Beth Simone Noveck
Associate Professor of Law
Director, Institute for Information Law and Policy
Director, Democracy Design Workshop

Beth Simone Noveck, Associate Professor of Law, is director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy. She also directs the Democracy Design Workshop, a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary project dedicated to deepening democratic practice in the digital age. Professor Noveck is coeditor (together with Professor J.M. Balkin of Yale Law School) of the new book series Ex Machina: Law, Technology and Society (NYU Press).

Professor Noveck teaches in the areas of e-government and e-democracy, intellectual property, innovation and constitutional law. A founding fellow and project director of the Yale Law School Information Society Project, she concentrates her research and design on information and technology law and policy with a focus on the intersection between technology and civil liberties.

State of Play III: Social Revolutions is the third annual State of Play conference on the future of cyberspace convened by the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. This year, we focus on social relationships in the metaverse and how to build vibrant, flourishing, creative places. The conference will be held on October 7–8, 2005 at New York Law School in TriBeCa, New York City. We expect this third event to be the best yet, drawing leading voices in the online virtual world and videogame space together with legal and social thinkers to explore the next-generation of cyberspace and the legal implications of its massively-multiplayer, immersive and graphical environments.