Law and the Internet

Law 745

Please note: This page was the 1996 model. Click here for the Fall 1997 version of the seminar.

• Assignments
• Seminar participants
• Links to Student Papers
• Other resources

Assignments

1. Jan 10, 1996. Introduction.
   
2. Jan 17, 1996. What's Acceptable?
   
3. Jan 24, 1996. HTML and other fun things.
   
4. Jan 31, 1996. Cryptography.
   
5. Feb. 7, 1996. The Internet and the Export of Ideas.
   
6. Feb. 14, 1996. Anonymity on the Internet.
   
7. Feb. 21, 1996. Digital Cash.
   
8. Feb. 28, 1996. The Communications Decency Act.
9. Mar. 6, 1996. Electronic Commerce and Electronic Infrastructures
   
10. Mar. 20, 1996. The Church of Scientology and the Internet.
    
11. Mar. 27, 1996. Intellectual Property on the InfoBahn.
12. April 3 class postponed due to conflict with Passover
13. Apr. 10, 1996. Internet Gambling? (Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and the Power and Plight of Regulators
14. Apr. 17, 1996. The Karn Case (pt. 2).
15. Apr. 24, 1996. Deep questions.

Links to Student Papers from Previous Seminars

• Anonymous, Encryption: A Free Society's Dilemma
• R. Mark Bortner, Cyberlaundering: Anonymous Digital Cash and Money Laundering.
• Jon Cooper, Transmission Jurisdiction: The Power to Adjudicate False Advertising on the Internet
• Greg Desmond, Internet Stock Offerings
• Robert Feldman, Regulating Cyberporn: Who's Job Is It?
• Allison Kimberly Hift, Florida Municipalities in the Information Age
• Markus Jungo, Internet Commerce and the Protection of Personality Under the Law of Swizterland.
• Jordan Rappaport, Attorney Advertising on the Internet
• Mark W. Rickard, Virtual Casino. Illegal?
• Andrew Francis Ruf, Copyright Traffic Report on the Information Superhighway: The White Paper and the NII
• Theodore J. Sabo, Jr., Copyrighted Photographs in the Digital Domain: Caught in the Web or Falling Trhough the Net?
• David B. Schwartz, Protecting Your Page: Will Copyright Law Protect the Design of Your Web Page?
• Adam M. Schenck, ALT.BINARIES.WAREZ.*: The Case For the Internet Service Providers' Liability for Third Party Usenet Posts
• Jason Skier, The End of Fair Use? Or, The IITF White Paper as a Mechanism to Prohibit the Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials
• Bradley Silverman, The Effect of Ethical Rules on Attorney Advertising on the World Wide Web
• Jeffrey D. Weinstock, Online Stings: High Tech Entrapment or Innovative Law Enforcement?

Other resources

• Papers on uses of communications media by Phil Agre's brilliant students at UCSD
• Berkeley's LIS 190 or UGIS 170 Ethics of the Internet Syllabus
• Berkeley's Hal Varian's List of Economic FAQ's About the Internet
• CFP96@MIT -- Schedule of Events
• University of Chicago: Larry Lessig's The Law of Cyberspace
• Columbia's Computers and the Law
• CSC 379: Ethics and the Internet
• Wendy Robinson at Duke's Ethics & the Internet
• Duke's Lit 20.3 Imagining the Future
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Legal Issues and Policy: Cyberspace and the Law" Archive. Also don't miss the "Legal Cases Archive".
• FindLaw: Cyberspace Law
• Taming the Electronic Frontier George Mason Univ. - Brad Cox (Spring 1995)
• Law and the InternetGeorgia State Univ. - Patrick Wiseman (Summer 1995)
• GWU's Cryptography Book
• A Law of Cyberspace?John Marshall Law School (Fall, 1995)
• David Loundy's E-LAW Web Page
• Public Policy and legal Regulation of the Information Market -- by Stephen Saxby
• Informatie over het seminarie Recht en Informatica (U. Luven, Belgium)
• Internet Law HypercourseUniv. of Massachusetts, Dept. of Legal Studies - Ethan Katsh
• Information Networks Policy Univ. of Michigan - Jeffrey K. MacKie- Mason (Winter 1994)
• Interesting paper ideas from U. Mich.
• MIT's Creative Cryptoanarchy and Information Economics.
• MIT Research Program on Communications Policy
• MIT's colloquium on information technology and the city
• MIT's List of Related Courses
• MIT's Digital Communities
• The Political Economy of Digital Infrastructure MIT - Mitch Kapor (Spring 1995)
• Ethics and Law on the Electronic FrontierMIT - Hal Abelson, Mike Fischer (Fall 1994, Fall 1995)
• Computers, Ethics, and SocietyUniv. of Pennsylvania - David Farber (Spring 1994)
• Information Technology LawUniv. of New South Wales Faculty of Law - Graham Greenleaf (Session 2, 1995)
• Information Law and Policy Syracuse Univ. - Margaret Chon (Fall 1995). Here's Prof. Chon's reading list
• U.N.C.'s Cyberpublishing and Cybercasting - JOMC 191.8
• UCLA's Cyberspace Law and Policy
• Jessica Litman's Law In Cyberspace Seminar at Wayne State
• It's not in English, but tryAfdeling Recht en Informatica Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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