When: 08/12/2022
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Prices:
Non-member: £300.00
Professional member: £150.00
Analysing the impact of the metaverse and related technologies on the law and exploring policy options
Hosted and sponsored by: Queen Mary University of London
Date: Thursday 8 December 2022
Time: 2 pm – 6 pm
Venue (In-person): The Octagon, Queens' Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS - and also online for those who wish to attend remotely. Map
Whether it is the successor in state of Web 2.0 or a hype is yet to be decided, but it is likely that some form of metaverse and its related technologies are here to stay, representing fertile grounds for business, artistic, educational and personal development. The feasibility of those developments depend both on the technology and on the existence of a well-defined regulatory framework that provides legal certainty. At times when the legal and regulatory implications of the metaverse are not clear, understanding the trends and options becomes peremptory for legal practitioners, businesspersons, academics and policy makers, to have the ability to meet clients and society’s expectations.
SCL, with the mission to inform and educate legal and technology professionals, academics and students and the wider audience on the impact of IT on law and legal practice, is co-organising the 2022 SCL Policy Forum, to analyse the impact of metaverses and related technologies on the law and explore policy options. SCL has teamed up with Queen Mary University of London, QMUL, a Russell Group university premier in the development of new technologies and the analysis of the relationship between law and technology, with its School of Business and Management, the Centre for Commercial Law Studies and the Digital Environment Research Institute.
The SCL Policy Forum will take place on the afternoon of 8 December 2022 at QMUL and after discussing the different meanings of metaverse, it will address privacy in the metaverse, intellectual property issues in virtual environments, avatars harmful behaviour, and metaverses and the future of work. Each of the topics will be discussed by a panel of experts from industry, academia, legal professions and policy makers.
Speakers:
Professor Richard Susskind OBE, President, Society for Computers and Law
David Satola, ICT Lead Counsel, The World Bank
Lord Clement-Jones CBE, Co-Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on AI
Dr Fernando Barrio, Trustee, SCL, Senior Lecturer in Law, SBM QMUL
Barry Scannell, Consultant at William Fry, Dublin
Benson Egwuonwu, Associate, DAC Beachcroft
Rachel Bence, Chief Information Officer, Queen Mary University of London
Maria Mexi, Geneva Graduate Institute
Martin Pino, Professor of Law at the Facultade do Baixo Parnaiba- FAP, Brazil
Dr Michaela MacDonald, Lecturer at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, QMUL
Dr Andres Guadamuz, Reader in Intellectual Property Law, University of Sussex
Leandro Toscano, Head of the Business Development Unit, World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center
Mauricio Figueroa, Lecturer at Universidad Autonoma de Mexico/Newcastle School of Law
Professor Julia Hörnle, Queen Mary University of London
Professor Greg Slabaugh, Director of the Digital Environment Research Institute, DERI, QMUL
Professor David Leslie, Director of Ethics and Responsible Innovation Research at The Alan Turing Institute
Programme:
13:30 - 14:00: Registration
14:00: Introduction
Professor Greg Slabaugh, Director of the Digital Environment Research Institute, DERI, QMUL
14:15 - 14:30 The Metaverse: future or fuzz?
Barry Scannell, Consultant at William Fry, Dublin
14:30 - 15.15: Privacy in the Metaverse
David Satola, ICT Lead Counsel, The World Bank
Mauricio Figueroa, Lecturer at Universidad Autonoma de Mexico/Newcastle School of Law
Dr Fernando Barrio, Trustee, SCL, Senior Lecturer in Law, SBM QMUL
15:15 - 16.00: Intellectual Property in the Metaverse
Dr Michaela MacDonald, Lecturer at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, QMUL
Dr Andres Guadamuz, Reader in Intellectual Property Law, University of Sussex
Leandro Toscano, Head of the Business Development Unit, World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center
16:00: Coffee break
16:15 - 17:00: Regulation and Policing of Harm in the Metaverse
Lord Clement-Jones CBE, Co-Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on AI
Professor Julia Hörnle, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
Benson Egwuonwu, Associate, DAC Beachcroft
17:00 - 17:45 - The Future of Work and the Metaverse
Rachel Bence, Chief Information Officer, Queen Mary University of London
Maria Mexi, Geneva Graduate Institute
Professor David Leslie, Director of Ethics and Responsible Innovation Research at The Alan Turing Institute
Martin Pino, Professor of Law, FADESA - Faculdade para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Amazônia, Brazil
17:45 - Closing remarks:
Professor Richard Susskind OBE, President, Society for Computers and Law
18.00: Close of Policy Forum and Drinks Reception
Administration notes:
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