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WRITING COMPETITION AND CALL FOR PAPERS
The Global Flow of Information:
A Conference on Law, Culture and Political Economy
April 1-3, 2005, Yale Law School

The Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP), The Yale Journal of
Law & Technology (YJoLT) and the International Journal of Communications
Law and Policy (IJCLP) are pleased to announce their second
interdisciplinary writing competition and a call for papers, in
conjunction with The Global Flow of Information Conference taking place on
April 1-3, 2005 at Yale Law School. We invite students, scholars, policy
makers, activists and practitioners to submit papers for the writing
competition and/or for publication by YJoLT/IJCLP.

Conference Description

Patterns of information flow are one of the most important factors shaping
globalization.  Today individuals, groups, countries, and international
organizations are trying to promote and control the flow of different
kinds of information across national borders— information ranging from
intellectual property and scientific research to political discourse,
brand names and cultural symbols.  And digitally networked environments
subject information to ever new methods of distribution and manipulation. 
Fights over information flow are going to help define who holds power in
the global information economy.

The groundbreaking conference on Global Flows of Information, will explore
these emerging patterns of information flow, and their political,
economic, social, and cultural consequences.  We will be looking at the
following key questions in six different contexts: (1) governance; (2)
economics; (3) culture; (4) politics; (5) science; (6) warfare:

•	Can the flow of information across borders be controlled?  If so, how?
•	Whose interests are going to be affected by flows of information across
borders?  Who will be empowered and who will lose influence and authority?
•	What role can or should law play in securing freedoms, rights, and
democratic accountability as individuals, groups, and nations struggle
over control of information flows?
•	What lessons can we learn about how to regulate information flow from
past experience with other kinds of flow across borders— for example,
flows of goods, services, people, and capital?

For a full conference description, list of speakers, schedule, and
resources, please visit the Yale ISP web site
(http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/).


Writing Competition

Submissions for the writing competition must be received by noon EST,
February 1st, 2005. The author of the best paper, as well as two
runners-up will be invited to present their work at a panel during the
conference. The selection committee is composed of the editorial boards of
YJoLT and IJCLP. The author of the winning paper will receive coverage of
his/her travel to and accommodations at Yale University for the
conference. Selected papers will be announced by March 1st, 2005. The
authors of the award-winning papers will automatically be invited to
publish their work in special Fall 2005 volumes of the Yale Journal of Law
& Technology (http://yjolt.org) and the International Journal of
Communications Law and Policy (http://www.ijclp.org) devoted to the
conference topic.

Journal Publication

All submissions to the writing competition are automatically considered
for journal publication as well. Authors unable to submit papers by the
writing competition deadline may still submit articles for publication in
the Fall 2005 IJCLP/YJoLT volume by noon EST, May 1st, 2005. Authors will
be notified of acceptance by June 1st, 2005. The journals reserve the
right to decide which journal will publish which work, based on the
journals' respective audiences and editorial expertise.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions should be written in English in .doc or .pdf format. They
should conform to academic citation standards, be no longer than 25,000
words, and include an abstract of up to 250 words. Submissions should be
e-mailed simultaneously to Simone Bonetti (simo.bonetti at tiscalinet.it) and
Boris Rotenberg (boris_rotenberg at yahoo.it), lead editors IJCLP; as well as
to Lawrence Cogswell (lawrence.cogswell at yale.edu), Editor-in-Chief, YJoLT.
Inquiries may be addressed to any of the above.