jan. 4-8, 2012, in Washington, D.C., on Libraries and Copyright: Friends, Enemies, or Strangers on a Common Path? The submission deadline is Sept. 16, 2011. This Call for Papers will result in a panel presentation (Jan. 5, 2-5) by three to five authors writing in areas suggested by the program description, which follows: Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 7th, 2011
| Law Librarianship, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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American University Washington College of Law (WCL) will host the first annual Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property Aug. 25-27, 2011. The Global Congress will be co-hosted by WCL’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Fundação Getulio Vargas’s Center for Technology and Society (Brazil), the American Assembly at Columbia University, the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (Geneva), and the Institute for Global and International Studies at George Washington University.
he Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property is being created as an alternative forum to the annual industry-organized Global Congress Against Counterfeiting and Piracy, which was one of the main incubators for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and other components of the ongoing enforcement agenda in international intellectual property law. The enforcement agenda has come under increasing scrutiny from public interest advocates and independent researchers, including through the recently released Media Piracy in Emerging Economies report. Taking these research and advocacy interventions as a starting point, the Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property will serve as a site for the sharing of research, ideas and policy proposals for how international intellectual property law should be constructed to better protect the full range of global public interest concerns.
Paper and presentation proposals are due by April 15, 2011. Update (March 29): the form for submitting proposals will be up by April 15. This is not a submission deadline. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 28th, 2011
| Public Interest Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Harvard International Law Journal’s 2011 symposium, on intellectual property law and enforcement, will take place March 25, 2011, 12-5 pm. The program will include a keynote address and three panels: International
Institutional Landscape for IP rights enforcement; International Entertainment IP/International Piracy; and International Pharmaceutical Industry. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 7th, 2011
| International Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The National Bureau of Economic Research’s Innovation Policy and the Economy Working Group is seeking paper proposals for a conference on Patents, Standards and Innovation. Proposals are due March 3, 2011. “A pre-conference is scheduled for May 7, 2011, in Cambridge, MA, and the formal conference will be held in late 2011 or early 2012.” Papers from the conference — and some others — will be published in a theme issue of the International Journal of Industrial Organization (IJIO).
The goal of this conference is to promote original empirical and theoretical research on intellectual property issues in technologies or sectors in which de facto, voluntary, legal or technical standards play an important role.
The full call for papers is posted on the Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 21st, 2011
| Law and Economics, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The La Trobe University School of Law will host the third annual Conference on Innovation and Communications Law May 29-31, 2011. The Conference is a cooperative effort of La Trobe University School of Law, Drake University Law School, the University of Hawai’i, William S. Richardson School of Law, the University of Louisville School of Law, Michigan State University College of Law, the University of Turku Faculty of Law, and the IPR University Center, Finland. The theme for this year’s conference is Re-envisioning Progress: Pluralistic Visions of Intellectual Property in a Globalized, Digitized Era.
Focusing on the globalization of intellectual property rights (IPR), this conference aims to look beyond utilitarian rationales for intellectual property (IP) protection and take account of diverse constituencies and new technological realities. The committee is keen to receive proposals for papers that consider pluralistic notions of IPR and/or IP rationales that go beyond narrow utilitarian incentives. Topics may push the bounds of traditional expectations of the role of intellectual property and communications law (IPCL) in promoting or regulating the following: open access; free culture; the software movement; efforts to protect and enforce indigenous peoples traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, genetic resources, and/or United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN DRIP) assets and resources; or the navigation of diverse national traditions with respect to ownership/custodianship/stewardship/management of IP.
Proposals/abstracts are due by March 15, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 21st, 2011
| Communications Law, Human Rights Law, Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property hosts its Sixth Annual Symposium The Economics of Intellectual Property and Technology March 4, 2011.
Panels:
- Economics of Biotechnology: The Human Gene Patenting Debate
- Economics of Licensing and Intellectual Property Capitalization
- Economics of Telecommunication: The Impact of The Broadband Plan on Competition
IP & Technology Conversation: This session will focus on some themes from Professor John McGinnis’s forthcoming book, Accelerating Democracy. Professor McGinnis will discuss his research and lead a discussion with Professor Robert Bennett and Professor Ilya Somin.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 20th, 2011
| Law and Politics, Communications Law, Law and Technology, Law and Economics, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) Graduate Law Students Assocation presents its 2011 Conference, No Boundaries: Transnational Law and a New Order of Global Governance, May 9-10, 2011. Abstract proposals are due March 4, 2011.
We welcome papers that engage in questions of “boundaries”, particularly those with a focus on globalization, models of governance and transnational law. We are interested in a broad range of work dealing with the financial markets (commercial, banking and financial law), environmental protection, administrative law, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, tax, e-commerce, intellectual property, women’s studies, trade, human rights, crisis and emergency planning, labour and employment, health, disability, historical conceptions of regulation and governance, reflections upon the nature and operative conditions of governance, the relationship between state sovereignty and regulatory authority. Papers with an interdisciplinary focus and from graduate students in other disciplines are strongly encouraged.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 20th, 2011
| Labor and Employment Law, Administrative Law, Law and Gender, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Human Rights Law, Law and Cyberspace, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, Tax Law, Environmental Law, CONFERENCES |
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George Mason University School of Law hosts the 39th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy Sept. 23-25, 2011.
