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The law plays a crucial role in defining property rights and constituting markets. LAPA fellows appointed to this position will study important problems related to defining and regulating property. Issues related to information technology now loom especially large. Such issues embrace many areas of the law, including copyright, patent, antitrust, free speech, privacy, telecommunications law, tax law, and international trade law. LAPA will make a special effort to secure fellows who have some expertise relevant to information policy issues. The position may also support study of other topics related to the economic organization of society. For example, some countries are now seeking to establish free markets in societies dominated by distrust, corruption, or heavy regulation. Other countries must find ways to adapt institutions so that they remain competitive in the new economy of the 21st century. Whether their economies are old or new, countries must decide how to protect the interests of workers, how to ensure corporate accountability, and how to deal with the huge inequalities produced by modern capitalism.We anticipate that the Microsoft/LAPA Fellow for 2008-2009 will be involved with the growing group on the Princeton campus interested in intellectual property and information technology. As with the general Fellows program, the Microsoft Fellow will have the opportunity to teach a course at Princeton, subject to the approval of the Dean of the Faculty and the sponsoring academic department.

August 20 2008, Robertson Hall
September 11 2008, 12 - 1:30 PM, by invitation only
September 12 2008, 12 - 3 PM, location TBA
September 15 2008, Special time: 6:00 PM, location TBA
September 17 2008, 4:30 PM, Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
September 18 2008, 12 - 1:30 PM, by invitation only

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The 2008 J. Welles Henderson '43 Senior Thesis Prize winner has been announced. The prize carries a cash award and is awarded to the best senior thesis on a law-related subject. More