DEADLINE in TWO WEEKS -- $1,000 plus travel -- 09/10/2008 deadline (essay or appellate brief) -- Terasem

Call for papers: Terasem

Requirements, Track A: Interested participants must submit, no later than September 10, 2008, a 6,000 - 10,000 word (including footnotes) analysis of the legal rights and obligations of futuristic persons, also known as Transbemans. “Transbeman” is defined as a being who claims to have the rights and obligations associated with humans, but is beyond currently accepted notions of legal personhood. (Examples would include a computer claiming to be conscious; a person successfully revived from post-mortem cryonic biostasis; or a person’s downloaded cyberconsciousness in a bionano body).

Requirements, Track B: Interested participants must submit, no later than September 10, 2008, a 4,000 – 6,000 word (including footnotes) appellate brief in support or in opposition to the December 10th, 2005/2006 mock trial rulings in the matter of the BINA48 intelligent computer. Further details on the BINA48 Petition, as well as a webcast and transcripts of the mock trials, are accessible at: http://www.terasemcentral.org/archive.html