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
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 13th, 2012
| Law and Cyberspace, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property |
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The World Jurist Association presents Law and Technology: Privacy and Data Security in the Digital Age April 22-24, 2012. This conference will be co-located with the International Municipal Lawyers Association’s (IMLA’s) mid-year seminar at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, in Washington, DC.
The Programming Committee is now accepting proposals from qualified speakers. The submission deadline is March 16, 2012. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 27th, 2011
| Law and Cyberspace, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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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 UALR Law Review is calling for the submission of articles for its upcoming Ben J. Altheimer Paper Symposium, eConflicts Resolved: Evaluations of Legal Solutions to Information-Age Conflicts, which is scheduled for publication in May 2012. The deadline is Jan. 31, 2012. The editors request interested authors let them know of their intent to submit. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 30th, 2011
| Law and Cyberspace, Civil Procedure, Alternative Dispute Resolution, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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GW Law’s Government Procurement Law Program presents Law and Technology in the Federal Market Dec. 1, 2011. “The event will focus on emerging issues in the federal information technology market with senior members of the business, law, and academic communities.” mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 17th, 2011
| Law and Cyberspace, Law and Technology, Government Law, 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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The University of Miami School of Law seeks submissions for “We Robot” – an inaugural conference on legal and policy issues relating to robotics to be held in Coral Gables, Florida on Apr. 21 & 22, 2012. The school invites contributions by academics, practitioners, and industry in the form of scholarly papers or presentations of relevant projects. Proposals should be sent to robots[at]law.miami.edu by Jan. 12, 2012 consisting of : an up to three-page synopsis of the paper or presentation, and the author’s c.v.
Robotics seems increasingly likely to become a transformative technology. This conference will build on existing scholarship exploring the role of robotics to examine how the increasing sophistication of robots and their widespread deployment everywhere from the home, to hospitals, to public spaces, and even to the battlefield disrupts existing legal regimes or requires rethinking of various policy issues.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2011
| Law and Cyberspace, Law and Philosophy, Law and Technology, Law and Science, CALLS FOR PAPERS, 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 Journal of Telecommunication and Broadcasting Law of the National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata, India is inviting submissions for its inaugural issue to be published in July 2012. Submissions are due by Jan. 8, 2012. Email jtbl[at]nujs.edu with questions.
The Journal of Telecommunication and Broadcasting Law (JTBL) is an international peer-reviewed, student-edited journal of National University of Juridical Sciences, India. Dedicated to pioneer legal scholarship in the field of telecommunication and broadcasting laws and addressing a global scholarly community, JTBL strives to publish relevant research on said disciplines. The Journal encourages deliberations on subjects of interdisciplinary nature and would include review of laws and policies involved in the field.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 9th, 2011
| Communications Law, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Technology, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law |
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The 2011 International Conference on Ubiquitous Learning will be held Nov. 11-12, 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley. The Ubiquitous Learning Conference examines the ways in which the affordances of new technologies are changing how, where and when learning takes place. It considers, for example, how computing and networking devices might benefit learning not only in the classroom but well beyond the times and places traditionally considered the purview of education.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is Sep. 6, 2011. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 30th, 2011
| Law and Cyberspace, Law Librarianship, Legal Education, 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 UDC Law Review will host “Smartphones and the Fourth Amendment: The Future of Privacy in Our Hands” in spring 2012. Submissions are due Sept. 30, 2011. The full call for papers follows the jump. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 13th, 2011
| Law and Cyberspace, Law and Technology, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Criminal Law, 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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Video of International Law and the Changing Face of War (June 20-22, 2010) is available on the U.S. Naval War College’s website. The event was hosted by the International Law Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies and co-sponsored by the University of Texas School of Law, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Sanremo, Italy, and the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict, American Society of International Law, with support from the Naval War College Foundation and Israel Yearbook on Human Rights.
Papers will soon be published in the International Law Studies (Blue Book) Series, which is available in PDF 1979-date.
The proceedings of this year’s conference—Non-international Armed Conflict in the 21st Century (June 21-23, 2011)—will also be recorded and posted on the website. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 16th, 2011
| Law and Cyberspace, National Security Law, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) (”a global network for scholars of Internet governance”) presents the GigaNet Sixth Annual Symposium in cooperation with Research ICT Africa. The event will take place Sept. 26, 2011, in Nairobi, Kenya (one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in the same city).
Organizers encourage submissions on the following topics:
- The first 5 years of the IGF: Taking stock and the way forward
- Developing countries perspectives on internet governance
- New approaches to theorizing internet governance
- Between global and local: the question of territory in internet governance
- Freedom of Expression / Right to Information
- New approaches to Human Rights on the Internet
- Internet governance and political uprising
- International relations and cyber-security
- Online privacy and dataveillance
- Cloud Governance
Other proposals on more general questions of Global Internet Governance will also be considered.
Abstracts are due by July 15, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 7th, 2011
| Law and Cyberspace, Human Rights Law, National Security Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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The American Antitrust Institute will host its 12th annual national conference, International Economics for Antitrusters: Learning from Two Decades of Deep Globalization, June 23, 2011.
The day before the conference (June 22, 2011), AAI hosts an invitational symposium, Antitrust Challenge of Multi-Channel Distribution in the Internet Age. Contact AAI for information about participating.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 2nd, 2011
| Law and Cyberspace, Law and Economics, Antitrust Law, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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Policy & Internet, the first major peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal investigating the impact of the Internet on public policy, is inviting submissions for a special issue on Internet taxation, to be published in October 2011. The submission deadline is May 31, 2011. sr
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 29th, 2011
| Law and Cyberspace, Law and Technology, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Tax Law |
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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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