State of Play Academy

More on the law and virtual worlds front... The State of Play Academy, the first law and technology academy built in a virtual world, is gearing up for some very interesting and free sessions in the next couple months.  Lauren Gelman writes:

I am delighted to announce the State of Play Academy (SOPA) Spring Semester will start Monday April 23 2007 and run thru June 8, 2007.  SOPA is a virtual space for conversations about law and technology located in There.com.

We are offering conversations in three tracks:
* Paper Workshops- presentations by scholars of papers related to law and technology.
* Issue Conversations- group discussions of current events and emerging issues in law and technology.
* How-to’s- practical advise on all sorts issues that confront ordinary Internet users.

More information, including how to log on and participate in SOPA classes at: http://stateofplayacademy.com/

We will be adding more classes as the semester progresses. I will add them to the website and post them on our blog. You can also join our mailing list to get regular updates to our schedule.
http://stateofplayacademy.com/mod/resource/view.php?id=20

Hope to see you in There!

-Lauren Gelman
Dean, State of Play Academy
Gelman at Stanford dot edu

They've got a great lineup talking about great topics, featuring, among plenty of others: James Grimmelmann (on search engines), Beth Noveck, Jen Granick, David Post -- and even our own guestblogger here this month, Elizabeth Townsend Gard. 

And these speaker sessions are all free -- can't beat that.

                        

Comments

[ron meiners]

Great news... it will be interesting to see what people think of the experience, as compared to that of SL. My sense was that it was more amenable in many ways, though, yes, I was community manager there for a time.

I think this illustrates too the resurgence of virtual options, as it were, for a variety of purposes. Though no doubt SL will continue to be a leading focus for social experimentation.