Innovate/Activate Unconference on September 24-25
Save the date for Innovate/Activate: An Unconference on Intellectual Property and Activism, scheduled for September 24-25, 2010 at New York Law School. Special thanks to Chris Wong for his efforts organizing this interesting event, presented by the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School and co-organized by the Information Society Project [...]
Yale ISP at Global Internet Governance Scholars’ Workshop
Yale ISP Executive Director Dr. Laura DeNardis is presenting this weekend at the Third International Workshop on Global Internet Governance at McGill University in Montreal (QC) Canada. The workshop is being organized by the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), a scholarly community founded in spring of 2006 in conjunction with the United Nations Internet [...]
Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group May 5
The next Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholars Working Group will take place on Wednesday, May 5, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm in Conference Room 202 at the Berkman Center, located at 23 Everett St 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA. Jeffrey Warren will talk about “Grassroots Mapping Projects”; Nicholas Bramble will discuss “A Diverse and Antagonistic Information Age?”; and David [...]
Beth Noveck on Open Government April 23
You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring Beth Noveck discussing “Open Government and the First Amendment: Strengthening our Democracy through Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration” on Friday, April 23 at 12:15 p.m. in Room 128 of Yale Law School. This event is part of the Liberty Tree First Amendment Online [...]
Panel on States, Markets, and Inequality in Reprogenetics
Please join us on April 23 at 3:00 p.m. for a special Information Society Project panel exploring some of the challenges to traditional reproductive rights arguments that are posed by the availability of new reproductive technologies. Entitled, Power Plays: States, Markets, and Inequality in Reprogenetics, the panel will be moderated by ISP Senior Fellow Priscilla [...]
Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman Discusses Independent and Citizen Journalism April 15
Amy Goodman, the founder of Democracy Now! will discuss her latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier on Thursday, April 15, at 4:00 p.m. in room 127 at Yale Law School. The theme of her talk will be the power of independent journalism in the struggle for a better world. The talk is [...]
David Post April 9 in Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium
David Post will discuss “Can We Defend Free Speech on the Net?” on Friday, April 9 at 12:10 p.m. in Room 128 of Yale Law School. This event is part of the Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium, sponsored by the Liberty Tree Initiative, the McCormick Foundation, and the First Amendment Center.
Can We Defend Free [...]
LAW ON DISPLAY: The Digital Transformation of Legal Persuasion and Judgment
The Yale Information Society Project is pleased to announce a book talk with Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel on April 13 at 4:00 p.m. The event will take place at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale located at 80 Wall Street. The event is being sponsored by Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish [...]
Nicholas Bramble on “Should the FCC Let AT&T Be? Standing on the Shoulders of Weary Giants of Flesh and Steel”
You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring Nicholas Bramble discussing “Should the FCC Let AT&T Be? Standing on the Shoulders of Weary Giants of Flesh and Steel” on Friday, April 2 at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School.
Should the FCC Let AT&T Be? Standing on [...]
Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group March 23
The next Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholars Working Group will take place on Tuesday, March 23 at 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm in Room B48 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, located just across York Street from Yale Law School in New Haven, CT. The session theme is “Infrastructures, ICTs, Imagination.” RSVP to Ben Peters at bjp2108@columbia.edu.
Alien Infrastructures: [...]
March 5 James Grimmelmann on Google Books Settlement
You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring James Grimmelmann discussing the Google Books settlement on Friday, March 5 at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School. James, an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School and an ISP Affiliated Fellow, will be discussing “The Google [...]
Christina Mulligan on “Principles for Radical Copyright Reform”
You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project lunch speaker series featuring Christina Mulligan discussing “Principles for Radical Copyright Reform” on Friday, March 26 (rescheduled from a snowy February 26) at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School.
Principles for Radical Copyright Reform
What’s wrong with copyright law? Currently, it is illegal to watch [...]
Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig
Yale Students for Free Culture and the Yale Information Society Project are hosting a live screening of a global webcast of a talk by Lawrence Lessig convened by the Open Video Alliance and Harvard’s Berkman Center. The talk is being broadcast Thursday, February 25th from 6:00 to 7:30 EST, live from Cambridge, MA.
The 45 minute [...]
