[bestbits] ACM Inaugural Computer Science and Law Symposium

[Mishi Choudhary]

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ACM Inaugural Computer Science and Law Symposium
Call for Submission of Student Papers

Overview: The organizers of the inaugural ACM Symposium on Computer
Science and Law invite students at the undergraduate and graduate levels
to submit papers addressing topics in the intersection of computing and
the law.

CFP and Submission Page: https://easychair.org/cfp/CSLaw2019

The Symposium will be held on October 28-29, 2019, at New York Law
School in the Tribeca neighborhood of NYC. Its main goals are to
stimulate interest in Computer Science and Law, broadly defined, and to
articulate a research agenda, an educational agenda, and specific
recommendations about how ACM and other interested institutions can
support work in this emerging field.  This competition is designed to
showcase work already going on in CS+Law educational programs and to
seed fruitful discussion about how ACM can support and expand the
educational agenda in this field.

The complete conference website is here: https://computersciencelaw.org/

List of Topics
Security, privacy, encryption, and surveillance
Cyber espionage, cyber war, and cyber diplomacy
Cyber crime, cyber law enforcement, and digital forensics
Freedom of expression online (or the lack thereof)
Online market structure, platform monopolies, and antitrust law
Online government services
Digital intellectual property
Legal informatics
Automation of legal reasoning and legal services
Fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics (FATE) in machine
learning and data mining
Methodological compatibility and incompatibility between the discipline
of computer science and the discipline of law.

Submission Guidelines
We encourage submissions of papers written for university courses
covering topics in computing and law. Courses listed in departments or
schools of computer science, law, public policy, information science,
information studies, and other relevant disciplines are eligible.  In
additional, we encourage students who have completed substantial course
projects that aren’t papers, including development of computer systems
that address policy challenges, to submit papers that describe those
projects and the findings and conclusions that they led to.

> Submission format: Maximum 10,000 word (or 10-page ACM double-column
format). Note: References do count toward the page limit, and
submissions should not be anonymized. Only PDF or Microsoft Word file
formats accepted.

> Please include with your submission the name and academic department(s)
home of the course for which the paper was originally prepared, if
applicable.

> Submission deadline: Submissions must be received by close of business
in your timezone on Friday 28 June 2019.

> Authorship limit: All authors must be students. Submissions may have
multiple authors. For multiple-author submissions, one author must be
designated to present the poster.
Author eligibility: All currently-enrolled students, as well as those
who were students at the time the submission was initially produced, are
eligible for to enter this completion. Faculty and other non-student
co-authors are not eligible.

> No proceedings: In order to preserve future publication opportunities
for the submitted works we are not publishing the submitted papers.
Winning entrants will have the option to have their posters appear on
the symposium website.

Competition Process
The Program Committee will select 10-20 submissions for poster
presentation at the October symposium. Between the notifications on
August 30 and the poster due date of October 11, members of the PC will
work with the winners and advise them on poster production.
The symposium organizers will provide a travel stipend for at least one
student per successful submission to present their work and attend the
entire symposium.

Please contact Daniel Weitzner <weitzner AT mit DOT edu> with any
questions about the competition.

Conference Organization
General Chair:
Joan Feigenbaum (Yale University, Computer Science Department)

Program Co-Chairs:

Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley, School of Law and Information School)
Daniel J. Weitzner (MIT, Internet Policy Research Initiative)

Program-Committee Members:
Norman Barbosa (Microsoft)
Steven M. Bellovin (Columbia University, Computer Science Department)
Ryan Calo (University of Washington, School of Law)
Ran Canetti (Boston University, Computer Science Department)
Mishi Choudhary (Software Freedom Law Center, India)
Andrew Crocker (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Lothar Determann (Baker McKenzie)
Niva Elkin-Koren (University of Haifa, School of Law)
Nathaniel Gleicher (Facebook)
James Grimmelmann (Cornell University, Law School and Cornell Tech)
James Hendler (RPI, Computer Science Department; ACM Global Policy &
Public Affairs)
Jeanette Hofmann (Freie Universität Berlin, German Internet Institute)
Nicole Jones (Google)
Joshua Kroll (UC Berkeley Information School)
Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft)
Ilaria Liccardi (MIT, Internet Policy Research Initiative)
Stephanie Pell (West Point, Army Cyber Institute)
Aaron Roth (U. of Pennsylvania, Computer and Information Science Department)
Stefan Savage (UC San Diego, Computer Science and Engineering Department)
Nigel Shadbolt (University of Oxford, Jesus College and Computer Science
Department)
Eli Sugarman (Hewlett Foundation, Cyber Initiative)
Nico van Eijk (University of Amsterdam, Information Law Program)
Eric Vandevelde (Gibson Dunn)
David C. Vladeck (Georgetown University, Law School)

Venue
The conference will be at New York Law School, Tribeca, NY USA



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