Call For Papers: Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth Fifth Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation-Thursday, June 5, 2014 - Friday, June 6, 2014, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

(Deadline: February 03, 2014)

The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Fifth Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation. The conference will be held at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, IL. The conference will run from approximately 9:00 A.M. on Thursday, June 5, 2014 to 3:00 P.M. on Friday, June 6, 2014. There will be a dinner reception and keynote address on Thursday night.

OVERVIEW:

The conference is organized by Professor Daniel F. Spulber, Research Director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, Professor of Management Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, and Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law (Courtesy).

The goal of this conference is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern's own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high-quality research relevant to Internet search and innovation. The conference will cover academic work on Internet search and innovation, and the discussion will examine related public policy issues in antitrust, regulation, and intellectual property.

TOPICS:

Topics include:

• Internet search and antitrust
• Privacy issues in Internet search and marketing
• Competition and barriers to entry in two-sided markets
• Business method inventions and patents for Internet inventions
• The Internet, innovation, and intellectual property
• Market design, platforms, and e-commerce
• R&D and innovation in high-tech
• Open standards and entrepreneurship
• Data portability
• Cloud computing
• Joint work in economics and computer science on search algorithms and other topics related to Internet search

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Papers for the conference should be submitted to the following email address: editjems@kellogg.northwestern.edu

ATTENDANCE:

Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. Potential attendees should indicate their interest in receiving an invitation by sending a message to Derek Gundersen at d-gundersen@law.northwestern.edu

HONORARIUM:

Authors will receive an honorarium of $1,500 per paper. The honorarium is intended to cover reasonable transportation expenses. Government employees and non-US residents may be reimbursed for travel expenses up to the honorarium amount. Authors are expected to attend and participate in the full duration of the conference. If more than one author attends the conference, the honorarium or travel reimbursement will be divided equally between the attending authors.

The Searle Center will make hotel reservations and pay for rooms for authors and discussants for the nights of Wednesday, June 4, 2014 and Thursday, June 5, 2014.

REVIEW PROCEDURE AND TIMELINE:

Conference Papers Submission Deadline: Papers for the conference should be submitted to the following email address: editjems@kellogg.northwestern.edu by February 3, 2014.
Notification Deadline: Authors will be notified of decisions by March 3, 2014.
Potential attendees should send a message indicating their interest to Derek Gundersen at d-gundersen@law.northwestern.edu by June 2, 2014.

JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT STRATEGY:

The conference is organized in cooperation with the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), which is edited by Daniel F. Spulber. JEMS encourages submissions on Internet search and innovation. Submissions are independent of the conference. Authors presenting papers at the conference need not submit to JEMS and are welcome to publish their work in other venues (with appropriate acknowledgement of the Searle Center). To submit to the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, access ScholarOne at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jems

Papers prepared for the conference will be permanently hosted on the Searle Center website: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter

ABOUT THE SEARLE CENTER:

The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law was established in 2006 to research how government regulation and interpretation of laws and regulations by the courts affect business and economic growth. Information on the Searle Center's activities may be found at: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter

The Australian Law Librarians' Association Annual Conference: Making the C.A.S.E. (Collaborate-Advocate-Strategise- Sept. 10-12, 2014.

(Deadline: February 28, 2014- http://alla.asn.au/conference/2014/ALLA2014_CallForPapers_Int.pdf)

Make the C.A.S.E.:

C.A.S.E. [2014] ALLA 5000 

Collaborate – Advocate – Strategise – Educate 

The Australian Law Librarians’ Association Ltd is delighted to announce that the 2014 annual conference will be held from Wednesday 10th through Friday 12th of September 2014 in Adelaide, South Australia at the Adelaide Convention Centre. The conference organising committee is now accepting submissions and proposals for both presentations and 

workshops for this event. The programme is being designed to provide law librarians, knowledge managers and other legal and business information professionals with an intensive, relevant and engaging professional development experience.

Theme: The theme for 2014 is Make the C.A.S.E.: Collaborate – Advocate – Strategise – Educate. The 2014 conference brings together professionals for a thought provoking discussion on the four key foundation principles for legal libraries. It will focus on how law librarians can collaborate in a dynamic and responsive way to the expectations and needs of our industry and its clients. Through rigorous formulation and implementation of strategy, by advocating its talent and value to its stakeholders, by delivering timely and relevant education to its members, we use these principles to Make the C.A.S.E. for law librarianship.

