News


December 04, 2007
Dinner at FORTUNE RESTAURANT, 23rd floor, China Resources Hotel at 19.00.

December 03, 2007
The final programme is now available and can be downloaded by clicking here.

November 27, 2007
We have only ordered a limited number of books in China as most of the books will be printed in Europe. If you wish to order more books, please let me know before the Conference date. The book costs 25 Euro. The International edition will be available in January and would cost substantially more because of the VAT and postage.

November 27, 2007
FOR HOTEL GUESTS

Those who booked and paid their hotels through Harmony Travel are advised to inform the front desk of China Resources Hotel when they check in that they are in China to participate in a BUSINESS ACTIVITY (not Conference).

Please quote Registration number 203404. If you run into any problems with the hotel, kindly get in touch with:
Mr Hu Xinlong. huxinlong@global-travel.com.cn
Tel: 86-10-51655577/828
Mobile:13466704204

November 22, 2007
A preliminary programme has been uploaded. To view the programme in pdf format, click here.

November 18, 2007
Please send a copy of your power point presentation to Weiguang Wu. His email address is: wuweiguang@gmail.com lawwwg@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

November 18, 2007
Joseph Savirimuthu is organising a Roundatable. For more details, please visit http://www.liv.ac.uk/law/ielu/round_table/web2.htm

October 13, 2007
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by our faulty server. The problem has been fixed and the Registration system now works.

You can send your registration form to:
registration@lspi.net or registration@kierkegaard.co.uk

October 13, 2007
The IPIL Visiting International Scholars Program (VISP) at the University of Houston Law Center is designed to facilitate research on Intellectual Property & Information Law (IPIL) by foreign scholars.  The IPIL Institute at the University of Houston Law Center has long encouraged international exchange of research and scholarly ideas in its field.

The Institute has now expanded those initiatives through the creation of the Visiting International Scholar Program.  The program is made possible by the active support of IPIL sponsors and provides funding for foreign scholars to participate in the UH Law Center community and pursue research in IPIL.

Complete details are posted at www.law.uh.edu/ipil/visp.html, including current support amounts and application timing.

October 04, 2007
Dr. Richard de Mulder is organising a conference on "Monitoring Safety and Security" on 9 november 2007. The conference is free of charge. For further details, download or click on the pdf file. Click here

October 03, 2007
We are proud to announce that Elsevier Publications will sponsor the 2007 Best Academic Paper and Best Student Paper Awards . Monetary prizes and plaques await the winners.

September 04, 2007
The LSPI Annals are ranked "Qualis International C" by CAPES. The "International" is the highest rank and scores 15 points for articles and published in the LSPI Proceedings. Click here.

July 10, 2007 - IN MEMORIAM

”We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-in a flash , in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable ,and we will be changed.” 1 Corinthian15:51










 Anton C Welgemoed (LLB, University of Pretoria) and (LLM, University of South Africa) had been with the Department of Criminal and Procedural Law at the University of South Africa for the past two and a half years. As researcher he was involved with research projects for committees and professional associations. He had done research at both the universities of Harvard and Stanford in the following fields: Media law, Military law, Environmental law, Transboundary Transport law and Internet law. He completed his articles at WGB Attorneys and was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2006. He practiced as an attorney until joining the University of South Africa where he was a lecturer in Media and Communication Law. In 2007 he completed his LLM degree with a dissertation entitled: “Media law: Aspects of the newsgathering functions of journalists in a conflict zone”. He passed away on July 9, 2007.