Academic communities
Scholars
and researchers join academic communities to disseminate their ideas
and listen to others'. They want to publish papers in learned journals,
attend conferences and symposiums, and become a member of forums as
editor, editing/steering committee member, observer, etc. For each
sub-field of one single discipline, hundreds of journals, conferences,
forums, symposiums are out there.
As
Information scientist and researcher pursuing the specialty in
information technology policy, I am especially interested in legal
issues around disputes among fee-based service participants: consumers,
end-service providers (in contrast to "end-user"), and intermediaries
(e.g., network service providers, software developing companies, etc.).
The academic communities I have been attracted to are as follows:
Center for E-Commerce at Stanford Law School
The Stanford Law School Center for Ecommerce, part of the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology
aims at exploring the fast-growing field of electronic commerce law.
The Center supports studies of policy, guidelines, and industry
practices in the e-commerce area. Due to its professional and
interdisciplinary nature of the field, the Center intends to foster
enhanced synergy among scholars, policy makers, practicing lawyers,
executives, and Stanford Law students.
The research topics and recent project the Center supports fit to my research interest quite well. Main research topics the Center mostly supports include: Consumer protection and distance selling; copyright and information society; cyber-crime; domain names; e-commerce; e-money; e-signatures; international private law (applicable contract law); jurisdiction; privacy/data protection; taxes.
One of the Center's recent projects is "EU E-Commerce Law Project" co-sponsored by the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum, the Stanford Center
for E-Commerce, and the Forum on Contemporary Europe (Freeman Spogli
Institute for International Studies). The main theme of the project is
to examine the law and policy of the European Union regarding online
businesses and relevant economic governance issues and regulatory
practices affecting the online EU-U.S. marketplace.
John M. Olin Center for Law & Economics at University of Michigan
The John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at University of Michigan Law School supports
research in law, technology, and economics with the aim to further the
understanding of the economics of innovation and intellectual property,
networks and telecommunication, internet and information, and related
areas. The Center attracts me in that they support research which will
enhance the understanding of the information-technology-oriented
tensions using the combined methods of law, technology, and economics.
My research goal is: [1] First to identify who is responsible for
economic loss from network failure in the fee-based services on the
Internet by analyzing network technologies and applying legal theories
on contract; [2] to allocate the loss to appropriate parties using the
methods in law and economics.
Samuleson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic
The Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley Law was established in January 2001 as the first in the United States
to conduct legal, interdisciplinary, technology policy relevant
research. The name of the Clinic is after its founder, Professor Pamela Samuelson at
the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley, who is a renowned expert
in intellectual property law. Since its founding, the Clinic has been
working with nonprofit organizations, government agencies and
legislators, and academic researchers across a range of issues
including free speech, privacy, intellectual property, electronic commerce, voting systems, and open source software.
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