On May 24-25, several On the Identity Trail researchers and students will participate in an International Workshop on Anonymity in Bologna, Italy.  The workshop was jointly organized by a research group at the University of Bologna led by Giusella Finocchiaro, the University of Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society, and On the Identity Trail.  The workshop will comprise of presentations on the ‘right’ anonymity in three jurisdictions (Italy, Netherlands, and Canada), in preparation for the comparison in the final ID Trail book.  Carole Lucock will be present on the right to anonymity in Canada. The remainder of the workshop will comprise of individual paper presentations, including presentations by On the Identity Trail’s Steven Davis, David Matheson and Shoshana Magnet.

Following the joint international workshop, there will be an internal workshop on May 28-29.  The internal workshop will be dedicated to the discussion of draft papers for the ID Trail project’s final publication.  On the Identity Trail researchers participating in the workshop include: Jane Bailey, Jacquelyn Burkell, Rob Carey, Jennifer Chandler, Steven Davis, Daphne Gilbert, Marsha Hanen, George Tomlinson, Ian Kerr, Philippa Lawson, Mary O’Donoghue, David Matheson, Stephanie Perrin and Valerie Steeves.  Students participating in the workshop are: Jeremy Clark, Angela Long, Carole Lucock, Shoshana Magnet, Jena McGill, Jason Millar and Anne Uteck.  Also participating in the workshop are A. Michael Froomkin, Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law, and Charles Raab, Professor in Government at the University of Edinburgh School of Social & Political Studies.