Programme

On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the Research Centre on IT and Law (CRID) of the University of Namur (Belgium) is organizing an International Conference dealing with the legal responses to the issues of the information society today and tomorrow.

This Conference will be divided into three parts :

Ø             An opening plenary session dealing with the four main fields studied at the CRID: "Liberties in the Information Society and Privacy", "E-commerce", "Intellectual property", "Electronic communication".

Ø             Four workshops about the particular subject and main issues raised in these fields, with mid and long-term perspectives: Electronic Evidence, Intellectual Commons (from software to biotechnology), Future Privacy Policies and the Building of a European Internal Market in Electronic Communications.

Ø            A closing plenary session presenting a summary of the main conclusions of each workshop. This summary will underline the close links between the fields that CRID deals with and of the relevance of an interdisciplinary approach to study them.

The Conference will be preceded by a doctoral seminar dealing with the different topics of the Conference.

Belgian and foreigner experts' presentations will be given in either French or English, at the speaker's choice. A Simultaneus translation will be available in the plenary sessions.

The Conference is aimed at both a Belgian and foreign audience (university researchers and academics, corporate lawyers, attorneys, judges, policy makers, etc) interested in a sharp analysis of the legal solutions given to current and future ICT issues.