Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Announcing New Cyberspace Law – Student Authors and Intellectual Property Law – Student Authors eJournals on SSRN

We are pleased to announce the creation of Cyberspace Law – Student Authors and Intellectual Property Law – Student Authors eJournals within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). These eJournals are designed for submissions by students or others without or prior to receiving an advanced academic degree. They can include Law Review student notes or other student papers. CYBERSPACE LAW – STUDENT AUTHORS eJOURNAL View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cyberspace-Law-Student.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Cyberspace-Law-Student Editors: Ritu Gupta, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Harvard Law School, and Amy Rossignol, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Harvard Law School Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts dealing with all aspects of the regulation of cyberspace, whether that regulation is through law, social norms, or the architecture of the network. The approach of the eJournal is inter-disciplinary: We will abstract papers in law and in other related social science disciplines that raise issues related to the regulation of cyberspace. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: COPYRIGHT LAW – STUDENT AUTHORS eJOURNAL View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Intellectual-Prop-Copyright-Law-Student.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Intellectual-Prop-Copyright-Law-Student Editor: Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley – School of Law Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts dealing with research in the field of copyright law, broadly defined with respect to methodology (theoretical, empirical, experimental). INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: OTHER – STUDENT AUTHORS eJOURNAL View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Intellectual-Prop-Other-Student.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Intellectual-Prop-Other-Student Editor: Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley – School of Law Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts dealing with research in the field of intellectual property law outside of traditional patent, copyright and trademark law. Examples include research into trade secret law, competition law, privacy law and cyber law. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: PATENT LAW – STUDENT AUTHORS eJOURNAL View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Intellectual-Prop-Patent-Law-Student.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Intellectual-Prop-Patent-Law-Student Editor: Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley – School of Law Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts dealing with research in the field of patent law, broadly defined with respect to methodology (theoretical, empirical, experimental). INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: TRADEMARK LAW – STUDENT AUTHORS eJOURNAL View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Intellectual-Prop-Trademark-Law-Student.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Intellectual-Prop-Trademark-Law-Student Editor: Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Professor of Law, University

of California, Berkeley – School of Law Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts dealing with research in the field of trademark law, broadly defined with respect to methodology (theoretical, empirical, experimental).

UNDP Human Development Report Office Joins ERN Government & Public Agency Research Paper Series

We are pleased to announce UNDP Human Development Report Office has joined our ERN Government & Public Agency Research Paper Series within the Economics Research Network (ERN). UNDP HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT OFFICE RESEARCH PAPER SERIES View Abstracts: http://www.ssrn.com/link/UNDP-Human-Dev-Report-Office-GOV.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=UNDP-Human-Dev-Report-Office-GOV The Human Development Report 2013 Research Papers Series is an edited collection of original research papers commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) during the development of the 2013 Human Development Report, “The Rise of the South – Human Progress in a Diverse World.” The authors are preeminent scholars from various disciplines in the field of human development with particular expertise in the key issues explored in the 2013 Report. Their papers analyze the salient characteristics of the “Rise of the South,” examine social policy aspects of human development in these countries and development policy scenarios for the future, and consider implications of the rise of the South for global governance.