Schedule

Thursday, 22 February, 2001

8:15am
WELCOME: W. Lee Hansen (Economics) — Conference ChairAcademic Freedom in a New Era of Intellectual Property Rights
8:20am
Robert O’Neil (Law) University of Virginia Law School
Academic Freedom and Intellectual Property — Contentious but CompatibleGreg Moses (Engineering)
Software Intellectual Property Rights: Who Owns, Who Benefits, Who Cares?

Lisa Livingston (Education)
The Intellectual Property Owner and User: Dual Roles of the Distance Learning and Online Course Educator

9:50-10:05am
BREAK
10:05am
Intellectual Property Rights Issues
Carl Gulbrandsen, and Howard Bremer, WARF Director, and WARF Legal Consultant
The Autonomous University: Assuring Academic Freedom Through University Ownership of Intellectual PropertyHector DeLuca (Biochemistry)
Patents and Intellectual Property: Do They Belong to the Inventor?

Lloyd Smith (Chemistry)
Stepping Out of the Ivory Tower: The Hazards of Commercially Significant Research in a University Setting

Fred Blattner (Genetics)
Implications of Data Release Policy by Funding Agencies

Virginia Hinshaw (Graduate School)
Technology Transfer: A Social Responsibility of Research Universities

12:00-1:15pm
LUNCH
1:15pm
New Ethical Issues in Academe
Pilar Ossorio (Law)
Academic Freedom, Intellectual Property, and Conflicts of InterestRobert Streiffer (Philosophy)
Academic Freedom, Biotechnology, and Ethics

Gordon Baldwin (Law)
The Hazards of Speaking Freely: The Henry Barschall Case

3:00-3:15pm
BREAK
3:15pm
Protecting the Speech Rights of Invited Campus Speakers
John Jenkins (History)
Laying Out the Welcome Mat at UW-MadisonSteve Robinson (Industrial Engineering)
Campus Responses to Disruption at the Ward Connerly Speech
5:00pm
ADJOURN

Thursday Evening, 22 February, 2001

7:30-9:30pm
Public Lecture Invited Speaker
Alan Charles Kors (History) — University of Pennsylvania
Selective Campus Enforcement and the Betrayal of Liberty

Friday, 23 February, 2001

8:15am
Campus Speech Issues
Donald Downs (Political Science)
Celebrating Free Speech and Academic FreedomCharles Cohen (History)
The Academic Freedom of Students
9:45-10:00am
BREAK
10:00am
Viewpoint Neutrality and Free Speech
Robert Drechsel (Journalism)
Southworth vs. Board of Regents: More or Less Than Meets the Eye?Scott Southworth (Plantiff in the Segregated Fee Case)
Observations on Viewpoint Neutrality

Two Student Views: Hasdai Westbrook, Daniel Goldman

An Outsider’s View: Thomas Still (Wisconsin State Journal)

12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00pm
Conflicting Views on Speech Issues: The Reebok Case
David McDonald (History)
Tripping Over Their Own Shoes: The Reebok Contract and Free Speech at the University of Wisconsin, 1996Robert McChesney (Journalism) — University of Illinois-Champaign
Commercial Speech, Conservatism, and the University Tradition
2:00pm
Assuring Due Process in Administrative Investigations of Faculty
Steve Underwood (Private Attorney)
Puppet Strings of Academic Freedom: Disciplinary Processes and the Boundaries of Freedom of Will and Expression in AcademeStanley Payne (History)
Reflections on Disciplining Faculty Members
3:00-3:15pm
BREAK
3:15pm
Faculty Speech and University Governance
J. David Cronon (History)
Form Versus Substance: The Decline of Faculty Influence at UW-MadisonCommentators: James Baughman (Journalism), John Harriman (Chemistry), and Brent McCown (Horticulture)
5:00pm
ADJOURN