Thursday January 21 (morning)

Plenary session
(Simultaneus Translation French to English)

Chairman : Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren, Managing Director of the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law (ITM), University of Münster, Germany

9h00 : Registration
9h30 : Welcome Address(en français)
R. P. Michel Scheuer, Rector of the University of Namur (FUNDP)
The Belgian Priorities for ICT(in French)
Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne, Minister for Enterprises and Simplification
10h00 : Evolution of Privacy with regards to New Technologies(in French)
Prof. Dr. Karim Benyekhlef, Director of the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public (CRDP), University of
Montréal
10h30 : Electronic Commerce Law : Direct Regulation, Co-Regulation and Self-Regulation(in English)
Prof. Dr. Jane K. Winn, Director of the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce & Technology, University of
Washington School of Law
11h00 : Coffee Break
11h30 : New média? Old models? Reflection on the rule and its continuity in the Information Society. (in French)
Prof. Dr. Michel Vivant, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Docteur honoris causa of the University of Heidelberg
12h00 : The Evolution of the Regulatory Paradigm in Electronic Communications(in English)
Prof. Dr. Pierre, Larouche, Professor at Law Faculty and Director of the Tilburg Law and Economics
Center (TILEC), Tilburg University

Thursday January 21  (afternoon)

Choice between the two following workshops :

Workshop E- commerce : The Digital Evidence
(Language: French)

Chairman: Prof. Dr. Etienne Montero, Professor at the University of Namur and Dean of the Faculty of Law

14h00 : International Overview of Legal Approaches for Electronic Signature (in French)
Luca Castellani, Secretary of Working Group Electronic Commerce, United Nations
Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
14h30 : The Different Legal Aspects of Electronic Signature in Belgian Law
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Dr. Hervé Jacquemin, Head of the e-Commerce Unit of the CRID
15h00 : e-Discovery and Internet (in French)
Christophe Verdure, Researcher at the FUSL, Associate Researcher at the UCL and Former Référendaire et
European Court of First Instance
15h30 : Coffee Break
16h00 : Digital Evidence and Digital Archiving (in French)
Eric Caprioli, Attorney at the Court of Paris
16h30 : Digital Evidence and Privacy in Belgian and European Law (in French)
Prof. Dr. Paul de Hert, Professor at the VUB, Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS ) and
Associated-Professor in the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT)

Workshop Intellectual Property : The intellectual commons: from software to biotechnologies
(Language: English)

Chairman : Prof. Dr. Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Director of the Biodiversity Governance Unit at the Centre for Philosophy of Law, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL).

14h00 : Introduction to the open source model and its evolution (in English)
Philippe Laurent, Senior Researcher at CRID and Lawyer (Brussels)
14h30 : The commons in copyright (in English)
Valérie-Laure Benabou, Professor at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin, Director of the
Laboratoire DANTE (Droit des Affaires et des Nouvelles TEchnologies)
15h00 : Alternative systems to regulate the intellectual commons (in English)
Prof. Dr. Jerome Reichman, Professor of Law at Duke Law School, Durham, United-States
15h30 : Coffee Break
16h00 : From software to biotechnologies (in English)
Dr. Maria Iglesias, Head of the Unit « Intellectual Property » at CRID
Caroline Ker, Researcher at CRID
16h30 : Economic aspects (in English)
Prof. Dr. Yann Menière, Professor at the Centre for Industrial Economics at the Ecole des Mines,
Paris