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Call for Papers: Customs & Social Norms in a Networked Era at AALS in San Francisco

By Lawrence Solum

Call for Papers Announcement
AALS Section on Internet and Computer Law
Customs and Social Norms in a Networked Era

Friday, January 7, 2011, 10:30 a.m. ? 12:15 p.m.
2011 AALS Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California

Do we need to reconsider how the law treats social norms and customs? This is a perennial topic in legal scholarship, but it seems to have new urgency in light of how quickly the Internet and other technologies facilitate the adoption of new social practices. For example, the availability of social media like YouTube have fostered the widespread use of copyrighted material to create amateur works. Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace seem to have spawned new norms about semi-public sharing of personal information. New practices are also facilitated by businesses?for example, people appear willing to surrender a great deal of private information to businesses despite their stated preferences, the warnings of privacy activists, and the concerns of many scholars. This panel will consider whether and how intellectual property law, privacy law, contract law and other law should respond to relatively new norms and customs.

One or two presenters will be chosen from this call for papers, in addition to several more senior scholars who have been invited to participate.

Eligibility:

Faculty members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools are eligible to submit papers. Foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit. Preference will be given to those who started their first permanent teaching position seven or fewer years ago as of January 2011.

Papers should not have yet appeared in a journal as of the date of the program, although a commitment for publication is acceptable.

Submission Instructions:

Please submit an abstract of 500 or fewer words. Please send to the Section Chair, Mark Schultz at mschultz@siu.edu , with the subject AALS CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION. Please include your name and all relevant contact information. Papers will be selected after review by members of the Executive Committee of the Section via blind review.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on May 19, 2010 (boomark / email).