From Runnymede to Philadelphia to Cyberspace: The Enduring Legacy of Magna Carta
September 16, 2015
Brooklyn Law School will mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and Constitution Day in the United States with an extraordinary global gathering of renowned legal scholars, authors, artists, historians, public officials, librarians, and archivists from around the world for a wide ranging discussion of the continuing impact of this seminal document on US law, civil rights and liberties, art, the role of libraries and archives in the Digital Age, and law in order in Cyberspace.
Panelists:
John Perry Barlow, Co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation; entrepreneur, writer and lyricist (via Skype) (author of A Cyberspace Independence Declaration)
Daniel Berninger, Founder of VCXC – Voice Communication Exchange Committee
Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Technology Fellow with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project
Harry Halpin, W3C Staff and Research Scientist at CSAIL/MIT
Reed Hundt, CEO of the Coalition for Green Capital
Charles Nesson, Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Jeff Pulver, Co-founder of Vonage and Zula
Douglas Rushkoff, Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics, Queens College/City University of New York
Marina Sitrin, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Place and Politics at the City University of New York
— Event producer