April Guest Elizabeth Townsend-Gard

We're happy, nay delighted, to welcome Elizabeth Townsend Gard and Rachel Goda as guest-bloggers this month on Terra Nova.  They'll be writing about  Fizzy Soderberg, Second Life, and first-year Property law.  You'll have to stay tuned for the details, but if you want a preview of the topic, check out this site. 

We'd like to thank Elizabeth and Rachel for visiting.  We're looking forward to some good conversations!

Elizabeth Townsend Gard is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Seattle University School of Law, and as of July 1, 2007, will be an Associate Professor at Tulane University Law School.  She holds a Ph.D. in European Intellectual and Cultural History from UCLA, and a J.D./LL.M. from the University of Arizona.  She is currently a non-resident fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, as well as Justice Faculty Fellow at Seattle University School of Law.

H. Rachel Goda is a second year law student at Seattle University. After majoring in Business Administration at the University of California at Berkeley she worked for Arthur Andersen as a management consultant. She is interested in researching legal issues surrounding virtual worlds, Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG), and video/PC games. Specifically: intellectual property issues, property issues, constitutional issues, and other cutting edge areas which current laws have not caught up with. Ms. Goda is originally from Japan and is fluent in Japanese.

Comments

[patrick]

1.

Welcome! Always nice to have some new perspectives.

[evden eve nakliyat]

2.

very very nice blog.thank you for your informations...

[Bruce Damer]

3.

Welcome to you both! Issues of property, governance, and agreements/disputes are a fascinating frontier in avatar and game-space! Larry Lessig touched on this way back in his book "Code and other Laws of Cyberspace" after we met at a lunchtime talk I presented on avatars at Computers, Freedom and Privacy in '97. It probably is the first thinking by a legal academic on the topic and worth looking up. You can find this reference http://books.google.com/books?id=VI4Ra0P53ZoC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&vq=avatars&sig=qaKNpHGNTxfbDZFC-q_tOGvejFI>here.