Cato conference on Oct. 21 on Internet jurisdiction, governance

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Cato conference on Net governance (10/21)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:23:12 -0400
From: "Adam Thierer" <athierer () cato org>
To: <declan () well com>

Declan:
    Given your interest in these issues, I thought you might be interested 
in possibly attending our October 21st event on Internet jurisdiction & 
governance. Or perhaps you could forward this invite along to your Politech 
subscribers. I think they would be very interested in attending. The event 
is free of charge and open to the public. And we have a great group of 
speakers and keynoters. The event invite is attached. Many thanks,  Adam 
Thierer

To attend to the Oct. 21st conference: 
<http://www.cato.org/events/techconf03/>http://www.cato.org/events/techconf03/
To order the new book: 
<http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&pid=1441156>http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&pid=1441156

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Who Rules the Net?
Debating Internet
Jurisdiction and Governance

The Cato Institute's Seventh Annual
TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY CONFERENCE

Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Cato Institute * F. A. Hayek Auditorium
Washington, D.C.

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7:30-8:00 a.m. Registration

8:00-8:10 a.m. Welcoming Remarks

Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Director of Technology Policy, Cato Institute

Adam D. Thierer, Director of Telecommunications Studies, Cato Institute

8:10-8:55 a.m. Opening Keynote Address

Hon. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.), Chairman, House Policy Committee

9:00-10:30 a.m. PANEL 1: "Governance: Debating the Rise of Legal and 
Technological Borders on an Open Internet"

Tim Wu, University of Virginia Law School

David Post, Temple University Law School

Bruce Kobayashi, George Mason University School of Law

Peter Trooboff, Covington & Burling

Gary Jackson, Quova

10:30-10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. PANEL 2: "Who Rules? Current Clashes and the Future 
of Online Jurisdiction"

Robert Corn-Revere, Davis Wright Tremaine

Kurt Wimmer, Covington & Burling

Michael Greve, American Enterprise Institute

Jonathan Band, Morrison & Foerster

Marc Pearl, IT Policy Solutions

12:00-12:45 p.m. Luncheon Address

Jeffrey J. Kovar, U. S. Department of State Chief U. S. Negotiator, Hague 
Convention, and Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law

12:45 p.m.- Lunch


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About the Conference

Many people have praised the Internet for its ubiquitous and "borderless" 
nature and argued that this global medium is revolutionary. Indeed, the 
World Wide Web increasingly challenges traditional concepts of 
jurisdiction, governance, and sovereignty. In the universe of cyberspace 
there are no passports, and geography is often treated as a meaningless 
concept.

But does that mean that traditional concepts of jurisdiction and governance 
are obsolete? When legal disputes arise in cyberspace, or when governments 
attempt to apply clashing legal standards or cultural norms to the 
Internet, how are such matters to be adjudicated? The variance in 
regulatory preferences from country to country is highlighted by policy 
disputes over free speech and libel, privacy, intellectual property, 
antitrust policy, and domain name registration, among other things. Myriad 
laws and regulations for "real" space are now being directly challenged by 
the rise of the parallel electronic universe known as cyberspace. Who is 
responsible for setting the standards in cyberspace? Is a "UN for the 
Internet" or a multinational treaty appropriate? If not, whose standards 
should govern cross-border cyber disputes? Are different standards 
appropriate for cyberspace and "real" space? Those nagging questions are 
being posed with increasing frequency.

This year's Technology & Society conference marks the release of the new 
Cato book 
<http://cato-subscriptions.org/c.html?rtr=on&s=77z,3nrt,94v,df7u,3vf9,jbf3,ipqz>Who 
Rules the Net? Internet Governance and Jurisdiction. The conference will 
explore the newest developments in Internet jurisdiction and assess the 
future of public policy online.

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