TPRC is a non-profit organization that hosts an annual forum for scholars and decision-makers in the fields of telecommunications and information policy. The purpose of the conference is to acquaint policy-makers with the best of recent research, and to familiarize researchers with the knowledge needs of policy makers.
Abstracts for the Call for Papers are due March 31, 2011. The deadline for the Student Paper Award is April 30, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 7th, 2011
| JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Cyberspace, Communications Law, Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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The University of Kansas School of Law hosts the inaugural “Patent Conference” Friday, April 8, 2011. The call for papers deadline is Feb. 15, 2011.<blockquote>The Patent Conference, or Pat Con, is a cooperative effort between the University of Kansas School of Law, the Chicago-Kent College of Law, the University of San Diego School of Law, and Boston College Law School to hold an annual conference where patent scholars in law, economics, management science, and other disciplines can share their research. Given the importance, and rapid growth, of academic research into patents, Dave Schwartz, Ted Sichelman, David Olson, and I [Andrew Torrance] believe the time has come for the wide range of scholars engaged in this important work to gather in a regular forum, as scholars in intellectual property have fruitfully done for years. After this year’s inaugural Patent Conference, future annual conferences will rotate among Boston College, Chicago-Kent, San Diego, and the University of Kansas.
If you would like to present your patent research at the 2011 Patent Conference, please submit an abstract to Andrew Torrance at torrance@ku.edu by February 15th, 2011. You are more than welcome to attend even if you prefer not to present. We welcome scholarship from legal academics, but also encourage participation from scholars in economics, business, management science, policy, medicine, public health, engineering, and technology studies. Presenters will be expected to cover their own travel and accommodations expenses, but there will be no registration fee, and meals and refreshments during the conference will be provided. We look forward to your participation in the Patent Conference/Pat Con 2011.
Cheers,
Andrew, Dave, Ted, and David
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 30th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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From June 5 to June 7, 2011, the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation and the Professorship for Intellectual Property at ETH Zurich will jointly organize their Second Workshop for Junior Researchers on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. The workshop will be held in Wildbad Kreuth, a lovely region one hour south of Munich, Germany. The submission deadline is Feb. 28, 2011.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 11th, 2011
| Law and Economics, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Antitrust Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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Monash University Law presents Business Innovation: A Legal Balancing Act: Perspectives from IP, Labour and Employment, Competition and Corporate Laws. The conference will be held at the Monash University Centre in Prato, Tuscany, Italy May 2-4, 2011, Monash University.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 26th, 2010
| Labor and Employment Law, Antitrust Law, Business Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Second Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation. The conference will be held at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, IL. The conference will run from noon Tues. June 7 to 3:00 p.m. Wed., June 8, 2011. The submission deadline is Feb. 7, 2011.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 12th, 2010
| Law and Cyberspace, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the twelfth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on June 24-25, 2011, and seek submissions for this meeting. The focus of the twelfth session will be private law and dispute resolution. The topics to be addressed are: Bankruptcy, Torts, Taxation, Contracts, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Corporate & Securities Law, Private International Law, Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Property, The Legal Profession. The call for papers deadline is March 17, 2011. The full call is available on SSRN.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 12th, 2010
| Antitrust Law, Tort Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Civil Procedure, Legal Profession, Bankruptcy Law, Securities Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES, Property Law, Business Law, Tax Law, Commercial Law, International Law, Contract Law |
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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, in collaboration with Harvard Law School’s Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law (“JSEL”), is pleased to announce a call for papers, seeking policy proposals that advance the interests of music creators, consumers, and entrepreneurs through changes in existing law. The call for papers coincides with Berklee College of Music’s upcoming conference, “Rethink Music: Creativity, Commerce and Policy in the 21st Century,” scheduled to be held in Boston and Cambridge, MA, April 25-27, 2011. Harvard Business School is another sponsor of the conference. The submission deadline is Jan. 24, 2011.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 8th, 2010
| Law and Cyberspace, Law and Humanities, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Graduate Law Students’ Society of the University of British Columbia invites graduate students in all disciplines to participate in its 16th annual interdisciplinary academic conference, to be held in Vancouver, Canada, May 13-14, 2011. The theme for the 2011 conference is Creative Law.
The conference is intended to promote reflection on “creativity and the law” in all the possible senses of that phrase: law and its interaction with the arts, including literature and theatre; innovation within the law and innovative uses of the law; the development of new law; legal postmodernism; new and distinctive ways of interpreting law; the relationship between law and religion; the application, adoption or appropriation of law in or by other disciplines…and in a thousand other ways.
The call for papers deadline is Feb. 4, 2011.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 29th, 2010
| Legal Research & Writing, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Humanities, Law and Philosophy, Law and Religion, Law and Literature, Intellectual Property, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Law and Society, CONFERENCES |
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American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Policy (PIJIP) and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines will cohost a university innovation symposium on neglected diseases Nov. 20, 2010. The workshop is for NGO representatives, university professors and administrators, and policy makers to focus on strategies to increase research on neglected diseases and innovative policies for universities to contribute most effectively to the medicines innovation system. Topics will include intellectual property protection, licensing, and alternate models of funding.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 2nd, 2010
| Health Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group in co-sponsorship with ASIL-Midwest, University of Minnesota Law School, Minnesota Journal of International Law, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press will host its biennial conference International Economic Law in a Time of Change: Reassessing Legal Theory, Doctrine, Methodology and Policy Prescriptions, Nov. 18-20, 2010, at the University of Minnesota.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 31st, 2010
| Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Asian Society of International Law invites submissions for its Third Biennial Conference, Asia and International Law: A New Era, which will take place Aug. 27-28, 2011, in Beijing, China. The submission deadline is Dec. 1, 2010.
