[Air-l] Fwd: Renewed Call for Proposed Papers on Cybersecurity and Public Policy

[Dan L Burk]

Of possible interest.  DLB

On 28 Aug 2005, InSITeS News wrote:
>
> Renewed Call for Proposed Papers on Cybersecurity and Public Policy: 
> Manuscripts Due October 1, 2006
> 
> I/S, a new journal published jointly by the Center for Interdisciplinary 
> Law and Policy Studies of the Ohio State University's Moritz College of
Law 
> and the Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society 
> (InSITeS) at Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III School for 
> Public Policy and Management, is planning to devote its Winter 2006 issue

> to research on cybersecurity and public policy.  L. Jean Camp, as guest 
> editor, will be contributing an introductory essay to the issue.
> 
> Contributions from all disciplines are welcome, although our goal is to 
> have the maximum effect on regulators, legislators, and other public
policy 
> makers in the field of computer security.  (We are thus not focusing on 
> "policy" in the sense of "institutional policy," for example, how firms 
> should respond to the economics of cybersecurity and information 
> protection.)  It will be important to place your expert insights into a 
> clear enough context to render your ideas accessible to an informed, but 
> non-specialist public policy audience.
> 
> Proposals should offer original work that has not and will not be 
> previously published in another venue, although it may be based on 
> previously published research findings. The work should not simply offer 
> the author's opinion, but should shed significant light on the topic 
> presented through the rigorous presentation and analysis of evidence. We 
> envision that completed articles should be roughly 10,000 words each, 
> exclusive of references (but including textual footnotes).  (Proposals
for 
> shorter, less formal essays, of no more than 5,000 words, that represent 
> advocacy or more preliminary analysis, are also welcome.)
> 
> Please forward proposals as soon as possible to Sol Bermann, Managing 
> Editor of I/S, at bermann.1 at osu.edu.  The proposal need not be longer
than 
> 1-3 pages, but should indicate whether a completed manuscript could be 
> ready by October 1.
> 
> Because you may not have dealt previously with law journals or, if you 
> have, you may have dealt with law journals edited entirely by students, 
> some information about our publication process may be helpful.  First, 
> initial manuscripts will be submitted to at least one peer reviewer,
whose 
> comments we will expect authors to take into account in refining their 
> work.  Actual text editing, however, will be handled by law students. 
> Second, our authors retain the copyrights to their work.  You would be 
> giving us a free, perpetual, nonexclusive license to publish your work,
but 
> we would not control your right to disseminate it in other forums in the 
> future.  For more information about I/S, see http://www.is-journal.org.
> 

Dan L. Burk
Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor
University of Minnesota Law School
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