Law, Technology and Development Workshop to be Hosted by Baldy Center for Law And Social Policy

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the University at Buffalo Law School, will present a workshop on "Law, Technology and Development" on March 29 in O'Brian Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The workshop, which has been organized by Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, UB professor of geography, and Shubha Ghosh, UB professor of law, will examine the issues of disparity in development and the diffusion of technology as they relate to globalization.

Global differences in economic and social well-being, according to the workshop organizers, can be traced to differences in levels and spread of technology. Technology, in broad terms, acts as a cause for both improvements in well-being and decline in well-being. Needed technology often is inaccessible while technologies for control of the workplace, devastation of the environment, and the spread of economic and political propaganda spread readily.

The workshop will examine such questions as:

o Is there a meaning to technology that is coherent?

o How are the goals of development reached through technology?

o What role do legal institutions play in matching the march of technology with the goals of development?

The workshop will be organized into four panels composed of internationally distinguished experts representing fields such as law, business and technology.

The panels will look at intellectual property rights, including intellectual property law as applied to the development and regulatory environment for the development and diffusion of technology, and globalization, including technology transfer, diffusion and dissemination from regional and global perspectives.

Presenters will be Daniele Archibugi, Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy; Kevin Davis, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; Lorraine A. Eden, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University; James Gathii, Albany Law School; Stuart Graham, Haas School of Business,

University of California, Berkeley; Ranjana D. Kadle, Hodgson Russ Attorneys, LLP, Buffalo; Zorina Khan, Department of Economics, Bowdoin College; Robin Paul Malloy, College of Law and Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University; Carlo Pietrobelli, Faculty of Law, University of Rome, Italy; Helen Lawton Smith, Centre for Local Economic Development, Coventry Business School & Oxford University, England; Susan Sell, Department of Political Science, George Washington University; Lawrence M. Sung, University of Maryland School of Law, and S. Visalakshi, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi, India.

For more information, go to http://www.law.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/lawtechdev03.html, or contact the Baldy Center at 716-645-2102.