The organizers welcome papers dealing with the following topics for consideration:
1. Law of the Sea
2. Climate Change and Development
3. Disaster Management and International Law
4. Human Rights, Sovereignty, and Asia (including regional human rights mechanisms, Asian developments, etc.)
5. Developments in International Criminal Law: Peace and Justice, the International Criminal Court, Issues of Universal Jurisdiction
6. Migration and Dislocation: Refugees, Migrant Workers, Internally Displaced Persons
7. Armed Conflict, International Law, and Human Rights
8. Asia, Regional Arrangements and Free Trade Agreements (including comparative studies of regionalism, regionalism and security arrangements)
9. Transnational Litigation and Arbitration in Asia
10. Intellectual Property and International Law
11. The Effect of Treaties and Foreign Law in Domestic Courts in Asia
12. The Contribution of Asian Judges and Jurists to International Law
13. Asia and Third World Approaches to International Law
14. International Law Education and Research in Asia
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 27th, 2010
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, National Security Law, Comparative Law, Human Rights Law, Legal Education, International Law, Intellectual Property, Criminal Law, Environmental Law, CONFERENCES |
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The International Trademark Association (“INTA”) is pleased to host the Second Annual Trademark Scholarship Symposium during the 133rd INTA Annual Meeting (May 14-18, 2011) in San Francisco, California. The Symposium will take place on Monday, May 16, 2011 as part of INTA’s Academic Day, which features a series of programs of particular relevance to professors and students interested in trademark law and practice. The deadline for abstracts is Jan. 1, 2011. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 13th, 2010
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Association for Law, Property and Society (ALPS) holds its second annual meeting March 4-5, 2011, at Georgetown Law.
Property related topics will cover a number of subject areas including:
- Real, Personal, and Intangible Property
- Cultural Property
- Intellectual Property
- Real Estate Transactions and Finance
- Land Use and Zoning
- Urban Planning and Development
- Environmental Law
- Climate Change
- Housing
- Home
- Green Development
- Mortgages and Foreclosure
- Land Titles
- Indigenous Populations and Sovereignty
- Human Rights and Property
- Entrepreneurship and Property
- Takings and Eminent Domain
- Property Theory
- Property History
- The Economics of Property
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All papers submitted for the conference will be eligible for consideration for publication in a “themed” book to be edited as a part of the series on Law, Property, and Society published by Ashgate Publishing. If there are enough papers to form more than one good edited book, consideration will be given to publishing more than one book. Authors are free to publish papers elsewhere rather than in a proposed conference book. Papers can be works in progress (rather than finished works) for purposes of presenting at the conference.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 28th, 2010
| Law and Economics, Local Government Law, Human Rights Law, Agricultural Law, Legal History, Indian Law, CONFERENCES, Intellectual Property, Environmental Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Property Law |
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The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law is accepting scholarly papers related to “Biotechnology and Health-Related Issues in IP Law” for its spring 2011 issue. Professionals and scholars are invited to submit a working paper or idea for consideration. Published individuals may also be invited to present their works at the RIPL symposium April 15, 2011. Proposals are due by September 10, 2010. For questions, contact questions regarding submissions, contact: Wasim K. Bleibel, Lead Articles Editor, wbleibe [at] law.jmls.edu.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 28th, 2010
| Law and Technology, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) (National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India), the only law journal in India specifically devoted to the field of technology law, invites submissions for Volume No. 7 of 2011. The Journal follows a rolling submissions policy and the deadline for the forthcoming volume is 15 November 2010. The submissions received after this date shall be considered for the next volume.
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 issues from a comparative perspective and/or the perspective of the developing world.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 16th, 2010
| Comparative Law, Law and Technology, Law and Cyberspace, Antitrust Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law, International Law, Intellectual Property |
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The Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society’s 29th Annual Conference will be “Owning the Past: Whose Past? Whose Present?” It will take place Dec. 13-15, 2010, in Melbourne, Australia.
The use and study of the past is constantly being refashioned and reinterpreted to construct meaning in the present, imparting understandings of a common but chaotic humanity. Because everyone and no one ‘owns’ history, the ownership of historical events and the right to speak of them remains deeply contested. What are the outcomes and practical challenges surrounding the construction of historical consciousness through and about law? Whose past is told and by whom? How does law’s past influence history’s present? And is there any such thing as the orderly evolution of legal ideas? This conference invites papers on the subject of ownership in history and law, and may include contributions on any of several broad themes: the contestation of memory; the ethics of representation and remembrance; the commoditization and consumption of traumatic pasts; transcultural and transgenerational trauma; new technologies of historical documentation; testimony and bearing witness; Indigenous knowledge; identity politics; citizenship; the ethics of reproducing historical narratives; colonialism and hegemony; ‘dark’ tourism and artefacts of law; and new legal imaginings and the contest with the legal past.This is an interdisciplinary conference and papers are invited from scholars across a broad range of disciplines, as well as chronological and geographical contexts.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 9th, 2010
| Law and Society, Human Rights Law, Legal History, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES, Property Law |
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Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program, Michigan State University College of Law, presents Bits without Borders: Law, Communications & Transnational Culture Flow in the Digital Age, Sept. 24-25, 2010. The call for papers deadline is June 25, 2010.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 9th, 2010
| Law and Cyberspace, Human Rights Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth announces a Research Symposium on the Economics and Law of Internet Search to be held at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, IL, June 10-11, 2010 (noon Thur. to 1 pm Fri.).
