Institute for Information Law & Policy

Research and Activities:

Lunch Colloquia meet every Wednesday in the summer to explore and discuss issues in information, intellectual property and technology law and policy with scholars and practitioners in the field.  We meet both at New York Law School and at restaurants in Tribeca and Chinatown.

Annual Conference: The State of Play: Games, Society and the Law  This international conference will explore massive multi-player online gaming and the law.  In collaboration with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.  

The PlayGroup  where interdisciplinary participants will convene as part of an ongoing workshop to design a massive multi-player interactive game environment for democratic practice.

Information Law Design Projects

eRulemaking Whitepaper: Information and Communication Mapping Members of the Institute are working with the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Transportation on various aspects of their eRulemaking Initiative. Summer Research Fellows are drafting a Whitepaper on the legal issues raised by putting federal agency rulemaking on-line as well as developing an interactive resource map of the process.

The Interactive Democracy Inventory An interactive , web-based catalogue of democratic activities designed to support the global community of democratic practice. Self-labeling descriptors allow the indexing of organizations, projects, events, law and scholarship focused on promoting democracy.  A project of the Democracy Design Workshop.

The Interactive IP and Cyber Law Inventory Research project devoted to developing a  taxonomy (indexing system) for digitizing, cataloguing and comparing IP and cyber-law in developing world countries.  In collaboration with CAPTEL, Singapore.

Antitrust Law & IP Proposal to Singapore
Professor Peritz is currently engaged in drafting a report for the Republic of Singapore concerning the interaction of antitrust law and intellectual property rights. The report is one of four that have been commissioned by Singapore from an international group of scholars from Australia, England, and Japan.  The project will culminate in a focused three-day meeting between the group of authors and government officials to draft an antitrust statute and design a regulatory structure that will then be proposed to Singapore's Parliament.  The reports will also be published by Sweet & Maxwell (Asia). The volume is intended to inform not only judges, government officials and lawyers in Singapore but also their counterparts in other Southeast Asian countries seeking to follow Singapore's lead in enacting antitrust statutes.

Current Research Initiatives

The Democracy Design Workshop

The Harlan Scholars Program

Harlan Scholars at the Institute form an intellectual family of faculty and students who work together to study information, communication and the law.