Presenters were selected from a call for papers.
(Program to be published in Indiana Law Review)
Two junior scholars will have an opportunity to present their recent scholarship and to receive comments from more senior scholars. The scholars who will present were selected from a call for papers.
Professor Fagundes will present ―Explaining the Persistent Myth of Property Absolutism. He explores why non-lawyers persist in believing the Blackstonian account of despotic property despite legal rules to the contrary. Fagundes concludes that a combination of law and economics, behavioralism, and sociobiology might provide the answer.
Professor Ng will present her paper, ―Rights, Privileges, and Access to Information, and notes that modern technology can result in more stringent controls on access to information, although vastly reducing the costs of sharing information. She asserts that copyright protection is based on the Constitutional purpose of promoting progress, and proposes that the question of access to information is a question of sustainable resource use that should not evoke the exclusionary rights of a strict property rule.
The panel is intended to provoke audience discussion, and to give untenured faculty the benefit of comments on their work-in- progress by senior colleagues.