Call for papers

From: Jessica Litman <litman[_at_]mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:48:09 -0500

I thought this call for papers might be of interest to subscribers to this list.

The Organizing Committee is very interested in receiving abstracts for copyright and intellectual property papers related to telecommunications issues, including (especially) the Internet.

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Jessica Litman

Wayne State University Law School                     313-577-3952
litman[_at_]mindspring.com     


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The Twenty-Fifth Annual

Telecommunications Policy Research Conference

Fall, 1997
Washington, DC area

For more info: http://www.si.umich.edu/~prie/tprc

The Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) is an annual forum for dialogue among scholars engaged in publishable research on policy-relevant telecommunications issues, and public and private sector decision makers engaged in making telecommunications policy. The purpose of the conference is to acquaint policy makers with the best of recent research in telecommunications, and to familiarize researchers with the knowledge needs of policy makers.

TPRC is now soliciting research papers or complete session proposals for presentation at its 1997 conference. Papers should be based on current theoretical and/or empirical research relevant to the making of telecommunications policy, and may be from any disciplinary perspective. In addition, because this year marks the 25th anniversary of the TPRC, we invite papers that place telecommunications policy in historical perspective, or that identify future trends and issues. Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

               Telecommunications Economics

                    Allocation of Internet Resources 
                    Cost Structure of the Local
                    Exchange 
                    Network Economics 
                    Spectrum Management 
                    Market Structure for Internet 

               Convergence and Competition 

                    Video Competition 
                    Vertical Integration 
                    Internet Telephony 
                    Local Exchange Competition 

               International Issues 

                    International Data Flow 
                    Competition in International
                    Services 
                    WTO Issues 
                    Cross-Border Coordination 

               Telecommunications and Society 

                    Info War and Network Security 
                    Changing Info Social
                    Environments 
                    Universal Service 
                    Electronic Commerce 
                    Education and Social Service 

               Content Issues 

                    Intellectual Property 
                    Privacy 
                    Online Speech 
                    Digital Libraries 
                    Media Content 

               Policy and Restructuring 

                    Telecom Act of 1996 
                    Political Economy 
                    Network Administration 
                    State and Local Initiatives 

Submissions should consist of an abstract of the proposed paper, and if available, the paper itself. To assist the selection committee, please also submit bibliographic references to some examples of your recent relevant work, if available.

Submissions must be made electronically to Dawn Higgins at: tprc[_at_]ei.com and received no later than March 28, 1997. (Call if email is unavailable.)

Please include your e-mail address with your submission. Selected papers must be no more than 30 pages and will be due to TPRC by September 8, 1997.

If you have any questions, please call Dawn Higgins at (202) 452-9033.

For more info: http://www.si.umich.edu/~prie/tprc

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Organizing Committee

  JEFF MACKIE-MASON   CHAIR
  University of Michigan
  Dept. of Economics                                         

  BENJAMIN COMPAINE   Temple University
  School of Communication & Theater                                   

  NICHOLAS ECONOMIDES   Stern School of Business
  and
  Ctr. For Economic Policy Research
  Stanford University                                     

  HEATHER HUDSON   University of San Francisco
  McLaren School of Business

  EVAN KWEREL   Federal Communications Commission
  Office of Plans and Policy                                   

  JESSICA LITMAN   Wayne State University Law School

  PAUL RESNICK   AT&T Labs                                       

  JORGE SCHEMENT   Penn State University                                        

  JEAN PAUL SIMON   France Telecom                                         Received on Thu Feb 13 1997 - 23:05:12 GMT