Governance of New Technologies: The Transformation of Medicine, Information Technology and Intellectual Property An International Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by SCRIPTedMarch 29-31, 2009University of Edinburgh 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 Read more…
VPN Virtual Policy ’08: A conference on innovation and governance in virtual worlds. 22- 23 July: BERR, 1 Victoria Street, London, UK Virtual Policy 08 is set to be a land mark event focusing on global virtual worlds sited in a European legal and regulatory context. The key policy themes Read more…
The always excellent Pangloss has pointed out that we have been nominated for a blogging award! Computer Weekly has short-listed ten UK IT-related blawgs in the category IT Law and Governance, so here is my bid to fame and Web 2.0 fortune: inLaw Blogs The nominees are: The Orange Rag: Read more…
SCRIPT – a law and technology research centre at the University of Edinburgh, School of Law – is seeking to recruit a suitably-qualified candidate to undertake a fully-funded PhD studentship. This is a full-time, full maintenance, three-year position sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which also supports the Read more…
The month of May has been rather crazy time here at TechnoLlama. With knit-gate and the killer totems of Stormwind, readership figures have risen like the beacons of Minas Morgul. Technorati now has me at 72 incoming links, which means that I have finally broken into the top 100,000 blogs Read more…
GIKIIIOxford Internet InstituteSeptember 24-25, 2008 We are glad to announce the third edition of GikII (appropriately renamed GikIII), which will take place 24-25 September 2008 at the Oxford Internet Institute in, errr… Oxford! GikII is so cutting edge that it is the nano-blade of workshops, so expect all sorts of Read more…
The April 2008 issue of SCRIPTed is now live. This issue is filled with excellent material. There are some very relevant and timely articles on the P2P debate, and also on the German Constitutional Court decision with regards to Trojans. Another very intriguing article about trade marks and the No Read more…
Habitual readers may be interested in knowing that I will soon be joining the ranks of Newstex, a blog syndication service that aggregates content and sells it to legal information services such as LexisNexis, EBSCO, CanWest MediaWorks, Thomson Financial, and Thomson Business Intelligence. I am quite chuffed by their invitation Read more…
Second COMMUNIA workshop: Vilnius, Lithuania, 31/03/08 Ethical Public Domain: Debate of Questionable Practices – this is the title for the Second COMMUNIA workshop to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania on Monday 31 March 2008 from 8:30 to 18. The morning session will be held at ELTA press center, with registration Read more…
BILETA 2008 – The 23rd Annual ConferenceThursday 27th March, 16.15 – 17.30Glasgow Caledonian UniversityOpen Access to Legal Information – A Panel and Open Discussion Organised by SCRIPTed The ‘Open Access to Legal Information’ session will comprise a panel, each member of which will discuss an element of open access and Read more…