oct
6
2009
Cloud Law, Finance 3.0, and Digital Institutions: A Report from the Berkman Center's Law Lab
John Clippinger, Urs Gasser, and Oliver Goodenough
Tuesday, October 6, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett
Street, second floor
RSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.
The Berkman Center Law Lab is a project devoted to investigating
and harness the varied forces — evolutionary, social, psychological,
neurological and economic — that shape the role of law and social norms
as they enable cooperation, governance and entrepreneurial innovation.
Through open observational and experimental web-based platforms and
open source software, the Law Lab is seeking to understand and develop
new digital institutions and research tools that can foster innovation
and deepen our understanding of trust, transparency and human
cooperation.
Recent research has focused on exploring the core mechanisms
associated with online governance and entrepreneurial models,
including, for example, new understandings of reputation, identity,
and security systems; new models for private law setting; and new opportunities for the creation of
scalable groups. This discussion will focus on the progress made this
year on sector-specific
use cases, including Finance 3.0; Vermont Digital LLC; and ODR in civic
participation.
About
John
Henry Clippinger is Co-Director of The
Law Lab at Harvard
University, a new
multi-disciplinary center founded to research the role of social, neurological,
and economic mechanisms on the role of law in facilitating cooperation and
entrepreneurial innovation. The goal of The Law Lab is to conduct controlled
and open experiments on the Web and to develop open source software to
facilitate the growth of a wide range of “digital institutions” to enable
innovation and cooperation. The Law Lab is designed to be a global
collaborative network of university, non profit and industry partners and is
supported by a grant from the Kauffman Foundation.
Urs Gasser is the Berkman Center for Internet
& Society's Executive Director and co-principal investigator of the Law Lab. Before joining the Berkman Center
in this capacity, he was Associate
Professor of Law at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland),
where he led the Research
Center for Information
Law as Faculty Director. Before joining the St. Gallen
faculty, Urs Gasser spent three years as a research and teaching fellow at the Berkman Center
for Internet & Society at Harvard
Law School, where he was appointed Faculty Fellow in
2005. At the Berkman Center,
he was the lead fellow on the Digital Media Project, a multi-disciplinary
research project aimed at exploring the transition from offline/analog to
online/digital media. He also initiated
and chaired the Harvard-Yale-Cyberscholar Working Group, and was a visiting
researcher at Harvard
Law School
in the 2003/04 academic year.
Oliver R. Goodenough is Co-Director of The
Law Lab at Harvard
University and is currently a fellow at The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, a Professor of Law at the Vermont Law School and an Adjuct Professor at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. He has also held appointments as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Neurology at Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge
and a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a
Research Fellow of the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral
Research, and heads its Planning and Programming Committee.
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