: Fordham Law & Information Society Symposium

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:23:00 -0500
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Subject: Fordham Law & Information Society Symposium

On April 7-8th, Fordham Law School is hosting an academic symposium on "Law
and the Information Society" that IPers might find of interest.  Please find
the announcement and registration information below.   The papers will be
published in the Fordham Law Review next year at the beginning of Fordham
Law School's Centennial Anniversary Year.

Regards,

Joel Reidenberg

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Law and the Information Society
Fordham University School of Law
 April 7-8, 2005 
 
Sponsored by: 
            Fordham Law Review
            Fordham University School of Law
            

About the Symposium
The emergence of our Information Society over the last twenty years has
generated a burgeoning academic literature and wide-ranging theoretical
debate about the legal challenges that information technologies pose for
society.  In general, the debate and the literature have focused on specific
areas such as privacy or intellectual property.  This symposium seeks to
make a broad examination across a range of related areas that will have both
topical relevance and enduring merit. The symposium will bring together the
leading academic scholars to consider key topics of information law and
policy in the context of societal values.  This approach will make a major
contribution to our understanding of the role that public values play in the
law for the Information Society.


 April 7, 2005 
 
8:15 AM: Registration/CLE Information
 
9:15 AM: Welcome/Opening Remarks
 
WILLIAM MICHAEL TREANOR
Dean and Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law
 
JOEL R. REIDENBERG 
Professor of Law 
Fordham University School of Law
 
9:30 ­ 11:00 Panel 1
 
Intellectual Property & Public Values
 
This panel will explore the relationship between public values and
intellectual property rights.  What are the challenges for intellectual
property rights in the information economy? Do digital rights management
tools and anti-circumvention rules privatize intellectual property rights?
How extensively should the law protect information and information products?
How should intellectual property rights treat the public domain?
 
JULIE COHEN 
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
 
NIVA ELKIN-KOREN 
Professor, University of Haifa
 
JAY P. KESAN 
Professor & Director, Program in Intellectual Property & Technology Law,
University of Illinois College of Law
 
POLK WAGNER 
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School
 
HUGH C. HANSEN (Moderator)
Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
 
 
11:20 ­ 12:50 Panel 2
 
Information Regulation & the Freedom of Expression
 
This panel will explore the contours of the regulation of information and
freedom of expression.   Can information products be regulated consistently
with the First Amendment?  What limits might be imposed on privacy
protection, intellectual property, and competitive information? Is there a
distinction between the regulation of commercial speech and the regulation
of a commericial transactions involving information?   How do international
principles of free expression and harmful or illicit content appy in the
online environmnet?  What norms might a community impose?
 
 
DAVID MCGOWAN 
Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
 
BETH NOVECK 
Associate Professor of Law, Director, Institute for Information Law and
Policy; Director, Democracy Design Workshop, New York Law School
 
NEIL RICHARDS 
Associate Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
 
LIOR JACOB STRAHILEVITZ
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Law School
 
ABNER S. GREENE (Moderator)
Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
 
 
1:00 ­ 2:15 Lunch 
 
2:15 -3:45 Panel 3 
 
Information Technology & International Trade
 
This panel will consider the benefits and the burdens of the international
trade regime for information technology.  What challenges do information
technologies create for the WTO system?  What does the WTO system mean for
information technologies? How will disputes over information technologies be
resolved? 
 
FABIEN GELINAS 
Associate Professor of Law; Director, Institute of Comparative Law, McGill
University, Faculty of Law
 
DANIEL J. GERVAIS 
Vice-Dean (Research), University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
 
RUTH OKEDIJI 
William L. Prosser Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
 
CHANTAL THOMAS (Moderator)
Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
 
 
4:00 ­ 5:30 Panel 4
 
Responsibility & Liability on the Internet
 
This panel will explore issues of liability for activities on the Internet.
Should intermediaries have liability for third party content? Why is
liability online treated differently for violations of intellectual property
rights than for other forms of illegal content?  What responsibilities are
there for computer security and negligence?
 
SUSAN CRAWFORD 
Assistant Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School
 
MICHAEL GEIST 
Canada Research Chair in Internet & E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa,
Faculty of Law 
 
JONATHAN ZITTRAIN 
Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
 
MADELINE SCHACHTER (Moderator)
Time Warner Book Group; Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham University School
of Law 
 
 
5:30 PM Cocktail Reception
  
 
April 8, 2005 
 
8:30 AM: Registration/CLE Information
 
9:30 ­ 11:00 Panel 5
 
Market Regulation & Innovation
 
This panel will explore the role and impact of market regulation on
innovation.   How do telecommunications regulations contribute to innovation
in new technologies and the creation of new industries?  What role does
intellectual property regulation play in market innovation?  What role do
standards organizations and their rules have in the promotion of the
information economy?   What unexpected rules affect or create new
information markets?
 
DAN BURK 
Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law
School 
 
MARK R. PATTERSON 
Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
 
PHIL WEISER 
Associate Professor of Law & Technology, University of Colorado School of
Law 
 
TIM WU 
Associate Professor, Virginia Law School; Visiting Professor, University of
Chicago Law School 
 
ROBERT R. BRUCE (Moderator)
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Digital Strategies, Tuck School of
Business Administration, Dartmouth; Partner (retired), Debevoise & Plimpton
 
11:20 -12:50 Panel 6
 
The Co-existence of Privacy & Security
This panel will explore the intersection of privacy and security.   How has
privacy evolved in the digital environment?  Can privacy co-exist with law
enforcement needs?  Can surveillance and anonymity be reconciled in a
dangerous world?  Can there be privacy in public places? What limits should
exist on the mixing of private and public sector data?
 
ORIN KERR 
Associate Professor, George Washington University Law School
 
HELEN F. NISSENBAUM
Associate Professor, Dept. of Culture & Communications; Faculty Fellow,
Information Law Institute, New York University Law School
 
JOEL R. REIDENBERG 
Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
 
DANIEL J. SOLOVE 
Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
 
SONIA S. KATYAL (Moderator)
Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law


Conference Location:
James B.M. McNally Amphitheatre
Fordham University School of Law
140 West 62nd Street
New York, NY 10023 
(Just one block south of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts)

Registration:
ON-LINE  http://law.fordham.edu/cle.htm
  (Click on ³Calendar/Events² from the homepage, then
³Conferences/Lectures/CLE²)
    http://law.fordham.edu/ihtml/register.ihtml?id=4593&max=300&template=cle
<http://law.fordham.edu/ihtml/register.ihtml?id=4593&amp;max=300&amp;templat
e=cle> 
-Conference Only‹Free and open to the public
-Conference and Lunch‹$15
-Conference, Lunch & 9 non-transitional, professional practice NYS CLE
credits‹$145
  ($125 for Public Interest Attorneys, Academics & Fordham Law alumni)

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