Bay Area legal blogger events on Monday : See you there

I‘ll be down in the Bay Area on Monday attending a couple legal blogging events. Hope to see many of you there. If you want to get together on the side, I’ll be there through Tuesday evening. Email me or call my cell, 206 321 3627.

From 12:45 to 2:00, the Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, and the Stanford Law & Technology Association (SLATA) are hosting a panel discussion on How Blogs Impact Legal Discourse.

From 6 to 8, at the San Francisco office of Fenwick & West, the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara Law School and Six Apart are putting on Bay Area Blawgers 2.0, the second gathering of legal bloggers in the Bay Area. There’s an hour of a structured discussion, offering 1 hour of CLE credit, with the rest of the time for’schmoozing/chit-chatting.’ Eric Goldman reports about 50 folks already confirmed.

The afternoon panel is free and lunch is on Stanford. The details:

Blogging about legal issues is a growing phenomena and a wholly new format for legal dialog and exchange. The panel will investigate and discuss how legal discourse is impacted by the advent and growth in blogging. There is an open call for questions to be presented to the panel, please email vcs@stanford.edu.

The panel is being moderated by Jonathan Zittrain, Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University, and co-founder of HLS’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Killer group on the panel:

• Ann Althouse, Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and currently a Visiting Professor at Brooklyn Law School prolific blogger (over 20,000 page views a day) at at Althouse.
• David Friedman, professor of Law at Santa Clara Law School who blogs at Ideas.
• Eric Goldman, an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law where he teaches Cyberspace Law and Intellectual Property, and who’s been publishing his Technology & Marketing Law Blog since 2005.
• Larry Solum, a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois, where he teaches philosophy of law, civil procedure, and constitutional law, and whose Legal Theory Blog is widely read by folks with an interest on how blogs are changing the face of legal scholarship.
• Joseph Gratz, an associate with the San Francisco litigation firm of Keker & Van Nest LLP, and has been blogging since 2003.

It’s at Stanford Law School – 280B. (Map)