Tech-Law-Deadlines
Mid-Atlantic Patent Works-in-Progress (MAPWIP) 2025
Mid-Atlantic Patent Works-in-Progress (MAPWIP) '25
Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). Faculty members or current fellows at law schools in the Mid-Atlantic region may submit a work-in-progress on any topic related to patent law. To join the event, please email John R. Thomas (jrt6@law.georgetown.edu) with your draft on or before Thursday, August 28th. Papers will be selected and distributed by Tuesday, September 2nd. If you wish to serve as a dedicated commentator, please email me by August 28th. Participants will fund their own travel and lodging. We will secure a discount rate at nearby hotels and provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner on September 19th. No registration fee will be charged.
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). The Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC) at Northeastern University School of Law invites New England-area law professors to submit an abstract for its Fall 2025 IP Works in Progress Roundtable. The workshop will feature works in progress in intellectual property, privacy and/or technology law.
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). The conference brings together academic researchers from both computer science and law in an interdisciplinary format that fosters exchange and discussions between these two fields. It targets an international, academic audience that is willing to think beyond the boundaries of their own discipline.
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AALS Section on Intellectual Property - Virtual Workshop 2025
AALS Section on Intellectual Property - Virtual Workshop '25
Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). We particularly encourage scholars preparing job talks to apply and use the workshop as a sounding board. We will accept up to four papers, and each paper will be allotted forty-five minutes for presentation and discussion. All selected authors will be expected to read the other papers prior to the workshop. We also encourage IP scholars at any career stage to join the roundtable as discussants. To participate as a presenter or discussant, please send a draft (or request to be a discussant) to Eric Priest at priest@uoregon.edu by June 15.
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). Sign up here: https://forms.gle/vUMczAT7oJjeq2B77
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Stanford Trust and Safety Research Conference 2025 2025
Stanford Trust and Safety Research Conference 2025 '25
Note: The Stanford Cyber Policy Center's two day Trust and Safety Research Conference (September 25-26, 2025) focuses on research in trust and safety for those in academia, industry, civil society, and government.
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Legal Responses to the Existential Threat Posed by Artificial Intelligence 2025
Legal Responses to the Existential Threat Posed by Artificial Intelligence '25
Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). The conference will explore legal responses to the potential existential threat posed by AI. While AI holds enormous promise, many experts in the field are warning that there is a non-trivial chance that its development poses an existential threat to humanity. The initial wave of concern that swept across the world in 2023-24 appears to have now abated, giving way to an all-out, accelerating race to develop AI. With the recent release of DeepSeek and Manus, this race is now increasingly being driven by geopolitical as well as commercial incentives. Yet the potential threat remains.
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). The IP Scholars Conference brings together intellectual property scholars to present their works-in-progress in order to benefit from the critique of colleagues. IPSC 2025 will accept presentation requests on all IP-related topics, including but not limited to Copyright, Trademark and Unfair Competition Law, Patent, Trade Secret, Cyberlaw, Art Law and Cultural Heritage Law.
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Eighth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM 2025
Eighth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM '25
Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). The Northwestern, Penn and Stanford law schools are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Eighth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM, which will be held at Northwestern on September 26-27, 2025. The Forum is dedicated to interdisciplinary scholarship focusing on the intersection of Law and Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM). We are seeking submissions from junior faculty in any discipline interested in presenting papers at the Forum. The deadline for submissions is June 3, 2025.
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User Rights Symposium 2025: Principles for Progress in the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights 2025
User Rights Symposium 2025: Principles for Progress in the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights '25
Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). This year’s symposium will be limited to 50 attendees to maximize the possibility for deliberation and community building among scholars and practitioners on a targeted set of issues. The meetings will include both presentations of finished scholarship and works in progress and deliberations of principles for a statement.
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First Annual Hoover Institution (Stanford) / ASU Law Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop 2025
First Annual Hoover Institution (Stanford) / ASU Law Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop '25
Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). Focus on free speach (tags for priv., AI, and IP are general). The CALL ---> Are you a law student, judicial law clerk, or lawyer hoping to publish your first, second, or third law review article related to free speech law? Would you like the opportunity to get advice about your draft from leading free speech scholars? If so, send us your draft by May 15, 2025. (This should still be a draft article, not an article that’s already published or expected to be published within six months or less.) We plan to select the submissions that we think are particularly promising, and invite their authors to a workshop—planned for early in the Fall—where they can present their papers and get helpful feedback on them. We have funds to pay for transportation and lodging for the selected authors’ trips.
