Participants

If you plan on attending and would like to be added as a participant, please send your name, affiliation, and a short proposal for an unconference session to innovate.activate@nyls.edu.

Confirmed Participants

Claude Aiken (Federal Communications Commission)
Kristin Antin (New Tactics in Human Rights)
Patricia Aufderheide (Center for Social Media, American University School of Communication)
Jonah Bossewitch (Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning)
Jonathan Band (policybandwidth)
Fred Benenson (Kickstarter)
Nicholas Bramble (Information Society Project, Yale Law School)
Sara Crager (Universities Allied for Essential Medicines)
Kenneth Crews (Copyright Advisory Office, Columbia University Libraries)
Laura Denardis (Information Society Project, Yale Law School)
Niva Elkin-Koren (Faculty of Law, Haifa University)
Eric Faden (Bucknell University)
Karl Fogel (QuestionCopyright.org)
Leanne Gabinelli (The Public Index, New York Law School)
Ethan Guillen (Universities Allied for Essential Medicines)
Lital Helman (Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Columbia Law School)
C. Scott Hemphill (Columbia Law School)
Jonathan Hill (Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Pace University)
Dan Hunter (Institute for Information Law & Policy, New York Law School)
Kate James (MIT OpenCourseWare)
Amy Kapczynski (UC Berkeley School of Law)
Molly Land (Institute for Information Law & Policy, New York Law School)
David Levine (Elon University School of Law)
Joly MacFie (New York Greater Metropolitan Area Chapter of the Internet Society)
Ben Moskowitz (Open Video Alliance)
Beth Simone Noveck (United States Deputy CTO; Director, White House Open Government Initiative)
Nina Paley (Parsons School of Design)
Nelson Pavlosky (Students for Free Culture)
Frank Pasquale (Seton Hall University School of Law)
Catherine Rhodes (Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, University of Manchester School of Law)
Manny Schecter (IBM Corporation)
Jason Schultz (UC Berkeley School of Law)
Stephen Schultze (Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University)
Lea Shaver (Hofstra Law School)
Derek Slater (Google)
Drew Smith (The Public Index, New York Law School)
William Stock (IBM Corporation)
Victoria Stodden (Columbia University)
Elizabeth Townsend Gard (Center for Intellectual Property Law and Culture, Tulane Law School)
Baskut Tuncak (Center for International Environmental Law)
Lindsey Weeramuni (MIT OpenCourseWare)
Christopher Wong (Institute for Information Law & Policy, New York Law School)
Glover Wright (Centre for Internet and Society)
Peter Yu (Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School)

Unkeynote

To kick off Innovate / Activate, Dan Hunter, Director of the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School, will sit down for a chat with three of the most integral and influential figures in the access to knowledge movement: Professors Amy Kapczynski, Lea Shaver, and Niva Elkin-Koren.  

Dan Hunter is the Director of the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School.  He is an expert in internet law, IP, and artificial intelligence and cognitive science models of law.  He focuses on the intersection of computers and law, as well as the law governing fashion.  He was one of the first scholars to examine the legal framework of virtual worlds.  He has also co-founded the scholarly blog Terra Nova, and run the State of Play conference series since 2006.  His current projects include the examination of the economics and laws relating to user-generated content, and the social significance of luxury handbags.  

Amy Kapczynski is an Assistant Professor of Law at UC Berkeley Law School, currently visiting at Yale Law School.  She is known far and wide as one of the most important people in the access to medicines movement, having worked on issues related to access to medicines for the past decade.  In 2001, as a law student, she led the access to medicines campaign that resulted in Yale and Bristol-Myers Squibb pledging not to enforce the patent on the HIV drug d4T, the first time a pharmaceutical company had ever given up patent control on an AIDS medicine.  Her current research addresses the implications of the propertization of information in global perspective, and the relationship between law and social movements.  Her most recent publication is Harmonization and its Discontents: A Case Study of TRIPS Implementation in India's Pharmaceutical Sector, 97 Cal. L. Rev. 1571 (2009).  Forthcoming is a co-edited volume entitled Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property.

Lea Shaver is an Associate Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School where she teaches IP and transnational law.  Prior to joining the faculty at Hofstra Law School, she was an Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.  While there she served as a resident fellow of the Information Society Project, where she directed a research program in Access to Knowledge.  As part of this work, she oversaw research on IP and development in seven countries and organized the Yale ISP's Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference.  She is the editor of Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development and the co-editor of Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development.   

Niva Elkin-Koren is the Dean of the University of Haifa Faculty of Law, where she founded the Haifa Center for Law & Technology. Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production and dissemination of information. She has written and spoken extensively about the privatization of information policy, copyright law and democratic theory, the effects of cyberspace on the economic analysis of law, liability of information intermediaries, the regulation of search engines, and the legal strategies for enhancing the public domain.

Lunch Keynote

Dr. Catherine Rhodes
Research Fellow in Ethics of Science
Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation
University of Manchester School of Law

Catherine joined the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (iSEI) in November 2008. One of her first tasks for the Institute was to develop a draft of the Manchester Manifesto, to serve as the basis for final discussions on creating a consensus document on ownership of science. The Manifesto was launched in November 2009.  Catherine continues to work on issues relating to management of innovation, including, for example on intellectual property rights and academic freedom.

In addition to this work, Catherine’s rersearch interests relate to the international governance of biotechnology (and science more generally). This has included recent work examining: how international organizations cooperate on issues of common concern, particularly looking at governance of genetic resources and of biofuels; the meaning and content of scientific responsibility at the international level; and science, technology and sustainable development. Catherine also continues to follow developments in the 37 international regulations of relevance to the control of biotechnology, publishing regular information on her website www.genomics-gateway.net.

Prior to joining iSEI, Catherine was a research fellow in the Peace Studies Department at Bradford University where, as part of a Project to Strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention, she assessed coherence among the international regulations relevant to governance of the biotechnology revolution. A book based on this work – International Governance of Biotechnology: Needs, Problems and Potential – will be published by Bloomsbury Academic this November under a Creative Commons licence. Catherine has also served as a visiting fellow at the Brocher Foundation, Geneva and has worked as a regulatory consultant for LGC Ltd on a European Commission project on biotechnology regulation.

Organizing Committee

Dan Hunter, Director, IILP, New York Law School
Christopher Wong, Innovate / Activate Chair, IILP, New York Law School
Christina Segro, Innovate / Activate Coordinator, IILP, New York Law School '12 

 

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