The Georgetown Technology Review is a new publication affiliated with the Georgetown Technology Law and Policy Institute that seeks to bridge the divide between technologists and legal practitioners struggling to understand each other's unfamiliar modes of thinking. Specifically, the Georgetown Technology Review features a modernized law journal model, wherein each issue is comprised of one thematic organizing legal article, accompanied by meaningful technology explainer pieces pertaining to the article, case comments, literature reviews, student notes, and relevant legal developments.
For the inaugural issue, the Georgetown Technology Review is soliciting:
- Main Article on pertinent developments in technology law, providing an in-depth treatment of legal issues (Approximately 6,000 words and/or 40+ pages)
- Literature Review pieces examining seminal literature on technology topics exploring whether the literature has held up since publication or whether technology law has evolved in an unexpected direction (Approximately 750 to 2,000 words)
- Case comments examining a major court case that impacted technology law and whether or not the case remains pertinent today, or the expected impact of newly decided relevant cases (Approximately 2,500 to 5,000 words)
While technology will serve as the publication’s organizing
principle–with the traditionally considered categories of privacy, intellectual
property, cybersecurity, and telecommunications covered extensively–the
Georgetown Technology Review will take a much more expansive approach to legal
subjects. Such topics to be explored may include healthcare technology,
e-Discovery, the impact of new legal services on the profession, and regulatory
approaches to new technology like self-driving cars, smart cities, and drones.
In keeping with the technological ethos and embracing the medium, the Georgetown Technology Review will be operated exclusively online and will be open access. Two core issues will anchor the semi-annual publication, in addition to a consistently updated flow of shorter content in the form of legal news and technology explainer pieces.