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Call for Papers: European Society of International Law 4th Biennial Conference

Submissions are invited for the 4th Biennial Conference European Society of International Law (ESIL) in Cambridge, England on 2-4 September 2010. This year’s theme is “International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal.” The working languages of the conference are English and French. The deadline for submissions of abstracts is 22 January 2010.

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Call for Nominations: Frank Carrington Crime Victim Attorney Award

Call for nominations for the Frank Carrington Crime Victim Attorney Award. The nominee must be a U.S. attorney, legal service provider, or organization who either: (1) represented victims in criminal, juvenile, or appellate courts, or (2) worked to promote the rights of victims in the criminal justice system. The late attorney Frank Carrington worked to […]

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FTC Workshop: Panel on Emerging Business Models for Online Journalism and Intellectual Property Rights

Nearly five years after the Grokster case transformed the freewheeling world of free online music sharing into the fee-based business model of iTunes, newspapers are arguing for similar legal enforcement of their intellectual property rights online. The enemy is no longer peer-to-peer (P2P) software. Rather, the new alleged enemy is “news aggregators,” such as Google […]

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FTC Workshop on Journalism and the Internet: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is hosting a two-day “Workshop on Journalism and the Internet” in Washington, D.C. The workshop serves as a forum for industry leaders, consumer advocates, academics, and lawyers to advise the FTC on possible changes to copyright law, antitrust law, and tax policy. The FTC convened the workshop in response […]

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