Organized by Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, New York Law School, Trinity University, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, this pioneering global conference on virtual worlds invites experts across disciplines to discuss the future of cyberspace and the impact of these new immersive, social online environments on education, law, politics and society. The hallmark of the conference is its multi-disciplinary perspective.
Virtual Worlds and Massively Multiplayer Online Games are hugely popular, they are huge business, and they are hugely hyped. Just a few years ago people designing, studying and discussing MMOGs and VWs spent huge amounts of time explaining their most basic features. Nowadays, most people have heard about these strange worlds, many millions of them play in them or hang out in them, and it’s hard not to be exposed to endless news/magazine stories about them. When the first State of Play Conference burst on the scene 4 years ago it was a revelation because it came at the beginning of this trend and asked “What are these strange new worlds?” Now it’s time to take a step back and take stock of virtual world research, and to ask “How did we get here?” and “Where now?”
State of Play III: Social Revolutions is the third annual State of Play conference on the future of cyberspace convened by the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. This year, we focus on social relationships in the metaverse and how to build vibrant, flourishing, creative places.
Every week the research fellows of the Institute and other members of the NYLS community gather for learning lunches to discuss recent developments in intellectual property, technology, information and related areas of law. These moveable feasts take place at area restaurants and often feature a guest speaker who leads the interactive discussion and shares information about his or her research.
Every week the research fellows of the Institute and other members of the NYLS community gather for learning lunches to discuss recent developments in intellectual property, technology, information and related areas of law. These moveable feasts take place at area restaurants and often feature a guest speaker who leads the interactive discussion and shares information about his or her research.
AAI Invitational Roundtable on Complexity, Networks and the Modernization of Antitrust
One perspective for understanding competition that has garnered increased attention by those in antitrust is the field of science known as “complexity science.” Incorporating insights and relying on metaphors from population ecology, evolutionary biology, systems theory, chaos and the study of networks, the science of complexity attempts to describe and explain how systems and their occupants, including industries and firms, evolve and compete against one another over time through adaptation, co-evolution and other dynamic processes.
The New York Law School Law Review is pleased to announce the publication of The Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium Issue State of Play. http://www.nyls.edu/lawreview.
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