The AALS Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation call for papers features a topic near and dear to my heart this year: Google and Antitrust. Here is the announcement:
Call for Papers Announcement
AALS Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation
Google and Antitrust
2013 AALS Annual Meeting
January 4-7, 2013
New Orleans, Louisiana
The AALS Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation will hold a program on Google and Antitrust during the AALS 2013 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The program will explore the Federal Trade Commission’s potential antitrust case against Google and the Google Book Search settlement. The program will feature a roundtable panel involving leading scholars who have addressed these issues: Dan Crane (Michigan), Marina Lao (Seton Hall), Frank Pasquale (Seton Hall), and Pam Samuelson (Berkeley). We are looking to add one additional panelist through this Call for Papers.
Submission procedure:
Anyone interested in participating is encouraged to submit a draft paper (preferred, and roughly in the range of 20-40 pages) or proposal by e-mail to Michael A. Carrier, at mcarrier@camlaw.rutgers.edu by September 4, 2012.
Eligibility:
Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers. Faculty at fee-paid law schools; foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty members; graduate students; fellows; and non-law school faculty are not eligible to submit. Papers may already be accepted for publication, as long as the paper will not be published before the AALS meeting.
Registration fee and expenses:
Call-for-Paper participants will be responsible for paying their annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.
How will papers be reviewed?
Papers will be reviewed and selected by members of the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Antirust and Economic Regulation: Darren Bush (Houston), Michael Carrier (Rutgers-Camden), Daniel Crane (Michigan), Hillary Greene (Connecticut), Scott Hemphill (Columbia), and D. Daniel Sokol (Florida).
Will the program be published in a journal?
Yes, as a symposium in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Digest.
Deadline date for submission:
September 4, 2012. Decisions will be announced by September 28, 2012.
Program date and time:
Saturday, January 5, 2013, 10:30am – 12:15pm.
Contact for submission and inquires:
Michael A. Carrier
Chair, AALS Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation
Rutgers Law School – Camden
217 North Fifth Street
Camden, NJ 08102
(856) 225-6380
mcarrier@camlaw.rutgers.edu