The conference is organized by Professor Daniel F. Spulber, Research Director, Searle Center Research Project on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Growth, and Henry N. Butler, Executive Director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law.
The goal of this Research Symposium 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 the economics and law of Internet search. The conference will cover academic work on Internet search and the discussion will examine public policy issues in antitrust, regulation, and intellectual property. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 24th, 2010
| Communications Law, Law and Cyberspace, Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) will present an international conference, Resources of Conflict – Conflicts over Resources, Oct. 7-9, 2010, in Göttingen, Germany. The deadline for abstracts is June 1, 2010. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 27th, 2010
| National Security Law, Communications Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) presents the Second Annual ISHTIP Workshop, Geographies of Intellectual Property, at American University in Washington, DC, Sept. 24-26, 2010. The prospectus submission deadline is June 5, 2010. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 23rd, 2010
| Law and Society, Legal History, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at the UC Berkeley School of Law will host the 10th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference on August 12th and 13th, 2010. Requests to submit should be presented by May 3, 2010.
The conference is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Berkeley Law School; the Intellectual Property Program, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University; the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology, DePaul University College of Law; and the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, Stanford Law School. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 23rd, 2010
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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On June 16-17, 2010, American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property will host a workshop of scholars and advocates to assess the potential public interest impacts of the shift of international intellectual property norm setting to an enforcement agenda. This workshop will be followed by the launch of a working paper series on Public Interest Analysis of the International Intellectual Property Enforcement Agenda.
The enforcement agenda includes the proposals for an Anticounterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) at its center, but also includes other manifestations including the expansion of enforcement provisions in free trade agreements, seizures of drugs in Europe, broad “anticounterfeiting” national laws and bills such as that passed in Kenya and being considered in other African countries, pressure on countries through Special 301 and GSP benefit determinations, foreign aid and technical assistance directives, and other means.PIJIP seeks to promote the creation of short (8-12 page) plain language policy papers analyzing possible public interest impacts of elements of the enforcement agenda.
Abstracts are due April 15, 2010. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 13th, 2010
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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George Mason University School of Law hosts TPRC’s 38th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy Oct. 1-3, 2010. TPRC is now soliciting abstracts of papers, panel proposals, and student papers for presentation at the 2010 conference. Proposals should be based on current theoretical or empirical research relevant to communication and information policy, and may be from any disciplinary perspective. TPRC seeks submissions of disciplinary, comparative, multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary excellence. Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to 11 listed topics. The deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is March 31, 2010.
The deadline for the student call for papers is April 30, 2010. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 11th, 2010
| Law and Cyberspace, Communications Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Music Law Conference at the University of Florida Levin College of Law is hosting its 8th annual conference on February 27, 2010.
The conference brings together musicians, lawyers, students, academics, policy makers and entertainment professionals for a weekend to network, learn, and share ideas. It is our goal that everyone, from the disgruntled ex-band member to the seasoned entertainment attorney, that attends the conference will leave with a new perspective on the music industry.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 21st, 2009
| Law and Humanities, Business Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The University of Florida Levin College of Law will host the 8th annual Music Law Conference on Feb. 27, 2010. The conference brings together musicians, lawyers, students, academics, policy makers and entertainment professionals for a weekend to network, learn, and share ideas. Topics will include: digital and retail markets, new forms of music distribution, international issues, ethical issues, protecting musicians’ rights, understanding both sides of the table, the art of business, and basic do-it-yourself ideas for new artists. For updates and additional information, see the UF Music Law Conference Blog. ajc
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 13th, 2009
| Law and Humanities, Business Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Tilburg Law and Economics Center (Tilburg University) presents Workshop on Innovation, Intellectual Property and
Competition Policy Dec. 18, 2009.
In this half-day workshop, the winners of the TILEC IIPC (Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition) grant 2008 will present the first results of their research. Attendance is free, but registration is required.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 9th, 2009
| Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Culture, Society, and Intellectual Property CRN (Collaborative Research Network No. 14) of the Law and Society Association is organizing panel proposals for the upcoming annual meeting (May 27-30, 2010). The deadline for proposals is November 30, 2009, but earlier proposals are encouraged. The call for papers is on the Empirical Legal Studies Blog. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 8th, 2009
| Law and Society, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 2nd, 2009
| Law and Cyberspace, Law and Technology, Law Librarianship, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles Nov. 20-21, 2009. The preliminary program is here. Paper abstracts are available on SSRN.
