The 5th Annual
Privacy Law Scholars Conference
June 7-8, 2012

Hosted by the George Washington University Law School
at the Marvin Center, Washington, DC

The George Washington University Law School and Berkeley Law School will be holding the fifth annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) on June 7-8, 2012. The PLSC aims to assemble a wide array of privacy law scholars and practitioners from around the world to discuss current issues and foster greater connections between academia and practice. It will bring together privacy law scholars, privacy scholars from other disciplines (economics, philosophy, political science, computer science), and practitioners (industry, legal, advocacy, and government). Our goal is to enhance ties within the privacy law community and to facilitate dialogue between the different parts of that community (academy, government, industry, and public interest).

The PLSC is an annual event, alternating between Berkeley and GW Law Schools. Click below for the websites of:

1st Annual PLSC of 2008, held at GW Law School on June 12-13, 2008.

2nd Annual PLSC of 2009, held at Berkeley Law School on June 4-5, 2009.

3rd Annual PLSC of 2010, held at GW Law School on June 3-4, 2010.

4th Annual PLSC of 2011, held at Berkeley Law School on June 2-3, 2011.

Hosts: The GW Law School and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.

Organizers: Daniel J. Solove and Chris Hoofnagle

Participants: A list of participants is below.

Schedule: See below.

Location:

George Washington University Marvin Center
800 21st Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20052-0029
(202) 994-7470

Hotel Accommodations: We have negotiated a special rate at the Ritz-Carlton for $299/night. The hotel is nearby GW University's Marvin Center, where the conference will be held.  The hotel is about a 5 minute walk to the Marvin Center.

The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C.
1150 22nd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037

Please book by May 18th in order to receive the special rate.
 
To book online:
www.ritzcarlton.com/washingtondc
Group Code:   WULWULA

If you want to call to reserve, please call 1-800-241-3333. 

PRE-CONFERENCE RECEPTION ON JUNE 6, 2012

Microsoft has invited you (and your spouses/partners) to a pre-PLSC reception at the company's new offices, located at 901 K St.  NW, Washington DC. 20001.  Microsoft is on the 11th floor.  The reception will include members DC privacy stakeholder community.  The reception is from 6 PM - 8 PM on Wednesday, June 6th.  There will be a happy hour buffet with wine and beer.  Please RSVP to:  dcrsvp@microsoft.com

DINNER RECEPTION ON JUNE 7, 2012

Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington
1700 H Street, NW

Cocktails: 6 PM
Dinner: 7 PM

(Located 5 minutes walking distance from GW Law School)

DRESS CODE: The dress code requires wearing a suit, jacket or blazer and neck tie for men and commensurate attire for women. 

The organizers of this conference thank the following sponsors their generous support:

Paper titles, authors, and abstracts are listed in the schedule below. There will be 6 concurrent workshop session time slots, with 8 papers being workshopped concurrently during each time slot.

Because we have so many participants this year, 6 papers will be chosen for encore sessions.  Prior to PLSC, we'll ask you to vote on which paper should we workshopped twice.

Prior to the conference, please select the workshop you want to attend (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, or H) for each of the 8 time slots below.

Please select and download the papers for the workshops you wish to attend.

CLICK HERE FOR THE ABSTRACTS

IAPP Privacy Scholarship Award

We are delighted to announce the winners of the IAPP Privacy Scholarship Award:

* Alessandro Acquisti & Christina Fong, Will Johnny Facebook Get a Job? An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks

* Ira Rubinstein & Nathan Good, Privacy by Design: A Counterfactual Analysis of Google and Facebook Privacy Incidents

THURSDAY, JUNE 7

8:00 AM to 9:15 AM Breakfast (Grand Ballroom)

9:15 AM to 10:30 AM Workshop Session #1

10:30 AM to 11 AM Break

11:00 AM to 12:15 PM Workshop Session #2

12:15 PM to 1:45 PM Lunch (Grand Ballroom)

1:45 PM to 2:00 PM Voting on IAPP Paper Award (Grand Ballroom)

2:00 PM to 3:15 PM Workshop Session #3

3:15 PM to 6:00 PM Free Time

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Reception

7:00 PM Dinner

Location of Reception & Dinner:

Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington
1700 H Street, NW

(Located 5 minutes walking distance from GW Law School)

The club has been at its present site at 1700 H Street, NW, for more than one hundred years and will celebrate its sesquicentennial in 2013. As one of Washington's oldest and most valued private institutions, it has been a destination for many local, national and international leaders, including nearly every U.S. President since Abraham Lincoln. Since its founding in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, by six Treasury Department officials, it has pursued its primary goal of furthering "literary, mutual improvement, and social purposes."  

Dress Code: The dress code requires wearing a suit, jacket or blazer and neck tie for men and commensurate attire for women. 

FRIDAY, JUNE 8

8:00 AM to 9:00 AM Breakfast (Grand Ballroom)

9:00 AM to 10:15 AM Workshop Session #4

10:15 AM to 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM to 12:00 PM Workshop Session #5

12:00 PM to 12:50 PM Lunch (Grand Ballroom)

12:50 PM to 1:00 PM Remarks by Dean Paul Berman, GW Law School (Grand Ballroom)

1:00 PM to 2:00 PM Keynote by Jeff Jonas, IBM (Grand Ballroom)

2:00 PM to 3:15 PM Workshop Session #6

3:30 PM Closing Remarks (Grand Ballroom)