Law 897-- Seminar: The Law in Cyberspace -- Syllabus

August 24, 2008

Seminar: The Law in Cyberspace

There will be no class on Thursday, October 9. We will make up the class Friday, November 14, from 1:30 to 3:30 pm in room 424 HH

Assignment for Thursday, September 4:

The seminar files are on the web at http://www.umich.edu/~jdlitman/classes/cyber.htm. Before the first class, explore what's posted there.

Spend at least ninety minutes exploring the links at URL: http://www.umich.edu/~jdlitman/classes/cyber/sources.html. Look at anything that seems interesting, and don't worry about being able to find your way back. Print out the first page of the most interesting thing you see.

Tuesday, September 9:

Topic selections due by noon. Copies of the signup sheet are here (html) and here (pdf).

Thursday, September 11:

Read the Introduction and Chapters 1-5 (pages 1-126) of Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of The Internet and How to Stop It (2008).

Thursday, September 18:

Visti the Peacefire home page. Spend a little time exploring what you find there.

Using one of the search engines on the Sources page, find something on the Internet that you believe that children under the age of 12 should be prevented from seeing. Go back to the search engine and find something else that you believe should not be available to the general public on the Internet at all. There's no reason to limit yourself in either search to pornography unless you'd prefer to. You might instead want to look for noxious hate speech, dangerous or deceptive medical advice, instructions for building weapons of mass destruction or engaging in other illegal activity, instances of consumer fraud, invasions of personal privacy, or examples of massive copyright infringement. Be prepared to discuss your selections in class.

Thursday, Sept. 25 through Thursday. Dec. 4

Friday, December 5: