Of possible interest. DLB On 28 Aug 2005, InSITeS News wrote:

Renewed Call for Proposed Papers on Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Manuscripts Due October 1, 2006

I/S, a new journal published jointly by the Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies of the Ohio State University's Moritz College of

Law

and the Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS) at Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III School for Public Policy and Management, is planning to devote its Winter 2006 issue

to research on cybersecurity and public policy. L. Jean Camp, as guest editor, will be contributing an introductory essay to the issue.

Contributions from all disciplines are welcome, although our goal is to have the maximum effect on regulators, legislators, and other public policy makers in the field of computer security. (We are thus not focusing on "policy" in the sense of "institutional policy," for example, how firms should respond to the economics of cybersecurity and information protection.) It will be important to place your expert insights into a clear enough context to render your ideas accessible to an informed, but non-specialist public policy audience.

Proposals should offer original work that has not and will not be previously published in another venue, although it may be based on previously published research findings. The work should not simply offer the author's opinion, but should shed significant light on the topic presented through the rigorous presentation and analysis of evidence. We envision that completed articles should be roughly 10,000 words each, exclusive of references (but including textual footnotes). (Proposals for shorter, less formal essays, of no more than 5,000 words, that represent advocacy or more preliminary analysis, are also welcome.)

Please forward proposals as soon as possible to Sol Bermann, Managing Editor of I/S, at bermann.1@osu.edu. The proposal need not be longer than 1-3 pages, but should indicate whether a completed manuscript could be ready by October 1.

Because you may not have dealt previously with law journals or, if you have, you may have dealt with law journals edited entirely by students, some information about our publication process may be helpful. First, initial manuscripts will be submitted to at least one peer reviewer, whose comments we will expect authors to take into account in refining their work. Actual text editing, however, will be handled by law students. Second, our authors retain the copyrights to their work. You would be giving us a free, perpetual, nonexclusive license to publish your work, but we would not control your right to disseminate it in other forums in the future. For more information about I/S, see http://www.is-journal.org.

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