Professor Carole Hafner chairs conference on Law and Information Technology

CCIS faculty member Carole Hafner, Director of NU's Information Science program, is co-chair (with Dean Maureen O'Rourke of the Boston University Law School) of LawTech 2006, to be held October 9-11 at the MIT Faculty Club.

This conference brings together experts in the legal and legal informatics fields for a series of research papers and tutorial presentations. Professor Dan L. Burk of the University of Minnesota Law School will deliver the keynote speech on "Owning Avatars: Legal Control of Human and Non-human Data Representations." The conference also features sessions on: Digital Rights Management Technologies; Computer-assisted Dispute Resolution; Interpretation of Software Patents; Legal Issues in Nano- and Bio-Technology; Legal Protection for Database Contents; and Emerging Legal Information Technologies.

A complete program can be found at: www.iasted.org/conferences/home-545.html.