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Dear  AIS
member
The Journal of
Virtual Worlds Research (http://jvwresearch.org/) is happy to announce
the call for this "Law and
Virtual Worlds" issue edited by
Melissa
de Zwart, Adelaide Law School, Australia
Greg
Lastowka, Rutgers School of Law-Camden,
USA
Dan
Hunter, New York Law School. USA
You can access this
call directly through our
website.
The
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://www.jvwresearch.org/) is an online, open
access academic journal that engages a
wide spectrum of scholarship and
welcomes contributions from the many
disciplines and approaches that
intersect virtual worlds research. The
field of virtual worlds research is a
continuously evolving area of study that
spans across many disciplines and the
JVWR editorial team looks forward to
engaging a wide range of creative and
scholarly work.
Motivation
and Scope
This
special issue will focus on
legal questions generated by the
creation, regulation and participation
in virtual worlds. We are
looking for papers that explore beyond
the basics of ‘the magic circle’
(asserting that virtual worlds are
immune from external laws and norms) and
consider emerging legal issues that may
encourage or inhibit the uptake of
virtual worlds. In particular, we
are interested in papers that adopt a
multi-jurisdictional focus and which
propose new ways that the legal issues
may be approached by developers and
regulators. Innovative and
creative papers are encouraged.
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Given
the audience and nature of the JVWR we
are looking for papers which are
accessible to a non-legal readership.
They should demonstrate a good awareness
of the nature of virtual worlds.
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Authors
are invited to submit papers that are
innovative, original, and contribute to
the advancement of understanding of law
as it applies to virtual worlds. Papers
will be considered by the Guest
Editorial Board and reviewed by expert
referees using our double -open
policy. Double-open policy
means that in general, authors
do not need to anonymize their papers,
and reviewers identity is also known
to authors. For more details
about see JVWR site --> About JVWR
--> For Authors --> Our
double-Open Policy.
Possible
topics include, but are not limited to:
- Jurisdiction and rule-making
- Governance and community management
- Player rights
- Virtual property
- Dispute resolution
- Intellectual property
- Modding, user-generated content
- Privacy, identity and data collection
- Security and hacking
- Crime
- Freedom of speech, freedom of
expression, discrimination, access and
hate speech
Submission
Instructions
Authors are invited to submit papers of up
to 6000 words (including footnotes and
references) via the JVWR publishing system
(see www.jvwreserach.org>
about > for authors). Accepted papers
will be published online in the Volume 6,
Number 2 of the Journal, 2013.
Deadlines
and Timeline
Authors
can submit a 600 word abstract as of the
publication of the call.
Please use
the Journal publishing system (login at
the top right of the journal site, state
that your submission is for the Legal
issue.)Â
Abstract
submission will give authors quick
feedback on the relevance and
appropriateness of their topic and allow
editors to identify reviewers as soon as
possible.Â
- Final deadline for Authors to submit
abstracts for Editors’ comments:
30 June 2012
- Editors submit comments on the
Abstracts to Authors: 30 Aug
2012
- Authors submit full paper: 30
Dec 2012
- Editors send Reviewers’ feedback on
the paper, and indication of acceptance
or rejection: 15 February 2013
- Submission of revised paper (if
necessary): 30 April 2013
- Editors’ decision and comments for
accepted papers: 20 May 2013
- Authors Submission of final version:
15 June 2013
- Staff editors & authors work till
planned Publication Date: 15
July 2013
Please
Contact
Melissa de Zwart, Adelaide Law School,
melissadez AT gmail.com
Dan Hunter, New York Law School, USA
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