Welcome to Volume II of LST@Stanford

From the the New Director of the Program in Law, Science & Technology

Welcome to the fourth issue of LST@Stanford. This is my first issue as Director of the Program in Law, Science and Technology. I joined the Stanford faculty in May from the University of California at Berkeley, and took over leadership of LST from Professor Margaret Jane Radin, who is enjoying a well-earned leave. (Professor Radin continues to co-direct the Center for E-Commerce, one of the three constituent parts of the LST program).

As usual, there is quite a bit going on at LST this fall. Let me start with people. The law school welcomed our new dean, Larry Kramer, from NYU this summer. Dean Kramer is already hard at work, and one of his goals for the law school is to build our connections with other departments on campus. In the case of LST, this means we will be strengthening our ties to the Schools of Business and Engineering, and the economics department, with their top-notch scholars of innovation. We also welcome three visiting professors with interests in law, science, and technology: Professor R. Anthony Reese from the University of Texas School of Law, who teaches and writes in copyright, Internet law, and trademark law; Professor Eugene Volokh from UCLA Law School, who works at the intersection of copyright and the First Amendment, and Professor Christopher Leslie from Chicago-Kent School of Law, who teaches and writes in antitrust law and its relationship to intellectual property. We profile these scholars in this newsletter.

We also have a bumper crop of programs for lawyers and scholars this academic year. For example, on November 4, the LST Program’s Center for Internet and Society will host BloggerCon III, a conference discussing how the use of blogs can effect change—see http://www. bloggercon.org/iii/ for some preliminary discussions of this conference. LST will also cosponsor the 5th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute, which will take place on December 2 and 3 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. On January 28 and 29, LST will host the ABA Cyberspace Law Committee Winter Working Meeting. Then, on March 11, the LST program’s Center for Law and the Biosciences will hold its annual conference, which this year will be devoted to biotechnology patent law issues. Later in spring 2005, the LST program will organize a conference entitled, “The Law and Policy of Standard-Setting Organizations,” as well as its 2nd annual E-Commerce Best Practices conference. This is in addition to regular on-campus speaker series run by the Center for Internet and Society and by the Center for Law and the Biosciences.

We also welcome our third Law, Science & Technology LLM class. Students in the LLM Program in Law, Science & Technology come to Stanford Law School from around the world to focus for one academic year on the study of cutting-edge issues in law, science, and technology. The incoming students were selected from an application pool of some of the most talented young technology lawyers in the world, reflecting a wide array of experience, interests and professional specializations. This issue of LST@Stanford introduces you to the LST LLM class of 2005.

Finally, LST faculty and students continue to produce relevant and fascinating research. See our new “Recent Publications” section on this page for examples of this research.

In the pages of this newsletter, you will find news about some of the fascinating events that have recently taken place within the LST program, news regarding our many upcoming conferences, interviews with LST faculty members, and in-depth discussions of new programs. We’re looking forward to a great year, and we hope you can join us at some or all of our many events.

Sincerely,
Mark A. Lemley

William H. Neukom Professor of Law and Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, Stanford Law School; Of Counsel, Keker & Van Nest LLP
mlemley@law.stanford.edu