3rd IDP Congress on Internet, Law and Politics Website
PROGRAMME



Monday May 7 2007

9:00 am
Registration and handing out of documentation
9:30 am
Welcome and inauguration
Imma Tubella, the UOC's rector.
Jordi Bosch, the Catalan Regional Government's Secretary-General for Telecommunications and the Information Society.

Presentation
Pere Fabra Abat, Director of the UOC's Law and Political Science Studies.

Keynote speech: The Future of Internet and How To Stop It
Dr Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute (OII).
11:00 am
Coffee break
11:30 am
Responsibility for content on the internet: state of the art and new perspectives

Speaker:
Dr Lilian Edwards, Professor of Internet Law. Law School, University of Southampton.

Second speaker:
Dr Miquel Peguera, Professor of Mercantile and New Technology Law, UOC Law Studies.

Moderator:
Dra Raquel Xalabarder, Professor of Intellectual Property, UOC Law Studies.
1:00 pm
The fundamental right to data protection: perspectives

Speakers:
Dr Yves Poullet, Director of the Centre de recherche informatique et droit (CRID), University of Namur.
Dr Lucas Murillo, Supreme Court magistrate, Professor of Constitutional Law.

Second speaker:
Dr Ricard Martínez Martínez, Professor of Constitutional Law, UOC Law Studies.

Moderator
Esther Mitjans i Perelló, Director of ACPD, the Catalan Data Protection Agency.
2:30 pm
Lunch
4:00 pm
Internet security

Paper:
"Email's judicial and penal dimension"
Mr Manuel Marchena Gómez, Supreme Court magistrate, lecturer at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Second paper:
"Investigation in Internet: International police cooperation structures"
Mr Antonio López, National Police Force inspector, Europol liaison officer, Spanish Desk.

Moderators
Dr Rosa Fernández, Professor of Penal Law, UOC Law Studies.
Dr Óscar Morales, Professor of Penal Law and lawyer with Uría & Menéndez.
5:30 pm
The new frontiers of copyright

Speaker:
Dr. John Palfrey, Executive Director. Berkman Center of Internet and Society Second speaker:
Dr Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet Governance and Regulation Oxford Internet Institute (OII).

Moderator:
Dr Ramon Casas Vallès, Professor of Civil Law, University of Barcelona.
7:00 pm
Award giving for the best speaker

Glass of champagne

Tuesday May 8 2007

10:00 pm
Electronic voting

Speaker:
Dr Josep Maria Reniu, Professor of Politic Sciences, University of Barcelona, and a specialist in electronic voting.

Second speaker:
Mr Gerard Cervelló García, Public Administration Manager at SCYTL.

Moderator:
Dr Rosa Borge, Professor of Political Sciences, UOC.

11:30 pm
Coffee break
Midday
The Law on e-Administration

Speaker:
Mr Juan Miguel Márquez, Director General of Administrative Modernisation at the Spanish Public Administration Ministry.

Second speaker:
Dr Julián Valero, Professor of Administrative Law, University of Múrcia.

Moderator:
Dr Agustí Cerrillo, Professor of Administrative Law, UOC Law and Political Science Studies, and Director of the UOC's Law programme.
1:45 pm
Lunch
4:00 pm
Round table: "Use of technology among law professionals"

"Lawyers and information technologies: uses and trends"
Dr Marta Poblet, researcher at IDT, the Law and Technology Institute,
Autonomous University of Barcelona,
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

"Notaries' application of ICT"
Mr Miquel Roca Bermúdez de Castro, notary.

"Uses of ICT in mercantile and property registers"
Dr Luis Fernández del Pozo, mercantile registrar.

Mr Pere Lluís Huguet, Dean of the Reus Guild of Lawyers,
President of CICAC, the Council of Catalan Lawyers' Guilds.

Moderator:
Dr Pere Fabra, Director of the UOC's Law and Political Science Studies.