Call for Papers: Developing a cost-benefit framework for data policy

The Program on Economics & Privacy (PEP) at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and the Future of Privacy Forum are seeking papers to explore the development of a benefit-cost framework in privacy policy.

Selected submissions will be presented at the Fifth Annual Public Policy Symposium on the Law & Economics of Privacy and Data Security Policy, on June 8, 2017, at the Antonin Scalia Law School, and published in a special symposium issue of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy.

Send an abstract outlining your proposed paper to papersubmissions@fpf.org by April 15, 2017.

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Topics: Calls for Papers; Conferences & Symposia; Privacy Law. 

 

Symposium: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Law in the Financial Services Sector

Fordham University School of Law hosts Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Law in the Financial Services Sector on February 28, 2017.  Sessions include AI and Machine Learning for Regulatory Compliance and AI and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity and Fraud Detection.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Privacy Law; Technology Law; Technology Trends.

Conference: Data Security Conference

The University of Notre Dame‘s John J. Reilly Center will host the Data Security Conference on February 24, 2017.  The “conference will focus on legal and ethical issues in data security, with a particular focus on institutional design and regulatory strategy.”

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Intellectual Property Law; Privacy Law. 

Conference: Economics of Digital Information Policy

The Program on Economics & Privacy (PEP) at Antonin Scalia Law School will host a scholars conference on the economics of digital information policy on April 28, 2017 in Arlington, VA.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Economics & The Law; Privacy Law. 

Conference: Cyber, Security & Surveillance: Truth & Consequences

Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) will hold its annual national security conference, Cyber, Security & Surveillance: Truth & Consequences, from February 24-25, 2017.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Law & Public Policy; Privacy Law. 

Conference: Intellectual Property, Private Law, and the Supreme Court

The Project on the Foundations of Private Law at Harvard Law School and the Intellectual Property Law Program at the George Washington University Law School present Intellectual Property, Private Law, and the Supreme Court on March 10, 2017, at the George Washington University Law School.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Intellectual Property Law; Privacy Law. 

Conference: 6th Annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum

The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT) presents the 6th Annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum on March 24, 2017, at the Four Seasons in East Palo Alto, CA.

This full day conference brings together in-house counsel from leading tech companies, practicing lawyers, technologists, privacy advocates and academics. Faculty from the UC Berkeley School of Law will share their latest research and analysis on trans-Atlantic data flows, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and government access demands. Leading privacy experts from law firms and tech companies will offer fresh insight and practical advice on these and other urgent privacy challenges.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Intellectual Property Law; Privacy Law; Technology Law.

Call for Papers: 10th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference

The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology is hosting its 10th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference on June 1-2, 2017 in Berkeley, CA.  Those wishing to submit a paper must submit an abstract by January 20, 2017.

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Topics: Calls for Papers; Conferences & Symposia; Privacy Law. 

Conference: High Tech, Trade Secrets and The Defense of Trade Secrets Act: Does DTSA Change the Game?

The Santa Clara Law High Tech Law Institute and the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office host High Tech, Trade Secrets and The Defense of Trade Secrets Act: Does DTSA Change the Game? on February 3, 2017.

Topics include

• What are Trade Secrets, and how valuable are they to high tech companies?
• Criminal Prosecution of Trade Secret Theft: How does the DTSA change things?
• Anatomy of a Criminal Trade Secrets Theft Case
• Civil Trade Secret Cases: Issues to Consider, and What has Changed under DTSA? Protecting Your Trade Secrets

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Privacy Law. 

Call for Papers: International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law

The International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law (ISRCL) announces that the 29th International Conference, Protecting Privacy: Domestic and International Criminal Justice Responses to Crimes Against Personal Privacy and the Balance Between Individual Privacy and Collective Security, which will be held in Halifax, Canada in 2016.  To advance the themes of the conference, the Society invites persons interested in presenting a paper, participating in a plenary or workshop, or who wish to propose a workshop, to submit a short abstract or workshop concept for consideration by the organizing committee.  The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 1, 2016.

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Topics: Calls for Papers; Conferences & Symposia; Criminal Law; International Law; Privacy Law.