Panel topics address a wide range of legal areas and institutions, including:
- corporate governance (several panels), securities litigation, the financial crisis, tax, bankruptcy, business entities
- law and politics (several panels), elections, lobbying
- capital punishment, policing, criminal evidence, prisons
- law and neuroscience, behavioral law and economics
- law schools, the legal profession
- courts, jurors, victims and witnesses, attitudes and decisionmaking, settlement
- civil rights, environmental law, property, torts, family law, medical malpractice, contracts, administrative law, patent, international law
(These are all separate panels. I grouped them into the bullet points to make the list easier to browse.) mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 23rd, 2009
| Empirical Legal Studies, Evidence Law, Law and Economics, Civil Rights Law, Tort Law, Law and Psychology, Civil Procedure, Legal Profession, Courts, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Politics, Securities Law, Administrative Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES, Business Law, Family Law, Legal Education, International Law, Environmental Law, Tax Law, Property Law |
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Notre Dame Law School will host the 2009 Midwestern Law & Economics Association (MLEA) annual meeting on October 9-10, 2009 at Eck Hall of Law. Topics to be covered at the conference include: torts and health care, criminal law and welfare economics, and intellectual property and competition law. jv
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 7th, 2009
| Tort Law, Law and Economics, Health Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy presents D Is for Digitize, Oct. 8-10, 2009.
The conference will discuss Google’s plan to digitize books and the class action settlement now awaiting court approval. It will feature a lineup of academics and practitioners who will examine the settlement through the lenses of copyright, civil procedure, antitrust, information policy, literary culture, and the publishing industry.
The conference is timed to coincide with the rescheduled fairness hearing in the Google Book Search case, to be held on Wednesday, October 7, just five blocks away from the Law School. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2009
| Civil Procedure, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Humanities, Law and Literature, Intellectual Property, Antitrust Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Seventh International Conference on the Book will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 16-18, 2009.
“This is a conference for any participant in the world of books - authors, publishers, printers, librarians, IT specialists, book retailers, editors, literacy educators and academic researchers.”
The deadline for the current round in the call for papers is Aug. 20, 2009.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 10th, 2009
| Law Librarianship, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property announces its 7th Annual Symposium on IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections, to be held April 16, 2010.
Over the past seven years, the IP/Gender symposium has provided a forum to examine and discuss research on gendered dimensions of intellectual property law. Because issues of gender in intellectual property have been under-appreciated and remain under-theorized, much of this work has been exploratory and pioneering. Topics discussed in past years have ranged from the impact of intellectual property law and policy on gender-related imbalances in wealth, cultural access, political power, and social control; creative production and gender; the effects of stereotyping and of actual and rhetorical feminization and masculinization of participant roles upon intellectual property stakeholders; the gendered development of IP doctrines and doctrinal categories; related issues in the teaching and practicing of intellectual property; feminist jurisprudential insights about intellectual property law; and female fan cultures and intellectual property.
The Spring 2010 symposium will again offer an opportunity to present and critique innovative research, related to the special theme, that is either currently underway or now under contemplation. As in previous years, anticipate the program and the audience will be highly interdisciplinary, including historians, social scientists, legal academics, cultural scholars, and practicing lawyers bringing their disciplinary perspectives to bear on the theme. A limited number of spaces is available on the program.
The coordinators invite proposals for papers on gender issues relating to the production and use of inventions, broadly defined. Appropriate topics might include: gendered patterns in the history of invention or creation; gendered regulation of inventive activities; gendered models of individual and collective inventive activities; gendered aspects in licensing or assignment of technologies; and related subjects. Abstracts should be received by Monday, October 30, 2009. Papers will be selected for presentation and possible publication by November 15, 2009, and will be due by March 1, 2010.
Additional guidelines and links to the web forms for submission are available at the conference website.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 6th, 2009
| Law and Gender, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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A is for Antitrust
B is for Book
C is for Copyright
and
D IS FOR DIGITIZE
A Conference on the Google Book Search Lawsuit
New York Law School
(Institute for Information Law and Policy)
Thursday, October 8 through Saturday, October 10, 2009
Everything about the Google Book Search project is larger than life, from Google’s audacious plan to digitize every book ever published to the gigantic class action settlement now awaiting court approval. D IS FOR Digitize will give this complex lawsuit the sustained attention it deserves. An interdisciplinary lineup of academics and practitioners will examine the settlement through the lenses of copyright, civil procedure, antitrust, the publishing industry, information policy, and literary culture. The conference is timed to coincide with the rescheduled fairness hearing in the Google Book Search case, which will be held on Wednesday, October 7 in New York City, just five blocks from the Law School.
Email infolaw [at] nyls.edu for more information or to be placed on the conference mailing list.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 10th, 2009
| Law and Cyberspace, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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On April 9-10, 2010, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology will be hosting a conference to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Statute of Anne. This conference will feature a host
of excellent presentations, looking back and looking forward, from the Statute of Anne to the future of copyright in the digital age. A symposium issue of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal will feature articles by leading copyright scholars who will be presenting at the conference.
Information about this event is being distributed via CyberProf.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 13th, 2009
| Legal History, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The University of Louisville will host the second annual Conference on Innovation and Communication Law on August 21 and 22, 2009. The Conference, a follow-up to the 2008 conference held in Turku, Finland, is a cooperative effort of the University of Louisville School of Law, University of Turku Faculty of Law, Michigan State University College of Law, Drake University Law School, and the IPR Center in Helsinki, Finland.
