2019 Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC 2019)

PLSC is a paper workshop. There are no published proceedings, and after the event, papers are not available. Because authors’ drafts are works in progress, we do not publicly release these writings, nor do we publicize them (no Tweeting, blogging, etc.), as authors’ ideas are often inchoate and need incubation for full development.

At PLSC, papers workshops are led by a “commenter” who facilitates a discussion among participants on an author’s paper. Authors are encouraged to participate in “listening” mode. There are no panels or talking head events at PLSC.

All participants are expected to read and be prepared to discuss one paper per session (usually a total of 8 papers), and thus PLSC requires significant preparation. We recommended that participants devote 1.5 to 2 days of reading to prepare prior to the conference. One does not need to submit a paper to participate in PLSC–indeed most participants do not.

PLSC is an annual event, alternating between Berkeley Law and The George Washington University School of Law. PLSC is now in Europe as well–PLSC-Europe will be held Thursday and Friday, 24–25 October 2019, at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Participation is by invitation only and the event is beyond capacity (no longer adding to the waitlist). Last year, PLSC had 280 participants.

PLSC Final Program (Updated May 21)

International Association of Privacy Professionals Paper Award

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) is sponsoring an award for two papers presented at PLSC. The two winning authors will each receive $2,500 from IAPP, an opportunity to present the paper at the IAPP Privacy Academy 2017 (travel will be provided for up to two authors of each paper), and an opportunity to publish an abstract or summary of the paper in the Privacy Advisor. The criteria are overall excellence and relevance to the practice of privacy law. and the recipients are chosen by our program committee.

PLSC Program Committee

The PLSC Program Committee assists in judging papers for awards, and in selecting abstracts for inclusion in the conference.

• Franziska Boehm, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Ryan Calo, University of Washington
• Danielle Citron, University of Maryland Carey School of Law
• Julie Cohen, Georgetown University Law Center
• Deven Desai, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern University School of Law
• Kirsty Hughes, University of Cambridge
• William McGeveran, University of Minnesota Law School
• Paul Ohm, Georgetown University Law Center
• Paul Schwartz, Berkeley Law
• Priscilla Regan, George Mason University
• Neil Richards, Washington University Law

PLSC Co-Chairs

• Daniel J. Solove, George Washington University School of Law
• Chris Jay Hoofnagle, UC Berkeley Law & School of Information

Hotel Accommodations

• Claremont Club and Spa: 80 rooms, $299.99; to book room call 888.560.4455, group name is “PLSC Guestroom Block“; or go here to register
  (https://book.passkey.com/go/PLSCguestroom). Block rate expires April 29.
• Graduate Berkeley: 20 rooms, $339.00; to book room call 510-845-8981, group name is “2019 PLSC“. Block rate expires April 29.
• Hotel Shattuck Plaza: 50 rooms, $269.00; to book room call 866-466-9199, group name is UCBLAW19; book online using group code, UCBLAW19; or go here to register (https://reservations.travelclick.com/17233?groupID=2447879). Block rate expires April 30.

Participants (as of March 24, 2019)