11th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC 2018)
11th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC 2018), to be held Wednesday–Thursday, May 30–31 at the George Washington University Marvin Center in DC.
PLSC is a paper workshop. There is no opportunity or obligation to publish flowing from it. Our goal is simply to improve and provide support for in-progress scholarship. To do so, PLSC assembles a wide array of privacy law scholars and practitioners from around the world to discuss the papers. Scholars from many disciplines (psychology/economics, sociolo
We follow a format where a discussant, rather than the author, introduces and leads a discussion on the paper. There are no panels nor talking heads, and everyone is a “participant.” Participation is by invitation only; please do not transfer this invite to another person.
PLSC is co-sponsored by the George Washington University Law School and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & OUTLINES
If you would like to workshop a paper, please create an account on our conference management system, and submit a title, short abstract that grounds your work in a literature (see below), and high-level outline by Friday, December 22, 2017: https://cmt3.research.microsof
Email Chris ([email protected]) if you encounter any problems.
We will announce accepted abstracts on January 19, 2017.
Workshop versions of the paper will be due April 27, 2018. There is no commitment (or opportunity) to publish.
Please note, there is a large and growing list of privacy scholarship. For instance, the SSRN eJournal for privacy has over 3,000 papers, and this excludes pre-internet works, books, and scholarship from non-legal fields. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JE
In writing your abstract, please situate your project in a literature. If your topic is too new or spans multiple literatures, please indicate this. Please also explain the contribution your work makes to the literature.
The Program Committee has adopted new rules on sponsored scholarship at PLSC. We will not accept papers that are subject to pre-publication review/veto, or those where the sponsor controls the content of the paper. We furthermore require a conflicts of interest statement on scholarship.
When we survey participants, the most common complaint surrounds late papers. Thus, we reserve the right to cancel workshops if the paper draft is not provided sufficiently in advance for meaningful evaluation by participants.
Conference participants will be expected to read the papers in advance. Thus, please calendar two days of preparation time in advance of PLSC.
HOTEL
We do not have a hotel block because we’ve found that participants can easily locate rooms in DC.
Be seeing you at PLSC 2018,
Chris Jay Hoofnagle & Dan Solove
Program Committee
Franziska Boehm, University of Münster
Ryan Calo, University of Washington
Danielle Citron, University of Maryland Carey School of Law
Julie Cohen, Georgetown University Law Center
Deven Desai, Georgia Institute of Technology
Woodrow Hartzog, Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law
Kristy Hughes, University of Cambridge
William McGeveran, University of Minnesota Law School
Paul Ohm, Georgetown University Law Center
Paul Schwartz, Berkeley Law
Priscilla Regan, George Mason University
Neil Richards, Washington University Law