This year’s conference will focus mainly on the role intellectual property and communications law play in the dissemination of information. As a result, discussion will focus less on the creation of rights, and more on how the legal system helps (or hinders) the development of knowledge.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 10th, 2009
| Communications Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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Brooklyn Law
Wendy Gordon (Boston Law), Computer Technology, Moral Philosophy, and Copyright: The Grokster Case
Harvard Health Law
Arti Rai (Duke Law), The Promise (and Limits) of Facially Neutral Patent Standards
NYU Legal History
R. Owen Williams (NYU Law), An Impartial Jury of the State”—A Flash of Nationalism in 1880
Pacific McGeorge
Sionaidh Douglas Scott (Oxford Law)
SMU
Jeffery Kahn (SMU Law)
St. Louis
Jeff A. Redding (St. Louis Law), Dignity, Legal Pluralism, and Same-Sex Marriage
Toledo
Scott Hershovitz (Michigan Law), Harry Potter and the Purpose of Tort Law
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 1st, 2009
| Law and Sexuality, Law and Technology, Legal History, Civil Rights Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The High Tech Law Institute of Santa Clara University School of Law and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology of UC Berkeley School of Law present a Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the 1909 Copyright Act on April 30, 2009.
The 1909 Copyright Act marked a revolution in U.S. copyright law. The 1909 Act was the first to protect works upon publication with notice, without prior registration; the first to expressly recognize a right to prepare derivative works; and the first to expressly recognize the public domain. The 1909 Act remained in effect for seven decades, during which time copyright law was repeatedly called upon to deal with the disruptive effect of new technologies, such as motion pictures, sound recordings, radio and television, photocopy machines, and computers. As a result, the 1909 Act had a significant influence on the copyright law we have today.
Join two dozen distinguished scholars and practitioners to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the 1909 Act and its profound effect on U.S. and international copyright law. Attendance is free and open to the public.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 16th, 2009
| Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 16th, 2009
| Law and Technology, Law and Cyberspace, Antitrust Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, Business Law, CONFERENCES |
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Connecticut
Justin Long (Connecticut Law), Against Certification
Emory
Francesco Parisi (Minnesota Law)
Harvard Health Law
Ben Roin (Harvard Law), The Perverse Incentives Created by the Patent Term for Drugs
Hofstra
Darren Hutchinson (American University Law), Sexuality, Politics, and Doctrinal Evolution
Northwestern Law and Political Economy
Daniel B. Rodrigues (Texas Law), Is Administrative Law Inevitable
NYU Legal History
James Whitman (Yale Law), Western Legal Imperialism: Thinking About the Deep Historical Roots
St. Louis
Amy Coney Barrett (Notre Dame Law)
USC Law History and Culture
Amy Adler (NYU Law), Medusa: A Look at Women in First Amendment Law
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 18th, 2009
| Law and Sexuality, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Law and Gender, Law and Economics, Health Law, Legal History, Intellectual Property |
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The inaugural Conference on Intellectual Property (CIP) will be held June 12-13, 2009, at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, and will include keynote addresses by Laura M. Quilter, M.L.S., J.D. and painter Joy Garnett. The call for papers deadline is March 6, 2009. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 16th, 2009
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property |
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The Drake Intellectual Property Law Center presents the 2009 Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable on February 27-28, 2009. This interdisciplinary roundtable provides academics with a forum for sharing their latest research and an opportunity for peer networking. The event will feature presentations from more than 50 experts from the United States, as well as Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Israel and the United Kingdom.
This event is by invitation only. For a full program, a list of confirmed participants, and registration information, please visit the event website above.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 14th, 2009
| Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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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.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 13th, 2009
| Law and Technology, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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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.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 26th, 2009
| Law and Technology, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The University of Akron School of Law and Sughrue Mion, PLLC, present the 11th Annual Richard C. Sughrue Symposium on Intellectual Property Law and Policy: Old Problems, New Directions, March 9, 2009.
The program will feature a review of recent development in patent, trademark and copyright law by noted experts in the field. It will also include a review of the PTO’s new disciplinary rules and a panel discussion on the likely impact of the Obama administration on IP policy. The featured luncheon speaker will be Chief Judge Paul R. Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 6th, 2009
| Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The inaugural Conference on Intellectual Property (CIP) will be held on June 12-13th 2009 at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, and will include a keynote addresses by Laura M. Quilter, M.L.S., J.D. and painter Joy Garnett.
Whether it be the submission of student papers to plagiarism-detecting websites, the marketing of a movie that chronicles the challenges of a windshield wiper inventor, or the latest debates over the application of nonobvious intention, issues involving intellectual property in the academic, economic, legal, and technological fields challenge the very notion of ownership: what we own, how we own, and who may claim ownership. The purpose of this conference is to explore intellectual property, in a cross-disciplinary context, as both a concept and a reality relating to the professional fields whose concerns intersect in understanding its essence and implications.We invite papers and panels dealing with any and all aspects of intellectual property, from the origins of eighteenth-century literary property debates to the viability and ethics of plagiarism and plagiarism detection, from the economic impact of patents to the technological advances that may make intellectual property obsolete. We especially encourage papers/panels that embrace a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary approach.
