Fall 1998
Class meetings: Tuesdays 2-5, alternate weeks at Harvard Law School in Pound 107 (click here for map) and at MIT in room 35-225 (click here for map)
Each paper is an extensive study produced by a joint group of Harvard Law School and MIT students. Summaries of the study were presented at an end-of-term conference on December 6, 1998 at Harvard Law School.
Caution: Most of the HTML versions of the papers below are missing the footnotes, compliments of Microsoft’s Word->HTML conversion routine.
Course Calendar
| Date | Location | Topic |
| Sept. 8 | Harvard and MIT | Class orientations, meeting separately at Harvard and MIT |
| Sept. 15 | Harvard | Cryptography (Introductory presentation by Abelson and Lessig) |
| Sept. 22 | MIT | Topic 1: Digital identity |
| Sept. 29 | Harvard | Topic 2: Content control |
| Oct. 6 | MIT | Topic 3: Privacy |
| No class this week. | ||
| Oct 20 | First short paper due for MIT students by October 20. Look here for details. | |
| Oct. 20 | Harvard | Topic 4: Digital rights architectures for IP protection |
| October 27 | Outlines for the team papers are due by October 27. Look here for details. | |
| Oct. 27 | MIT | Topic 5: Spread spectrum architectures Topic 6: Trespass and “property” in cyberspace |
| Nov. 3 | No class this week. | |
| Nov. 10 | Harvard | Topic 8: Libel |
| Nov. 17 | MIT | Topic 7: Universal access and the architecture of access |
| Nov. 24 | Harvard | Topic 9: Sovereignty |
| Dec. 1 | MIT | Topic 10: Democratic structures |
| Dec. 1 | Executive summaries and MIT second writing assignment due. | |
| Sunday, Dec. 6 | Conference at Ames Moot Court Room, Harvard Law School, 10-5 | |
| Dec. 10 | White papers due |
Student Papers
| Paul Covell, Steve Gordon, Alex Hochberger, James Kovacs, Raffi Krikorian, Melanie Schneck | Digital Identity in Cyberspace HTML version, MS Word version |
| Christian Baekkelund, David Kelman, Ann Lipton, Alexander Macgillivray, Piotr Mitros, Teresa Ou | A Framework for Privacy Protection HTML version, MS Word version |
| Stuart Buck, Dedric Carter, Donna Dutcher, Andrew Garcia, Devendra Kumar, David Pearah, Andres Rodriguez | Spread Spectrum: Regulation in Light of Changing Technologies HTML version, MS Word version |
| Benjamin Adida, Enoch Chang, Lauren B. Fletcher, Michelle Hong, Lydia Sandon, Kristina Page | The Future of Trespass and Property in Cyberspace HTML version |
| Jason Chicola, Dawn Farber, Mami Karatsu, Joseph Liu, Karl Richter, John Tilly | Digital Rights Architectures for Intellectual Property Protection HTML version, MS Word version |
| Matamba Austin, Peggy Chen, Jeff Doering, Hazel-Ann Mayers, Lars Oleson, Serrin Turner, Nadia Vinson | Universal Access and Universal Service: Lowering the Barriers to Entry into Cyberspace HTML version, MS Word version |
| Jennifer Chung, Jason Linder, Ian Liu, Wendy Seltzer, May Tse | Democratic Structures in Cyberspace HTML version, MS Word version |
| Bryan Adams, Christopher Beland, Brian Crist, Mark Lee, Sharie Mendrey, Betsy Rosenblatt | Sovereignty on the Internet: Ways to Prevent Cyberanarchy HTML version, MS Word version |