Under various names – the Penn-Temple-Wharton (PTW) Colloquium, the Philadelphia Colloquium, the Cyberlaw Colloquium – and since 2016 the Lastowka Cyberlaw Colloquium – a small band of law professors has been meeting roughly once per year since 2002 to share scholarly work in progress and bat around ideas on themes related to “law and cyberspace.” The label seems increasingly anachronistic; as we head farther into the 2020s, “law and technology,” “law and information,” “TechLaw,” and other phrase each seem more apt. The Colloquium nevertheless carries on as it has. Until it changes.
The Colloquium has been distinguished by participants’ commitment to free-flowing and direct conversations, to limited (and even non-existent) formal presentations by those sharing their work, and to extended consideration of each work included on its agenda.
The history of the colloquium
- May 12-13, 2023: Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- April 8-9, 2022: Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 2021: COVID hiatus
- 2020: COVID hiatus
- April 25-26, 2019: Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts
- March 23-24, 2018: Washington & Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia
- February 3-4, 2017: Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- February 5-6, 2016: University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- May 29-30, 2015: University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- February 28-Marrch 1, 2014: The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- February 15-16, 2013: Villanova University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- May 11-12, 2012: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- February. 18-19, 2011: Rutgers University School of Law (Camden), Camden, New Jersey
- February 5-6. 2010 (originally scheduled for November 2009): snowed out
- 2009 (none held)
- November 7-8, 2008: American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC
- 2007
- October 20-21, 2006: Villanova University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- November 11-12, 2005: The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- November 5-6, 2004: Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- November 7-8, 2003: University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- November 8-9, 2002: The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Participants
Participants over the years have included:
- Derek Bambauer
- Ann Bartow
- Robert Brauneis
- Dan Burk
- Michael Carroll
- Julie Cohen
- Joshua Fairfield
- Brett Frischmann
- Ellen Goodman
- Laura Heymann
- Margaret Hu
- Dan Hunter
- Michael Madison
- Andrea Matwyshyn
- Dawn Nunziato
- David Post
- Michael Risch
- Olivier Sylvain
- Polk Wagner
- Christopher Yoo
- Jonathan Zittrain
About Greg Lastowka
Greg Lastowka was a founding member of what was originally known as the Penn-Temple-Wharton Colloquium and later a professor at Rutgers University School of Law (Camden). He died in 2015, and in 2016 the informal leadership of the Colloquium, together with his family, named the event in his memory.
Remembrances of Greg and his life and career can be found here, here, and here.