SCRIPT-ed conference

Apologies to anyone who has seen this before, but this is a potentially fantastic conference, worthy of re-promotion! The editors of the well-known online SCRIPT-ed journal, which comes out of the AHRC/SCRIPT Centre at Edinburgh University, have decided to put on a conference playing especially to their established strengths in cutting edge IT and IP law and medical/biotechnology law.

Although the CFP is past, there is still room to squeeze one or two more papers into the programme if you hurry - they would like more US and Canadian speakers especially. Pangloss will be there (as an Editor of SCRIPT-ed, no escape) - probably giving a paper on either phishing or suicide websites. (Would readers like to vote for which they would prefer to hear?)

GOVERNANCE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES:
THE TRANSFORMATION OF MEDICINE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

An International Interdisciplinary Conference
March 29-31, 2009
University of Edinburgh

BROAD THEMES

The conference will focus on evolving and emerging technologies and new-technology-driven practices and their impact on the overlapping fields of (1) healthcare, (2) information technology and (3) intellectual property, each of which are increasingly important in the post-genomic and post-AI world, with its heavy reliance on new technologies and their distribution.

The keynote speakers are:

Stream 1 ‘Medicine and Healthcare’:
Professor Bartha Maria Knoppers, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
“Population Biobanks: International Collaboration and Access”

Stream 2 ‘Information and Communication Technology’:
Professor Dan Hunter, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
“Information Monoculture”

Stream 3 ‘Intellectual Property’:
Dr Francis Gurry, Deputy Director World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
“The Future Direction of the International Patent System”

More details at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/conference09/index.asp . Particular queries should go to .