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Legally Compliant Intelligent Chatbots – The Challenge of Persuasion and Manipulation 2025
Legally Compliant Intelligent Chatbots – The Challenge of Persuasion and Manipulation '25
Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). Date: June 16 or 20, 2025 (exact to be confirmed later). This workshop, supported by the ERC Advanced Grant Project CompuLaw and organised by the European University Institute, focuses on developing methodologies to create legally compliant chatbot systems. It seeks to explore logic-based models, machine learning, and large language models (LLMs) to address the challenges of ethically permissible persuasion in intelligent chatbots.We invite the submission of long (up to 15 pages) and short papers (up to 8 pages) that address theoretical, technical, and empirical aspects of legally compliant chatbots. Submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on relevance, innovation, and potential contributions to the workshop discussions.
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Re-Imagining Cryptography and Privacy (ReCAP) Workshop 2025
Re-Imagining Cryptography and Privacy (ReCAP) Workshop '25
Note: The aim of the workshop is to explore the ways in which cryptography and privacy intersect with society toward designing, creating, and sustaining technologies that explicitly benefit marginalized communities. We welcome work and perspectives from social scientists, humanities scholars, community organizations, industry practitioners, technologists, and academics outside of cryptography. ReCAP 2025 is a hybrid workshop from June 3-4 that will take place physically in City College of New York in New York, New York (USA) and virtually on Zoom.
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). Established in 2018, IPRE is a collaborative effort between UNIGE, WIPO, and WTO to convene IP scholars in Geneva, a city privileged for its position as an international forum for policy debates about current and future IP laws and policies. Since then, the Conference has brought together academic researchers from Europe and beyond to discuss their works-in-progress with other colleagues and policymakers.
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). Email to cyberprof indicated later deadline than posted on website; see website for full details!
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Tenth Penn-Columbia Copyright Scholarship Roundtable 2025
Tenth Penn-Columbia Copyright Scholarship Roundtable '25
Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). The Roundtable is designed to be a forum for the discussion of current copyright scholarship, covering a range of methodologies, topics and perspectives. Approximately 7-9 papers will be chosen for discussion over the course of the Roundtable, with each paper allocated an entire hour for discussion. The organizers will cover the domestic travel and hotel expenses of presenters whose papers are selected for presentation at the Roundtable. A conference reception and dinner will take place on the evening of Friday, June 13. Participation in the Roundtable is by invitation only, and participants are expected to have read all the papers in advance and be present on both days of the event.
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). Since its launch at CUHK LAW in 2020, the Machine Lawyering Conference has become a leading international forum for exploring the nexus between law and digital technology. It has earned an impressive reputation across Asia and beyond, attracting participants from around the world. Experts contribute to a rich dialogue by presenting research and interacting with each other on a broad array of topics, from the legal challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI) to issues of data and platform governance. This vibrant exchange has been instrumental in facilitating a dynamic cross-pollination of ideas among attendees.
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WEMIP: Workshop on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property 2025
WEMIP: Workshop on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property '25
Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). The first day of the workshop is intended to give scholars engaging in empirical studies of IP a chance to receive feedback on their work at an early stage in their research. Projects using any variety of empirical methods, including experimental methods and qualitative methods, are welcome. Ideal projects for the workshop are in their developmental stages where substantial data collection has not begun. Pilot data collection is, however, appropriate. To ensure substantial individualized feedback, the workshop will be organized around a modest number of developmental projects. Each project will be assigned to an expert commenter and will be allotted 45 minutes of discussion by the attendees. On the second day of the workshop, we will host a discussion of several more developed empirical IP projects by senior empirically-focused scholars. Since the authors of those papers will serve as the discussants for the workshop papers, we expect workshop authors will remain for the discussion on the second day.