CIP papers and/or abstracts will be included in a conference proceedings, and selected essays may be published in a proposed collection for a peer-reviewed press.
Papers/Panel abstracts should be submitted by February 5th, 2009 to Dr. Amy Stackhouse at astackhouse [at] iona.edu or Dr. Dean Defino at ddefino [at] iona.edu. We look forward to a fruitful and collegial experience.
Update (Feb. 16): The call for papers deadline has been extended to March 6, 2009.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 12th, 2008
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The International Trademark Association’s Academic Forum (formerly the Learned Professors Trademark Symposium) will take place Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, 4-6 pm, at the Omni San Diego Hotel (”Conveniently located near the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting venue”). The topic is Protecting Well-Known Marks: At the Crossroads of International and Domestic Legal Reform. Follow link for speakers and paper topics.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 11th, 2008
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Intellectual Property |
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Microsoft Fellowships in Law, Economics, and TechnologyThe University of Michigan Law School’s Center for Law and Economics is offering several post-graduate Fellowships in Law, Economics, and Technology. The Fellowships support research by individuals who finished graduate school (or are about to finish) and are writing on topics in the intersection between law, economics, and technology. Individuals who practiced in these areas and are interested in returning to academia are also encouraged to apply. The purpose of the fellowships is to foster research and interest in areas of Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Internet and Cyberlaw, Health Care Law and Policy, and other areas related to information and technology, with emphasis on economics and empiricism as the disciplines of inquiry. The Fellows are expected to devote their time to their proposed course of research, to be in residence at the Law School in Ann Arbor, and to participate in the Law School’s law-and-economics activities. Fellowships are either for one or two semesters.
Deadline for Application Submission: February 1, 2009.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 10th, 2008
| Law and Technology, Law and Cyberspace, Communications Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Empirical Legal Studies, Health Law, Law and Economics, Intellectual Property |
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Brooklyn
Mark D. Rosen (Chicago Kent Law), From Exclusivity to Concurrency
Florida State
Andrew Hanssen (Montana State Economics), Vertical Integration During the Hollywood Studio Era
Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, & Bioethics Workshop
Scott Hamphill (Columbia Law), Aggregation, Antitrust, and Complex Collusion
Marquette
David Opderbeck (Seton Hill Law), Patents, Trade Secrets, and Social Relations
Michigan Law and Economics
Jennifer Arlen (NYU Law), The Inefficiency of Contractual Liability for Medical Malpractice
Northwestern Law and Economics
Michael Weisbach (Ohio State Finance), Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis
Toronto Health Law and Policy
Jonathan Berger (AIDS Law Project), Institutions Matter: The Right to Health, the Regulation of Medicines and the South African Constitution
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 20th, 2008
| Law and Economics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Antitrust Law, Tax Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property |
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Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the tenth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on May 29-30, 2009, and seek submissions for this meeting. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 9th, 2008
| JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Legal Ethics, Antitrust Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Procedure, Legal Profession, Bankruptcy Law, Tort Law, Securities Law, Intellectual Property, Property Law, Business Law, Tax Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Contract Law |
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On November 7, 2008, the University of California, Davis School of Law inaugurates the Fenwick & West Lecture Series in Technology, Entrepreneurship, Science, and Law (TESLaw) with a symposium on patent law developments and their probable effect on innovation, policy and the economic landscape. Symposium topics will focus on patent reform in Congress, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the courts, with a closing panel discussion on the confluence of these reforms. The symposium also will explore the application of the reforms to the major sectors of the technology industry: information technology and life sciences.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 5th, 2008
| Law and Technology, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Fifth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society will take place Jan. 30 - Feb. 1, 2009, in Huntsville, AL.
This Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the relationships between technology, knowledge and society. The Conference is cross-disciplinary in scope, a meeting point for technologists with a concern for the social and social scientists with a concern for the technological. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on information and communications technologies.
As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 9 October 2008. Future deadlines will be announced on the Conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 30th, 2008
| Law and Cyberspace, Communications Law, Law and Society, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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Drake
Juan E. Mendez (International Center for Transitional Justice)
Florida State
Michael O’Hear (Marquette Law), Explain Yourself: Procedural Reasonableness in Federal Sentencing After Rita v. United States
Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
Darius Lakdawalla (Rand Corporation), The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability
Harvard
Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law)
Michigan Law and Economics
Matt Stephenson (Harvard Law), Political Accountability under Alternative Institutional Regimes
Minnesota Works in Progress
Christopher Springman (Virginia Law), The Emergence of IP Norms in Stand-Up Comedy
New York University Law and Society
Maneesha Deckha (Victoria Law), Racialized Animals and Animalized Cultures: Species, Intersectionality and Posthumanist Justice
Northwesten Law and Economics
Justin McCrary (Berkeley Law), Crime, Punishment, and Myopia
Santa Clara Social Justice Workshop
Joaquin Avila (Seattle University Law), Obstacles to Latina/o Political Empowerment and Solutions
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 18th, 2008
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Rights Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property |
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SMU Law and Citizenship
Gabriel (Jack) Chin (Arizona Law), Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of a Citizenship
Texas
Derek Jinks, Larry Sager, Linda Mullenix, George Dix, John Robertson, Jordan Steiker (Texas Law), Review of 2007 SCOTUS Term
USC
James Spindler (USC Law), IPO Disclosure, Underwriting, Mechanics, and Share Price Behavior
Virginia
Daniel Crane (Yeshiva Law and Chicago Law), Intellectual Liability
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 4th, 2008
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Business Law, Intellectual Property |
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The second World Universities Forum will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, Mumbai, India, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary as one of the leading higher education institutions in India, Jan. 16-18, 2009.
