Announcement: Third Law and Information Society Symposium: Intermediaries in the Information Society

                 Fordham Law School's Center on Law and
                      Information Policy presents:

              THIRD LAW AND INFORMATION SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM:
               INTERMEDIARIES IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY

                          March 27, 2009

                        Fordham Law School
                      140 W. 62nd Street, NY
                       McNally Amphitheatre


      SCHEDULE:

      9:15  Panel 1: Content and CDA Immunity

      11:00 Panel 2: Why is Tiffany Blue? Third-Party Liability
      and the eBay Cases

      12:30 Panel 3 & Lunch: The Social Impact of Intermediaries

      2:30  Panel 4: Intermediaries as Legal Filters

      4:15  Panel 5: Practical Tips for Advising Intermediaries


      CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

      - Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and
        the First Amendment & Director of The Information Society
        Project, Yale Law School
      - Ian C. Ballon, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
      - Dr. Ian Brown, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet
        Institute & Honorary Senior Lecturer, University College
        London
      - Dan L. Burk, Founding Faculty, University of California -
        Irvine School of Law
      - Rob Frieden, Pioneers Chair and Professor of
        Telecommunications and Law, Penn State University
      - Eric Goldman, Associate Professor of Law & Director of
        the High Tech Law Institute, Santa Clara University
        School of Law
      - Wendy Gordon, Visiting Professor of Law, Fordham Law
        School; Philip S. Beck Professor of Law & Paul J. Liacos
        School in Law, Boston University School of Law
      - James Grimmelmann, Associate Professor of Law, New York
        Law School
      - Paul Gupta, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
      - Thomas D. Halket, Attorney and Chartered Arbitrator,
        Halket & Weitz LLP
      - Samir Jain, Partner, WilmerHale
      - Nancy Kim, Associate Professor of Law, California Western
        School of Law & Visiting Associate Professor, Rady School
        of Management, University of California, San Diego
      - Helen Nissenbaum, Professor of Media, Culture &
        Communication & Senior Fellow of the Information Law
        Institute, New York University
      - Dawn C. Nunziato, Associate Professor of Law, George
        Washington University Law School
      - Joel R. Reidenberg, Associate Chief Academic Officer &
        Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Fordham
        University; Professor of Law and Director of CLIP,
        Fordham Law School
      - Susan Scafidi, Visiting Professor of Law, Fordham Law
        School
      - Rebecca Tushnet, Professor of Law, Georgetown University
        Law Center
      - Jay Westermeier, Partner, Mike Yang, Managing Product
        Counsel, Google, Inc.


      REGISTRATION/FURTHER INFORMATION:

      For additional information and registration please visit:

                 http://law.fordham.edu/clipsymposium
Posted 3/4/09