Professor Eben Moglen to give the SSCL Annual Lecture 2013: "Innovation After Austerity: Free Software, the Cloud and the European Crisis" - Wednesday 19 June 2013 - Edinburgh

When: 19/06/2013

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Speaker : Eben Moglen, Professor of Law, Columbia University



Professor Moglen proposes to discuss the legal and institutional framework for sharing-based innovation after austerity that can contribute to rescuing the European project.

The focus of his lecture will be that austerity has given birth to a European catastrophe and as young people in the European South confront the likelihood of permanent joblessness, innovation and robust economic growth are critically necessary throughout the continent to avoid social meltdown. He will consider the proposition that public resources for investment in innovation have been destroyed by imprudent gambling and even more imprudent austerity and that to survive Europe needs new economic engines for the prosperity of the rising generation. Free software, free culture and the techno-social environment they create have long enabled innovation without massive financial investment. Professor Moglen is to set out his view that the models of creation and technology that have been created can combine to provide what exhausted public treasuries cannot.



This promises to be stimulating and thought-provoking examination of how creative ability and technology can impact upon the global economic crisis.

Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's leading free software developers. He earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his "long, dark period" in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School – and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia since 1987. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society. Professor Moglen is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States Supreme Court.



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