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Professor Carole Hafner chairs conference on Law and Information Technology
- September, 2006
CCIS faculty member Carole Hafner, Director of NU's Information Science
program, is co-chair (with Dean Maureen O'Rourke of the Boston University
Law School) of LawTech 2006, to be held October 9-11 at the MIT Faculty
Club.
This conference brings together experts in the legal and legal informatics
fields for a series of research papers and tutorial presentations.
Professor Dan L. Burk of the University of Minnesota Law School will deliver
the keynote speech on "Owning Avatars: Legal Control of Human and Non-human
Data Representations." The conference also features sessions on: Digital
Rights Management Technologies; Computer-assisted Dispute Resolution;
Interpretation of Software Patents; Legal Issues in Nano- and
Bio-Technology; Legal Protection for Database Contents; and Emerging Legal
Information Technologies.
A complete program can be found at:
www.iasted.org/conferences/home-545.html.
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