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Philosophy and Intellectual Property Conference

London, UK

29-30 May, 2009

 

Programme | Registration | Organisation and Sponsorship | Location | Accommodation | Contact

The Philosophy and Intellectual Property Conference brings together an internationally renowned group of philosophers and legal theorists. It will discuss whether intellectual property, as currently conceived, has any philosophical or legal coherence that distinguishes it from other forms of property, or other rights that people might have in their bodies, ideas and in the world. Intellectual property rights give their holders considerable powers to with-hold life-saving inventions and medicines, to prevent the dissemination and sharing of books, music and art work and to charge fees for licensing and use that only the wealthiest individuals and governments are able to pay. Therefore the aim of this conference is to promote dialogue between lawyers and philosophers over the solution to conceptual and normative problems in the treatment of intellectual property, as these are, increasingly, of practical as well as theoretical importance, and difficult to resolve within the bounds of any one intellectual discipline.

Programme


FRIDAY - 29 MAY 2009

08:30 - 09:30 REFRESHMENTS AND REGISTRATION

09:30 - 09:45 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

09:45 - 11:15 PANEL 1

Autonomy, Social Selves, and Intellectual Property Claims (paper)
Chair: John O'Neill - Department of Philosophy, University of  Manchester, UK
Presenter: John Christman - Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Commentator: Abraham Drassinower - Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada

11:15 - 11:45 REFRESHMENTS

11:45 - 13:15 PANEL 2

Patents and the Human Genome
Chair: Muireann Quigley - Institute for Science, Ethics, and Education, School of Law, University of                                        Manchester, UK
Presenter: Leif Wenar - School of Law, King's College, UK
Commentator: Annabelle Lever - Department of Philosophy, London School of Economics, UK

13:15 - 14:15 LUNCH

14:15 - 15:45 PANEL 3

A Corrective Justice Argument for Intellectual Property Rights in Traditional Knowledge (paper,     abstract)
Chair: Tim Roberts - The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, UK
Presenter: Stephen R. Munzer - School of Law, UCLA, USA
Commentator: Graham Dutfield - School of Law, University of Leeds, UK

15:45 - 16:15 REFRESHMENTS

16:15 - 17:45 PANEL 4

Copyright and the Public Sphere (abstract)
Chair: Wendy J. Gordon - School of Law, Boston University, and School of Law, Fordham University, NY, USA
Presenter: Anne Barron - Department of Law, London School of Economics, UK
Commentator: Laura Biron - Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK

19:30 DINNER FOR PANELISTS


SATURDAY - 30 MAY 2009

08:30 - 09:00 REFRESHMENTS

09:00 - 10:30 PANEL 5

Is P2P Sharing of MP3 Files an Objectionable Form of Free-Riding? (paper)
Chair: Otilia Miclosina - Western University of Timisoara, Romania
Presenter: Geert Demuijnck - Edhec Business School, Lille, France
Commentator: David Lametti - Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

10:30 - 11:00 REFRESHMENTS

11:00 - 12:30 PANEL 6

What's Wrong With Plagiarism?
Chair: Dev Gangjee - Department of Law, London School of Economics, UK
Presenter: Alex Oliver - Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK
Commentator: Harry Lesser - Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester, UK

12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH

13:30 - 14:45 PANEL 7

On the Value of the Intellectual Commons (paper)
Chair: Lionel Bently - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, UK
Presenter: James Wilson - Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre and Centre for Philosophy Justice
                                         and Health, University College London, UK
Commentator: Christopher Wadlow - Department of Law, University of East Anglia

14:45 - 15:15 REFRESHMENTS

15:15 - 16:45 PANEL 8

Is There a Human Right to Pharmaceuticals? The Global Commons, the Intellectual Commons, and the Possibility of Private Intellectual Property (paper, abstract)
Chair: Kathleen Liddell - Centre for Intellectual Property & Information Law and Faculty of Law, University
                                     of Cambridge, UK
Presenter: Mathias Risse - John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Commentator: Axel Gosseries Ramalho - Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et Politiques,
                                                                Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

16:45 - 17:15 BREAK

17:15 - 18:45 PANEL 9

Do We Really Need IP Rights? Considerations from Political Philosophy, Political Economy and Technological Change (paper, abstract)
Chair: Jonathan Wolff - Department of Philosophy, University College London, UK
Presenter: Alex Rosenberg - Department of Philosophy, Duke University, USA
Commentator: Maurizio Borghi - Law School, Brunel University, London, UK

19:00 DRINKS FOR AUDIENCE AND PANELISTS

PRESENTATION MATERIALS: The conference room will be equipped with a Windows computer and a projector. Participants who require any other presentation materials are requested to inform the organiser as soon as possible.

