Archive for April, 2007
Copyright panel @ MIT
Date: 4/28/2007
Title: Copyright, Fair Use, and the Cultural Commons
Location: MIT School of Engineering (part of the series Media in Transition 5: Creativity, Ownership, and Collaboration in the Digital Age)
Speakers: Wendy Gordon, Gordon Quinn, Hal Abelson, Pat Aufderheide, William C. Uricchio
Presentation: streaming video (RealPlayer)
April 27, 2007
Ralph Nader @ USD
Date: 4/27/2007
Title: Challenging Corporate Power and Building Democracy
Speaker: Ralph Nader
Location: University of San Diego
Presentation Type(s): streaming video (Windows Media), streaming audio (Windows Media)
Presented by the University of San Diego School of Law and the Public Interest Law Foundation. The talk runs just under 2 hours, with Q&A starting at the 1:10 mark.
April 27, 2007
“Survivor” Yul Kwon @ Yale
Date: 4/19/2007
Title: Dean’s Program on the Profession Lecture: How I Survived Survivor and Other Professional Challenges
Speaker: Yul Kwon
Location: Yale Law School
Presentation type: Quicktime video (.mov), audio (.mp3)
What does the hit show “Survivor” have to do with law school? Listen to / watch previous winner and Yale Law grad Yul Kwon talk about his experiences in his talk at YLS, recorded last April.
April 19, 2007
From the archives: Basheer on India’s patent regime
Date: 4/19/2007
Title: India’s new patent regime: TRIPS implications
Location: Washington College of Law, American University
Speaker: Shamnad Basheer
Presentation type: streaming video (Windows Media Player)
Professor Shamnad Basheer (visiting at George Washington) speaks on India’s new Patent Regime: TRIPS Implications. Professor Basheer completed a bachelor of civil law degree with distinction at Oxford as a Shell Centenary scholar, where his thesis dealing with biotechnology and patent law in India was awarded the second prize in a writing contest held by the Stanford Technology Law Review. He is currently an associate with the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and is a Wellcome Trust scholar in the doctoral program at Oxford. His research interests include patents and developing countries and the interface between patents and antitrust. He is currently authoring a book on Indian patent law.
Direct linking to the stream isn’t feasible here, so click on the title above and scroll down the page for the video.
April 19, 2007
2007 Baum lecture @ Illinois
Date: 4/17/2007
Title: Constitutional Remedies
Speaker: John C. Jeffries Jr.
Location: University of Illinois
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Windows Media Player)
This lecture is part of the David C. Baum Memorial Lecture Series on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights at Illinois.
April 17, 2007
Case Western Reserve lecture series
CWRU’s annual lecture series begins tomorrow, with live webcasts and archives available soon after each lecture. Here’s a recent addition to the archive:
Date: 4/17/2007
Title: Parental Leave and Other Embarrassments (Sumner Canary Lecture)
Speaker: Saul Levmore, Dean, University of Chicago Law School
Location: Case Western Reserve
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Windows Media)
April 17, 2007
From the archives: Amy Chua
Date: 4/9/2007
Title: Inaugural Lecture as John M. Duff Professor of Law
Speaker: Amy Chua
Location: Yale
Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua gives her inaugural lecture as the John M. Duff Professor. Professor Chua, an expert on international business and globalization, gives a historical overview of world-dominant powers and discusses the possibility-and desirability-of an American Empire.
Presentation type: Quicktime video (.mov), audio (.mp3)
April 9, 2007
