Welcome & Opening (Playfair Library)  (Chair: Prof Graeme Laurie, SCRIPT)
Prof Douglas Brodie, Head of Law School
Shawn Harmon, Editor-in-Chief, SCRIPTed, and Wiebke Abel, Managing Editor, SCRIPTed

Keynote Address (Playfair Library)  (Chair: Prof Hector McQueen, SCRIPT)
MR. ANTONY TAUBMAN, “Centripetal and Centrifugal Trends in International Governance of IP”

Parallel-1: “IP-1 – IP & Cutting Edge Tech” (Playfair Library)  (Chair: Smita Kheria, SCRIPT)
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” (Raeburn Room)  (Chair: Rachel Crauford-Smith, SCRIPT)
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” (Playfair Library)(Chair: Burkhard Schafer, SCRIPT)
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” (Raeburn Room)  (Chair: Ann Bruce, InnoGen)
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” (Playfair Library)  (Chair: Renate Gertz, U Glasgow)
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” (Raeburn Room)  (Chair: Smita Kheria, SCRIPT)
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 (Playfair Library)  (Chair: Prof Lilian Edwards, SCRIPT)
PROF JON BING, “The Computerisation of Legal Decisions”

Parallel-7: “IP-3 - Patents” (Raeburn Room)  (Chair: Prof Hector McQueen, SCRIPT)
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” (Playfair Library)  (Chair: Ann Bruce, InnoGen)
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” (Playfair Library)  (Chair: Richard Jones, U Edinburgh)
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” (Raeburn Room)  (Chair: Burkhard Schafer, SCRIPT)
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 (Playfair Library)  (Chair: Prof Sarah Cunningham-Burley, InnoGen)
PROF BARTHA KNOPPERS, “Genomics and Policymaking”

Parallel-11: “Med-4 – Dignity & Data” (Raeburn Library)  (Chair: Renate Gertz, U Glasgow)
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” (Playfair Library) (Chair: Richard Jones, U Edinburgh)
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”

Thank You & Closing (Playfair Library)
Shawn Harmon, Editor-in-Chief, SCRIPTed, and Wiebke Abel, Managing Editor, SCRIPTed

Venue: Moot Court Room, Old College

This event is a separate workshop associated with the conference. There are very few spaces available, if you would like to attend email Andrés Guadamuz at a.guadamuz@ed.ac.uk