CALL FOR PAPERS: AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIVATE LAW

Working title: Legal aspects of mobile commerce and pervasive computing

The Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, and the International Journal of Private Law, hereby invites you to submit manuscripts for peer-review as part of the project with the title of “Legal Aspects of Mobile Commerce & Pervasive Computing”. Selected manuscripts will be published in a special edition of the International Journal of Private Law (IJPL). The research activity is funded by the National Danish Research Fund for Social Sciences. For more information about the project please refer to our homepage at, http://www.asb.dk/article.aspx?pid=19387.

The purpose of the project is to identify and analyze legal aspects of privacy, marketing, contracting, and liability in mobile commerce and in pervasive computing networks associated with mobile commerce, and to present solutions to the problems which the analysis reveals.

Themes:
Mobile commerce and pervasive computing are issues that create new commercial opportunities. At the same time they raise problems in relation to the legal framework that surrounds them. The purpose of the present project is to identify and analyze selected legal research issues in the emerging area of mobile commerce and pervasive computing. The project focuses on marketing, privacy, contract law and liability issues and interrelated issues, e.g. jurisdiction and enforcement and self-regulation. As the solution of legal problems may call for certain technical solutions which should be anticipated in business cases, the project focuses on technological aspects as well. To illustrate the research questions and broaden out the discussions on different solutions, the project will focus on comparative aspects of mobile commerce and pervasive computing as seen in various parts of the world, e.g. in Europe, the US, Australia and Brazil.

The coordinators are associate professor Pernille Wegener Jessen, professor Hans Henrik Edlund and associate professor René Franz Henschel, Department of Business Law, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, in cooperation with professor Sylvia Kierkegaard, CCU and Editor, IJPL.

Details:

Abstract must be submitted by FRIDAY APRIL, 3^rd, 2009 (the week following Easter Holidays), latest. If desired, this abstract will then form a part of a short presentation on a project seminar to be held MONDAY April 20^th AND TUESDAY APRIL, 21^st 2008, in Aarhus, Denmark. The final manuscript for peer-review must be submitted on or before June. 1^st, 2009.

If you have questions please mail René Franz Henschel, Aarhus School of Business, [log in to unmask] or phone + 45 23 11 74 18 or + 45 89 48 63 36

Best regards,

Hans Henrik Edlund

Professor, ASB

René Franz Henschel

Ass. Professor, ASB

Pernille Wegener Jessen

Ass. Professor, ASB

Sylvia Kierkegaard

Professor, CCU

Editor, IJPL