Kate Epstein Lunch Time Talk
Kate Epstein Lunch Time Talk
Please join us as Professor Kate Epstein (Rutgers University) discusses "The Border of National-Security Information."
"The modern military-industrial complex has its origins in turn-of-the-century naval development, when governments began to invest in private-sector technology during the experimental phase. The involvement of multiple parties in the work of invention led to disputes over intellectual property between governments and firms. The US and British governments asserted their claims aggressively, learning to convert the legal category of "intellectual property" into the policy-oriented category of "national-security information." The borders constructed between intellectual property and national-security information in turn tended to harden national borders against the free flow of scientific and technological information. Understanding the construction of these boundaries suggests a new way of thinking about public-private sector relations in two liberal nations."
Lunch is free and open to all. Please RSVP to millercenter@umd.edu
For more on Professor Epstein, see http://katherineepstein.rutgers.edu/