Other Participants

Jason Alexander - Department of Philosophy, London School of Economics, UK
Hanan Almawla - Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Sabine Schulz Blank
Romulus Brancoveanu - Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania
Keren Bright - Centre for Law, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Sarah Chan - Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester, UK
Ashok Chakravarty - European Patent Office, Munich, Germany
Ronan Deazley - Birmingham Law School, The University of Birmingham, UK
Niels van Dijk - Law, Science, Technology and Society Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Catherine Dodirina - Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Hilary Gaskin - Cambridge University Press, UK
Gerry Gavigan - The Open Source Consortium, UK
Amy Gibson - EMI Group Ltd, London, UK
Wendy J. Gordon - School of Law, Boston University, and School of Law, Fordham University, NY, USA
Palmira Granados Moreno - Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Greg Hagen - Faculty of Law, University of Calgary, Canada
Rachelle Harris - Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy, London, UK
Rodrigo Eduardo Ramirez Herrera - Faculty of Law, University of Alicante, Spain
Felicity Hide - Boult Wade Tennant, London, UK
Brigitte Hilmer - Institut für Philosophie, Universität Potsdam, Germany and Philosophisches Seminar,
                         Universität Basel, Switzerland
Dan Hunter - New York Law School and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Belinda Isaac - Isaac & Co. Ltd, UK
Mandana Jenabzadeh - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd., London, UK
Sotiria Kechagia - School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Aono Kensaku - Sophia University, Japan and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Nicole van der Laan - Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, Munich, Germany
Malcolm Langley - Intellectual Property Archive, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute,
                            London, UK
Barbara Lauriat - St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK
Christopher Lever - Durham Law School, University of Durham, UK
David Lewisohn - Entertainment Law Review, UK
Margaret Llewelyn - School of Law, The University of Sheffield, UK
Alain Marciano - Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, France
Natasha McCarthy - The Royal Academy of Engineering, London, UK
Masood Ahmed Ali Mir - Advocate at the High Court, Mir & Associates, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Heesob Nam - New Malden, Surrey, UK
Akalemwa Ngenda - Brunel Law School, Brunel University, UK
Martin O'Neill - Manchester Centre for Political Theory, University of Manchester, UK
Lauren Osborne - Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Anna Ostanina - Department of Law (LLM), London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
David Papineau - Department of Philosophy, King's College, University of London, UK
 Chris Peacock - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK
Frances Pinter - Centre for Global Governance, London School of Economics, and Bloomsbury Academic,                          London, UK
Timothy Pinto - Taylor Wessing LLP, London, UK
Julia Powles - Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK
Peter Rands - Teva UK Ltd, UK
Heba Raslan - King's College, London, UK
Patrick Reilly - Intellectual Property Society, USA
Andrew Rens - Shuttleworth Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
Ken Shadlen - Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics, UK
Amr Shoukry - Brunel Law School, University of Brunel, UK
Hillel Steiner - School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
Julius Stobbs - Boult Wade Tennant, Cambridge, UK
Teresa Swieckowska - Institute of Information and Book Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
Nigel Warburton - Department of Philosophy, Open University, Milton keynes, UK
John Williams - ip21 Ltd, London, UK
Jessica Wolff - Boult Wade Tennant, London, UK
Nan Zhang - Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Registration and Attendance

The conference registration is now open. The following payment rates apply:

Payments can be made by mailing a cheque in GBP with your registration form. Overseas participants can pay the registration fee in cash at the registration desk on the first day of the conference.

The conference registration is handled by the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London. In order to register please download this form (MS Word document) and follow its instructions. Any enquiries regarding the form and payment should be directed to the e-mail addresses specified on the form. For all other matters, apart from registration, please use the information provided on this site.

New participants wishing to attend the conference are requested to inform the conference organiser - Dr. Annabelle Lever - of their intention to attend using the contact information below. This is very important, since it will allow organisers to adequately plan on printing and distributing conference materials and on other conference organisation matters.

Organisation and Sponsorship

The conference is organised by Annabelle Lever from the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics.

Generous support and sponsorship for the organisation of the conference is provided by

Location

The conference venue is the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London. The institute is located in the Stewart House building of the University of London. However, the conference will be held in Room N336 in the North Block of the Senate House building on Malet Street. You can find here an area map of the venue.

For transportation to hotels and the conference venue please visit the Transport for London site.

Accommodation

A limited amount of accommodation, at very competitive prices, has been arranged at the

Goodenough Club
Goodenough College
23 Mecklenburgh Square
London WC1N 2AD

To make reservations please contact

Marzena Orzol
Senior Reservations Officer
Tel: +44 (0) 207 769 4727
Fax: +44 (0) 207 837 9321
Email: reservations@goodenough.ac.uk

and mention this conference.

Additional hotels in the proximity of the conference venue can be found here.

Contact

Annabelle Lever
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics

Lakatos Building
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE

Tel: +44 (0) 207 955 6004 or +44 (0) 796 128 9396
Fax: +44 (0) 207 955 6845
Email: a.p.lever@lse.ac.uk

Last modified: 29 May, 2009