Legal Commentary

I am at a terrific conference at American University, The Second Annual ISHTIP workshop. ISHTIP, the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property is a deeply interdisciplinary association, bringing together historians, philosophers, musicologists, art and literary scholars, politcal scientists, and legal scholars. It is also highly international. Last year's conference happened in Italy. This year presenters have come from Australia, Canada, France, Sweden, Germany, England and the U.S. The confernece takes an interesting format, in which the commentators present the papers and the authors merely react. I liked the format -- my paper, Innovation Motivation, was presented by David Lametti (McGill University) -- hearing your paper be presented by someone else is a very good learning process indeed. Soon the conference proceedings will be streamlined on the society's website.