Association of American Law Schools
2001 Annual Meeting
Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - Saturday, January 6, 2001
San Francisco, California

Thursday, January 4, 2001
9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon

Continental Parlor 8
Hilton San Francisco and Towers
Ballroom Level


Section on Mass Communication Law
Monroe E. Price, Yeshiva University, Chair

Copyright Law as Communications Policy: The Convergence of the Two Cultures

Moderator: Monroe E. Price, Yeshiva University

Speakers: Mark A. Lemley, University of California at Berkeley
Philip Lewis, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Socio-legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford, England, and Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, and Visiting Scholar, Stanford Law School
Jessica Litman, Wayne State University
Eugene Volokh, University of California at Los Angeles [View Program Material]
Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State University

The panel will examine the changing paradigms used in copyright and communications laws and the convergence of the two cultures. It will also explore the transformation of the academia and the copyright and communications bars in light of the convergence phenomenon.

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