Keynote Speaker

on the topic of "The Tragedy of the Innovation Commons?: Reconciling Private Claims with Public Interest"

Lawrence Lessig is one of the country's leading commentators on legal aspects of new communications technologies and cyberspace. He is Professor of Law and founder and executive director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Professor Lessig is chairman of the board of Creative Commons and a member of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is the author of many influential publications about cyberlaw and cyberspace, including two books: The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (2001) and Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). He is counsel to the plaintiffs in Eldred v. Ashcroft.

Speaker

on the topic of "The Philosophical Postulates of American Intellectual Property Law: A View of the Legislative History"

The Honorable Edward J. Damich is Chief Judge at the United States Court of Federal Claims. He undertook his legal training at The Catholic University of America and Columbia University. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee. There, he assisted with the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and in the drafting of the proposed Omnibus Patent Act. He was a member of the United States delegation at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) diplomatic conference, which concluded the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. He is a past Commissioner of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal. He currently teaches copyright law as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and has previously been a professor of law at George Mason University and at Delaware Law School of Widener University. He is the author of numerous articles on copyright law.

Speaker
on the topic of "The Innovation Commons and the Rule of Law:

An Economics Perspective"

Robert W. Hahn is director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a research associate at Harvard University. Previously, he served as a senior staff member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the first Bush Administration. Dr. Hahn frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, American Economic Review, Science, and The Yale Law Journal. Most recently, he is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective (2000). Mr. Hahn is editing a new book, Government Policy toward Open Source Software (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, forthcoming 2002). In addition, he is co-founder of the Community Preparatory School, an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.

Speaker
on the topic of "Reconsidering the Rule of Law:

Commodification in the Information Age"

Margaret-Jane Radin is William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford Law School where she teaches courses in the areas of intellectual property, electronic commerce, and contracts. She directs Stanford Law School's Program in Law, Science and Technology; Center for E-Commerce; and the LL.M. Program in Law, Science and Technology. She previously served on the faculties of the University of Oregon School of Law, and the University of Southern California Law Center, where she was the Carolyn Craig Franklin Professor of Law. She has also been a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School and UCLA Law School. She has published widely on topics in e-commerce, property, and the philosophy of law. A theme of her work in the philosophy of law has been the ideal of the rule of law. Her books include Contested Commodities (1996), and Reinterpreting Property (1993). She is the co-author of Internet Commerce: The Emerging Legal Framework (2002).