My future publication/presentation outlets

The Berkeley Technology Law Journal

The Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ) is a publication of the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. It has passed 23 years since the first issue was published in 1986. The coverage areas of the BTLJ are intellectual property, antitrust, cyberlaw, telecom, biotech and business law. In addition to the Journal's primary mission of publishing quality articles, BTLJ has been organizing technology law conferences in cooperation with the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. The BTLJ has been appreciated to help keep judges, policymakers, practitioners, and the academic community abreast of the technology law field.

The journal reflects the academic excellence and tradition of the university's intellectual law program which is evaluated one of the best programs in the United States. One of my long standing research questions is "Whose information is whose? This question presents widely acknowledged legal question to law professors and researchers in the digital era when the conventional approaches of existing IP law are losing its implication. My goal is to contribute to the cyberlaw area by publishing the alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review

Founded in 1994, the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review (MTTLR) is one of the first online law journals in the world with the use of interactive media to promote informed discourse about the interrelated legal, social, business, and public policy issues raised by emerging technologies. The journal's primary study is on how to deal with the tensions created by advances in computing, telecommunications, biotechnology, multimedia, networking, information and other technologies.

The journal attracts me in the two ways: [1] Relevance to my research interest and [2] the approaches I am pursuing for the issues I am interested in studying. The issues that the MTTLR has been studying best match with mine. As for the issues, the main theme of the issues dealt in the journal is the unprecedented tension at personal and social levels which originate from the advancement of information and telecommunications technologies. The MTTLR has been also efficiently cooperating with the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at University of Michigan Law School, which approaches these issues with combination of law, technology, and economics. Since I have passion for law and economics in that I am totally with the criticism about court decisions which are based on the subjective judgment which lacks quantitative objectivity, which is required in addressing tensions between confronting adversaries. Publishing a paper in the MTTLR means that the publishing scholar has an extensive mastery of law, technology, and law which is an academic goal of mine.

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution

I am also very interested in becoming the member of the 23 year official law journal of the American Bar Association's Section on Dispute Resolution, the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution (JDR) published by The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law. The JDR is dedicated to the exploration of alternative forums for and methods of dispute resolution, such as negotiation, mediation, arbitration, summary jury trials, and mini-trials.

The JDR publishes four issues annually, consisting of three articles issues and an annotated bibliography issue. In addition to editing and publishing journals, the JDR sponsors symposia to facilitate discussion on cutting-edge issues within the field of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Also, the JDR also sponsors the Schwartz Lecture, which annually brings a nationally recognized scholar in the field of alternative dispute resolution to the College of Law to address issues of interest and concern to both students and practitioners.

I found the journal doing key-word search for the papers which study dispute resolution and third-party liability of ISPs in e-commerce. I have found out that papers in this topic are published in JDR more than in any other law journals.

Telecommunications Policy Research Conference

Telecommunication policy is also a field deeply related with my research topic in perspective of the public policy approach to the responsibility and capacity of network service providers. TPRC covers the full range of legal, economic, social, and technical issues on national/international information and communications policy, which include: telephony, radio/television broadcasting, cable/satellite communication, Internet communication, technological convergence and its regulatory implications, intellectual property, electronic commerce, communications privacy and security, computer crime, and economic development. TPRC' two primary goals are: [1] dissemination of research on current issues around communications policy; and [2] promotion of new research on emerging issues. Due to its professional and interdisciplinary nature like other IT fields, researchers from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations together with policy makers participate in TPRC.

TPRC has its root to the first Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (subsequently renamed TPRC) organized by Bruce Owen in 1972, when he was with the Office of Telecommunications Policy in the White House. With growing telecommunications usage and expansion of industry, TPRC was reorganized and given a more formal institutional structure from 1986 with scholars' efforts such as Roger Noll of Stanford University and Henry Geller of Duke University.

Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to the following (for more detailed descriptions see http://www.tprc.org):

- Network Competition, Policy and Management

- Next Generation and all-IP Networks: Policy, Regulatory, Architectural and Societal Issues

- Spectrum Management and Wireless Futures: Anywhere, Anytime Communications and its Implications

- Societal Issues: Universality and Affordable Access; ICTs for Development and Growth

- The Transformation and Future of Media in an Age of User- and Community-Produced Creativity

- The Transformation and Future of Intellectual Property and Digital Rights

- Privacy, Security, Identity and Trust

- Internet Governance and Institutional Strategies for Information Policy

The 36th Research Conference was held during September 26 - September 28, 2008 at The National Center for Technology & Law, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, VA.