UB Law School, Law Review to Present "Cyberlaw"Symposium

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Legal practitioners and scholars from around the nation will discuss theoretical and practical day-to-day issues of "cyberlaw" at a symposium to be held from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., on Saturday, March 8, on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

The second annual topical symposium presented by the Buffalo Law Review and the UB School of Law will feature more than a dozen presenters and panelists on issues relating to "cyberlaw," the developing law covering digital computer networks and internet works.

Topics will include the role of copyright on the World Wide Web, trademarks and territory on the global Internet, computers and the law, tort liabilities in cyberspace and visions of law and lawyers in cyberpunk science fiction.

The Buffalo Law Review will publish a special issue on the symposium.

Among the participants will be Edward A. Cavazos, author of "Cyberspace and the Law: Your Rights and Duties in the On-Line World" and adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center; Robert B. Charles, staff director and chief counsel of the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs and Criminal Justice; Frank A. Cona, adjunct professor at Drexel University and consultant to the Virtual Magistrate Project; Howard Meyer, author of "Boot the Courts: A Lawyer's Computer Primer" and lecturer at the UB law school, and David E. Sorkin, assistant professor of law at The John Marshall Law School and associate director of the Center for Information Technology and Privacy.

Panelists will include Joseph Bermingham of Bermingham & Cook, P.C.; Susan Schultz Laluk of Boylan, Brown, Code, Fowler, Vigdor and Wilson, LLP; Mark Pruner, president of Web Counsel Connect, LLC, and Tricia Semmelhack, Hodgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods & Goodyear, LLP.

For further information about the symposium, call the Buffalo Law Review at 716-645-2059 or visit the cyberlaw symposium web page at http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/blr/cyberlaw/