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Title:  : Fordham Law & Information Society Symposium

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From: Joel Reidenberg <reidenberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: Fordham Law School
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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 “Calendar/Events” from the homepage, then “Conferences/Lectures/CLE”)
    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;template=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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