This Friday (1/29): Lecture by Julie Cohen, “The Structural Conditions of Human Flourishing in the Information Society.”

Dear class,

I'd like to bring to your attention a lecture, which may be of interest to many of you. It will take place on Friday, January 29 at noon in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall.

Julie Cohen, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, will deliver a lecture entitled “The Structural Conditions of Human Flourishing in the Information Society.” Her talk will be based on her upcoming Yale University Press book The Networked Self: Copyright, Privacy, and the Production of Networked Space.

The lecture is co-sponsored by the Information Society Project and the Yale University Library, and is part of the library’s Copyright Lecture Series. See http://yaleisp.org/2010/01/julie-cohen-2/ for announcement.

Julie E. Cohen teaches and writes about intellectual property law and privacy law, with particular focus on copyright and on the intersection of copyright and privacy rights in the networked information society. She is a co-author of Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Aspen Law & Business, 2d ed. 2006), and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Knowledge. From 1995 to 1999, Professor Cohen taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. From 1992 to 1995, she practiced with the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation. Professor Cohen received her A.B. from Harvard University and her J.D. from the Harvard Law School, where she was a Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She is a former law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.