Fall 2004
Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier
HLS: Digital Democracy 2004
Class meetings:
- Tuesday classes will meet at Harvard Law School from 4:30-6:30, in Hauser 105 (click here for map).
- Thursday classes will meet at MIT from 2:00-3:30 in room 4-265.
Course Calendar
| Weekly Preparation | Tuesday at Harvard (3-5) | Thursday at MIT (2-3:30) |
| To do | Sep. 7: Registration Day no class | Sep. 9: The legal system, briefing cases, term projects |
| To do | Sep. 14: Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll | Sep. 16: Government restrictions on cryptography as a case study in technology and policy |
| To do | Sep. 21: The Internet and Personal Empowerment | Sep. 23: The Fourth Amendment and wiretapping |
| Sep. 23: Special Thursday evening optional video (with dinner): Moot court hearing on the Constitutionality of government mandated escrow of encryption keys | ||
| To do | Sep. 28: Critiquing Open Access – censorship, filtering, cultural imperialism | Sep. 30: Privacy law, fair information practices |
| To do | