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PRESENTATIONS

 

 

Keynote Address
MR. ANTONY TAUBMAN, “Centripetal and Centrifugal Trends in International Governance of IP”

Parallel-1: “IP-1 – IP & Cutting Edge Tech”
Herbert Zech, “Nanotechnology – New Challenges to Patent Law?”
Archana Chugh & Kanika Sharma, “Dilemmas of IP in Nanotechnology: an Indian Perspective”
Simon Bradshaw, “The IP Implications of Cheap 3D Fabricators”

Parallel-2: “IT-1 – E-governance”
Anton Geist, “Preventing Information Overload in Computer-Assisted Legal Research: Ranking Austrian Supreme Court Cases According to Legal Relevance”
Hisham Tahat, “The Legal Framework of E-Government in Jordan: A Global Perspective”    
Joseph Savirimuthu, “Online Dispute Resolution, E-Justice and Web 2.0”

Parallel-3: “IT-2 – Internet & Security”
Sara Smyth, “Child Pornography and the Law (Canada): A New Agenda for the Information Age”
Gerrit Hornung, “Governing Electronic Identities: The Authentication Concept of the New German ID Card”
Shizuka Abe & On-Kwok Lai, “Enriching the Quality of Life for Global Aging Society in the Information Age: The Positive Use of ICTs in Asia”

Parallel-4: “Med-1 – Stem Cell Governance”
Amanda Warren-Jones, “Human Stem Cells: Catching a Tiger by the Tail”
Rosario Isasi, “Policy Interoperability in the Stem Cell Research: Perspectives & Challenges”
Fabiana Arzuaga, “Stem Cell Research Regulation in Latin America”

Parallel-5: “Med-2 – New Issues”
Bald de Vries & Lyana Francot, “Self-Determination in a Techno-World: Euthanasia as a Case Study”
Naomi Hawkins, “Gene Patents and Genetic Diagnostic Tests”
Norberto Gomes de Andrade, “Enhancement Technologies and Human Identity: A Legal Perspective”

Parallel-6: “IP-2 – Copyright”
Sotiria Kechagia, “Copyright & Technology: The Management of Digital IP Rights”
Nicolas Jondet, “The French Copyright Authority (HADOPI): The Graduated Response and the Disconnection of Illegal File-Sharers”
Tobias Bednarz, “Collective Management of Copyright in Music: An Outdated Concept in the Online World?”

Keynote Speaker
PROF JON BING, “The Computerisation of Legal Decisions”

Parallel-7: “IP-3 - Patents”
Juan He, “Practice and Strategy of Patent Protection for Biotechnology Inventions in China”
Abbe Brown, “The Interface Between IP, Competition and Human Rights”
Richard Taylor, “Playing Catch-Up: IP Law and New Technologies – A View from Practice”

Parallel-8: “Med-3 – Biobank Governance”
Elisa Stefanini, “Biobanks in Italian Legislation: Mind the Gap!”
Graeme Laurie, “Biobanks in the UK and UK Biobank Governance”
Shang-Yung Yen, “Biobanking in UK and Taiwan: Controversies and Governance”

Parallel-9: “IP-4 – ICTs & IP”
Stefan Larsson & Mans Svensson, “Law in Books, Norms in Action: Governing IPRs in a File Sharing Society”
Andrew Torrance, “Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts”
Edson Rodrigues, “In Search of a More Socially Responsible IP Regime: Some Lessons from Brazil”

Parallel-10: “IT-3 – Internet & E-Usage”
Daithi Mac Sithigh, “Law in the Last Mile: Three Stories of Wireless Internet Access”
Anniina Huttunen et al., “Cooling-Off the Over-Heated Discussion of Consumer Digital Rights Discourse by Extending the Cooling-Off Period to Digital Services”
Scott Boone, “Why Study Virtual Worlds?”

Keynote Speaker
PROF BARTHA KNOPPERS, “Genomics and Policymaking”

Parallel-11: “Med-4 – Dignity & Data”
Maria Arellano, “Human Dignity Among Divergent Legal Traditions and Regulations on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Constructing an Operational Definition”
Simone Penasa, “From Biological Provision Towards Genetic Rules: The Need for a Multidimensional System of Genetic Privacy Protection: The Italian Case in the EU”
Matteo Macilotti, “Property and Privacy in the Regulation of Research Biobanks”

Parallel-12: “IT-4 – Internet & Crime”
Lilian Edwards, “Filtering and Freedoms in the Online World”
TJ McIntyre, “Content, Control & Cyberspace: The End of Internet Regulatory Forbearance in the UK”
Andres Guadamuz, “Cybercrime, Cyber-Warfare, Networks and Resilience