Call for Papers: Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law – Hampsire, UK

October 30, 2013 - CALLS FOR PAPERS, Communications Law, Consumer Law, Cyberspace Law, Privacy Law - Tagged:

The First Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law will be held April 29, 2014 at the West Downs Campus, University of Winchester, UK.  “The conference aims to explore the way that information is used and shared in today’s society, the challenges of the assessment of risk, the impact on privacy, the law’s response and the way that a multi-disciplinary approach can facilitate solutions.”

The conference will address the role of trust and information in assessing risk and protecting the vulnerable, improving probability and risk assessment in the law, and the anonymisation of personal data, led by a panel of experts in the statistical, computer science, technology and legal fields.

Deadline: December 6, 2013. More details regarding submission below. im

Papers are particularly welcomed on the following themes:

  • Taking a risk: does the law deal with risk in the right way?
  • Trust & Transparency: freedom of information and open data as constitutional and      democratic issues;
  • Probability, evidence and the law;
  • Information and protecting the sick and vulnerable: assessing risk & balancing privacy and the public good;
  • Crime, surveillance and data analysis;
  • Big Data, profiling and social media.

Other papers which are relevant to the overall theme of trust, risk, information and the law will also be considered.

Selected papers will be reviewed for publication in a special section/issue of the Web Journal of Current Legal Issues.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words are invited for consideration.  Successful applicants will be allocated 15-20 minutes for presentation of their paper plus time for questions and discussion.  Abstracts, contained in a Word document or PDF, should be emailed to Marion Oswald at the address below.  Please include name, title, institution/organisation details and email correspondence address.  The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday 6 December 2013.  Successful applicants will be notified by 31 December 2013.  Speakers will be entitled to the early registration discounted conference fee.

For more information, please contact Marion Oswald marion.oswald[@]winchester.ac.uk