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Intellectual Property and Technology in the 21st Century: Challenges in the Next Decade 2025
Intellectual Property and Technology in the 21st Century: Challenges in the Next Decade '25
Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). Proposals for presentations at the conference should contain the following: 1) Name, Job Title and Institutional Affiliation; 2) Title of Paper; 3) Abstract of Paper (no more than 1000 words); and 4) An indication of whether the final paper would be submitted to the SJLS. Proposals should be sent to Professor David Tan at david.tan@nus.edu.sg by 1 February 2025.
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). Contact Timothy Hsieh for details. From the call: The JIPSA Winter Workshop is open to any IP scholar (broadly defined) who has held a full-time academic position for seven (7) years or less (not counting time as a VAP or fellow). Participants can opt to present either a full draft or an early-stage outline (which can be as short as one page). Generally, anyone who is eligible and wants to present can do so, there is not a submission / acceptance process. We can also work with you if you want to present virtually or over Zoom but ideally we would love to have you attend in person to check out OCU Law and OKC.
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). Submission Link: https://cslaw25.hotcrp.com/
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). For full consideration, please submit an abstract of a maximum of 350 words of the proposed submission with your name, position, and affiliation to raceipconference@gmail.com. We welcome submissions in non-traditional formats from participants at all stages in their careers.
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Note: PLSC is a paper workshop conference. It offers no opportunity or obligation to publish. The goal is to provide support for in-progress scholarship related to information privacy law. The boundaries of privacy as a discipline are dynamic and contested. Although PLSC emphasizes the law of privacy, concepts from other fields play critical roles in our understanding of privacy and in shaping the law.
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). Juris-informatics studies legal issues from the perspective of informatics and AI. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss both the fundamental and practical issues among people from the various backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional 'AI and law' area. We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics.
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). Juris-informatics studies legal issues from the perspective of informatics and AI. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss both the fundamental and practical issues among people from the various backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional 'AI and law' area. We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics.
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Law and Technology Workshop (Spring—monthly) 2025
Law and Technology Workshop (Spring—monthly) '25
Note: Online (monthly, starting February); no timezone indicated (New York assumed); more information on the Workshop can be found here: https://lawtechworkshop.org/.
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed). The conference will begin on Thursday morning and run until 1PM on Friday. You can expect to be at the Atlanta airport by 1:45 PM, in time for a 2:30 PM flight or later on Friday. We will pay for your reasonable (economy) travel and accommodation expenses within the U.S. At the roundtable you will be well fed and caffeinated.
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Note: After a 5 year in-person hiatus, the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara Law is pleased to host the Internet Law Works in Progress series for Internet law scholarship on March 8, 2025, at Santa Clara University
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed); 'Please submit a paper abstract of no longer than 300 words and a two-page CV to david.pretel@uam.es and j.a.bellido@kent.ac.uk to be considered.'
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed); age restriction (35 years old as of December 31, 2024) but exceptions may apply; the text of the paper should be no less than 5,000 words and no more than 10,000 words, including footnotes
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed); this remote Workshop is scheduled for four consecutive Fridays in April 2025: Apr. 4, 11, 18, and 25 from 1:30 to 3:30PM (Eastern).
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Note: No timezone indicated (New York assumed); At FESC, scholars and practitioners discuss works-in-progress on the freedoms of speech, expression, press, association, petition, and assembly, as well as on related issues of knowledge and information policy. FESC has become a fixture on the calendar of leading First Amendment thinkers and scholars nationwide.
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Law and Technology Workshop (Fall—monthly) 2024
Law and Technology Workshop (Fall—monthly) '24
Note: Online (monthly, starting September); no timezone indicated (New York assumed); https://lawtechworkshop.org/
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Note: AALS meeting (SF) track; no timezone indicated (New York assumed); https://lawtechworkshop.org/
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Note: Pop Culture and the Law; no timezone indicated in call for abstrats (New York assumed); Scholastica submissions
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Note: various submission types with different deadlies (full paper, works in progress, and lightning talks)
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Mosaic IP Law and Policy Roundtable Conference 2024
Mosaic IP Law and Policy Roundtable Conference '24
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