Papers and Presentations Sought:

With this in mind the committee is looking forward to receiving submissions which examine and illustrate how we:- 

Collaborate:

• in the work place (with co-workers, lawyers, judges, management, IT - share an innovative project) 
• amongst peers (joint projects, other ALLA activities) 
• with industry partners (legal publishers, LMS providers) 
• between institutions (private law firms, universities, government agencies, law societies, not for profits) 

Advocate 

• for our profession 
• through marketing/profile raising in the workplace, the legal industry and general public 
• through strengthening and building industry membership 
• through mentoring programmes 
• through the development of product testing user groups 
• for access to authoritative government legal information online 
• for access to justice 

Strategise:

• through developing or re-establishing strategic relationships/partnerships 
• by prioritising and refocusing LIS to meet client needs 
• by effective engagement with our clients 
• by development of job descriptions 
• by embracing change in the industry 
• through effective use of new technologies 
• embedding services within practice areas and user groups 

Educate:

• ourselves in the broad scope of LIS activities, professional development (strategic planning, project 
• management, new technologies) and personal growth (communication, people skills) 
• ourselves about new research, current awareness solutions and social media platforms (provide advice to 
• best demonstrate a changing practice) 
• our clients in legal research training (reflect on successful techniques adopted) 
• library and information management students and graduates in the specialised area of law librarianship 
• our organisations in advances in information management and research technologies 

Presentation Formats Available: 

• Papers for plenary sessions 
• Individual papers for concurrent sessions (including 10 x 10 sessions – 10 slides in 10 minutes) 
• Panels (proposing multiple, complementary speakers on a single topic) 
• Practical workshop sessions (half day or full day) 
• Knowledge Café

Submissions Requirements:  

• Name 
• Position title 
• Organisation/company 
• Contact details 
• Format/type of presentation – individual/joint paper, panel, workshop 
• 300 word abstract 

Deadline:  

Submissions to be emailed by Friday, 28 February 2014 to: convenor@alla.asn.au. Alternatively, please provide your thoughts and ideas for topics and papers which would be of interest to convenor@alla.asn.au so that we can actively seek out presenters in these areas. 

Support: If you have not presented before and this is holding you back from sharing your skills and experiences we can recommend organisations and websites to help prepare you for this. There is plenty of time to develop and polish your skills so that you can present with confidence. Please contact us at convenor@alla.asn.au if you would like to discuss this further. 

THE AALL/LEXISNEXIS CALL FOR PAPERS COMPETITION

(Deadline: Open, New Member and Short Divisions: March 3, 2014. Student Division: May 15, 2014)

Have you been thinking of writing an article of interest to law librarians? The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee has just the incentive to get started. The Committee is soliciting articles in three categories:

Open Division: for active and retired AALL members and law librarians with five or more years of professional experience;

New Member Division: for recent graduates and AALL members who have been in the profession for less than five years;

Short Form Division: for AALL members; articles in this category will be shorter than a traditional scholarly article and may be appropriate for publication in AALL Spectrum.

Student Division: for students in library, information management, or law school. Participants in this division need not be members of AALL. To submit in this category, you must have been enrolled in law school or in a library school, information management, or equivalent program in the fall 2013 or spring 2014 semester.

Submissions in the Open, New Member and Short Divisions must be submitted by March 3, 2014. Articles in the Student Division must be received by May 15, 2014.

The winner in the Open, New Member, and Student Divisions will receive $650, and the Short Form Division winner will receive $300, all generously donated by LexisNexis, plus the opportunity to present their winning papers at a program during the 2014 AALL Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Winning papers in the Open, New Member, and Student Divisions are also considered for publication in Law Library Journal.  Papers in the Short Form division will be forwarded to the Editorial Director of AALL Spectrum for publication consideration.

For more information, a list of previous winners, an application and instructions on how to submit your article, please review the information below. Winning papers from earlier competitions can also be found athttp://works.bepress.com/aallcallforpapers. If you have any questions, please contact a member of the AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee.

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ALA Research and Scholarship Awards

(various deadlines) 

http://www.ala.org/lita/awards