The Forum examines the role and future of the University in a changing world. The 2009 Forum follows our highly successful inaugural conference in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2008. It is ambitious in its intellectual and practical, agenda-setting scope, and broad in its themes.
The deadline for the current call for papers round is Sept. 11, 2008. Check the link for later rounds.
The conference is not explicitly on law, but the themes are broad enough to interest some legal scholars. Topics listed include human rights, international development, and intellectual property.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 2nd, 2008
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Education Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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Professor Shubha Ghosh (University of Wisconsin School of Law) will host a workshop for scholars invited to present papers on the empirics of patent lawyering, the economics of creativity, intellectual property as governing the employment relationship, international migration, and global intellectual property, April 24, 2009. Details pending.
Thanks: IP and IT Conferences.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 20th, 2008
| Law and Technology, Business Law, Intellectual Property |
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We seek papers on food, culture, and the law, written from a variety of perspectives, appropriate for presentation at one or both of the following conferences: the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (Suffolk University Law School, Boston, April 3-4, 2009) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (details for the 2009 conference TBA on the ASFS website). Although we aim to use these panels as a partial foundation for creating the edited collection, we are also happy to consider abstracts and articles from potential contributors who are unable to attend either ASLCH or ASFS. Finished essays should be of a quality suitable for publication with an established university press and reasonably accessible to a multidisciplinary audience of scholars and students of the law, social sciences, and humanities, as well as interested readers outside the academy.
J. Amy Dillard
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Baltimore School of Law
1420 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 15th, 2008
| Law and Society, Comparative Law, Law and Humanities, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Intellectual Property, Health Law, Environmental Law, CONFERENCES |
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The University of La Verne Law Review is seeking submissions for our Volume 30 (2008-2009) Symposium Issue, “The Organic Internet/The Digital Revolutionary.”
The Law Review seeks submissions addressing novel legal issues including, but not limited to, those raised in “The Organic Internet” (free and downloadable at mayfirst.org/organicinternet), such as: Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 22nd, 2008
| Law and Cyberspace, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School (Yale ISP) and the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP) are pleased to announce their fifth interdisciplinary writing competition and call for papers in conjunction with the Third Access to Knowledge (A2K3) Conference taking place on September 8-10, 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland.We invite students, scholars, policy-makers, technologists, activists, and industry representatives to submit papers on access to knowledge (A2K) and communications law and policy for publication by the IJCLP. Submissions must be received by July 24th, 2008, to be considered for the A2K3 writing competition.The authors of the selected papers will be invited to publish their work in a special volume of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy, in memoriam of former IJCLP lead editor Boris Rotenberg.
This year’s writing competition will feature an award sponsored by Kaltura. The Kaltura Prize will be granted to the author of the best submission on a topic relating to digital media remix, open-source business models, collaborative production, democratic culture, or related themes which speak to the identity of Kaltura as the world’s first open-source video platform. The Kaltura Prize will include a cash stipend of $1,000 and funding for travel to and accommodations in Geneva to accept the award at the A2K3 conference.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 18th, 2008
| Communications Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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The San Diego International Law Journal seeks papers on intellectual property law in Asia. A symposium will take place in spring 2009 and the papers will be published in fall 2009. The editors would like to receive all topic submissions by July 16, 2008.
For more information, please e-mail Senior Associate Editor Will Lewis (wd.lewis [at] gmail.com). See also this description of the symposium.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 27th, 2008
| Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property |
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Lancaster University Law School presents Indigenous peoples’ rights in the aftermath of the Declaration: (Intellectual) Property and Self-Determination, Sept. 23, 2008.
Lancaster Human Rights Forum presents a one-day conference exploring indigenous peoples’ rights in the aftermath of the adoption in September 2007 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This event will focus on two contested and complex aspects of indigenous rights: the right to self-determination, and intellectual property rights of indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination was a fundamental area of debate in the negotiations leading up to the acceptance of the Declaration, and continues to generate considerable controversy. The intellectual property rights of indigenous peoples is an evolving area of human rights requiring consideration of the ownership of knowledge, informed consent and appropriate sharing of the economic benefits deriving from the commercialisation of traditional knowledge.This event will feature speakers from Brunel, Liverpool, and Leeds Universities, from the departments of Law, Geography and CESAGen at Lancaster, and from Minority Rights Group International.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 25th, 2008
| International Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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SCRIPTed - A Journal of Law, Technology & Society presents Governance of New Technologies: The Transformation of Medicine, Information Technology and Intellectual Property, An International Interdisciplinary Conference, March 29-31, 2009, at the University of Edinburgh. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 1, 2008. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 11th, 2008
| Communications Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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Tulane University Law School hosts the 6th Annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium Oct. 3-4, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Aug. 15, 2008. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 3rd, 2008
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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