Saturday, March 28
8:30-8:55am Breakfast and Registration – Dining Hall
9:00-9:15 am Welcome: Why “Beyond IP,” and Whither the State? - Dining Hall
Amy Kapczynski and David Grewal
9:15-10:30 am What Innovation Should the State Promote?
Deven Desai – The Missing Link: The State’s Role in Fostering Discovery, Invention, and Innovation and the Difference Between the Three
Joshua Sarnoff – The Likely Mismatch between Federal R&D Funding and Optimal Innovation
Michal Shur-Ofry – Access to Error
Commentators: Brian Wright and Ian Ayres
10:30-11:00 am Coffee – Room 122
11:00-12:00 pm Institutions and Innovation
Daniel Hemel & Lisa Ouellette – Intellectual Property as Global Public Finance
Amy Kapczynski – Order Without Intellectual Property Law: A Case Study in Influenza
Commentator: Talha Syed
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch – Law School Dining Hall
1:30-2:45 pm Concurrent Sessions
Regulation and Innovation I
Orly Lobel – The Law of the Platform
Dan Burk – Perverse Innovation
Sofia Ranchordas – Innovation Law Under Uncertainty: An Experimentalist Approach
Commentator: Charles (Chuck) Sabel
Creative Production Without IP
Kevin Collins – Architectural Innovation Before the AWCPA
Lea Shaver – Publishing Without Property: Commons-Based Social Publishing and Its Implications for Educational and Book Policy
Yana Welinder & Stephen LaPorte – Hacking Trademark Law for Collaborative Communities
Commentators: Mark McKenna
2:45 – 3:15pm Coffee Break
3:25 –4:15 pm Concurrent Sessions
Regulation and Innovation II
Guy Pessach – Deregulation & Innovation Law—Piercing the Veil
Nicholson Price – Secrecy and Innovation
Commentator: Mark Lemley
Creative Production Without IP II
Peter Lee – Centralization, Fragmentation, and Replication in the Genomic Data Commons
Mike Madison – Governing Knowledge Commons
Commentator: Kate Klonick
4:15 – 4:30 pm Break Room 122
4:30-5:45 pm Keynote Presentation - Fred Block
7:00 pm Dinner for Conference Presenters
Sunday, March 29
9:00-9:30 am Breakfast – Room 122
9:30 – 10:45am The State and Open Innovation
David Grewal – Before Peer Producti on: Infrastructural Gaps and the Architecture of Openness in Synthetic Biology
Jorge Contreras –Consent and the Cathedral: Using Liability Rules to De-Propertize Genetic Data and Advance Precision Medicine
Commentator: Frank Pasquale
Human Rights, Equality, and Innovation
Jessica Silbey – Intellectual Property Reform Through the Lens of Constitutional Equality
Jessica Silbey – Intellectual Property Reform Through the Lens of Constitutional Equality
Esteve Sanz – Copyright and the Nation State: What We Can Learn From the Harmonization Efforts of the EU
Commentator: Gabriel Michael
10:45-11:00 am Coffee – Room 122
11:00-12:15pm The Entrepreneurial State
Camilla Hrdy – Cluster Competition
Liza Vertinsky – The State as Entrepreneur: Moving from Laws that Stifle to Laws that Foster
Robert Heverly – Incentives and Competition in Innovation Markets: A Study of the FAA Drone Test Sites Competition
Commentator: Becky Eisenberg
Format: Before the conference, every speaker (paper presenters and commentators) is expected to submit a paper draft on March 1. By Monday, March 16, every speaker will submit a short blog post to help set up the discussion. At the conference, every speaker has 10 minutes to present, leaving ample time at the end of each panel for Q&A.
Twitter hashtag: #BeyondIP