Call for Papers: SECOND WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR RESEARCHERS ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION LAW

Posted by D. Daniel Sokol

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

          SECOND WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR RESEARCHERS ON THE LAW

     AND ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION LAW

     From June 5 to June 7, 2011, the International Max Planck 

     Research School for Competition and Innovation - 

     http://www.ip.mpg.de/go/ipmrs-ci - and the Professorship 

     for Intellectual Property at ETH Zurich -

     http://www.ip.ethz.ch - will jointly organize their Second 

     Workshop for Junior Researchers on the Law and Economics of 

     Intellectual Property and Competition Law.

     The workshop will enable a small number of junior 

     researchers from law and from economics to engage in an 

     intensive, rigorous discussion of their own scholarly work. 

     Several senior professors from law and from economics

     departments in Europe and the United States will provide 

     feedback on the research projects. Commentators include 

     faculty of both hosting institutions as well as Professors 

     Dan L. Burk (University of California at Irvine), Michael 

     Meurer (Boston University), and Timothy Simcoe (Boston 

     University).

     The workshop will be held in Wildbad Kreuth, a lovely 

     region one hour south of Munich, Germany. The organizers 

     will fund travel and hotel expenses for all invited 

     workshop participants.

     APPLICATION PROCEDURE:

     Excellent junior researchers (doctoral students, postdocs, 

     research fellows and assistant professors) from law and 

     from economics are invited to submit their application 

     online at:

      http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipcomp_2011

     PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

     After registering a user account, please fill out the "New 

     submission" form. You must attach an extended abstract or a 

     draft paper ("Upload Paper", PDF or Word) as well as a 

     curriculum vitae with a list of two references 

     ("Attachment", PDF or Word) in order to complete the 

     submission. Incomplete submissions will not be accepted; 

     reference letters are not required at the time of 

     submission. 

     The submission deadline is February 28, 2011. 

     Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by March 21, 

     2011. 

     Papers are due for circulation among workshop participants 

     and commentators on May 15, 2011. For junior researchers 

     from economics, research projects should relate to 

     industrial organization, competition, innovation and/or 

     intellectual property and may include formal models as well 

     as empirical or experimental approaches. For junior 

     scholars from law, research projects should relate to 

     intellectual property and/or competition law and must use 

     law and economics as a research methodology. In order to 

     achieve a good international mix of workshop participants,

     submissions from researchers from outside Europe are 

     particularly encouraged.

     FURTHER INFORMATION:

     The International Max Planck Research School for 

     Competition and Innovation is a joint initiative by the Max 

     Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition 

     Law as well as the Department of Economics, the Munich 

     School of Management, and the Faculty of Law of the Ludwig 

     Maximilians University of Munich. Any questions concerning 

     the workshop should be directed to:

     CONTACT:       Prof. Stefan Bechtold

     Email:         sbechtold@ethz.ch

     Tel:           +41-44-632-2670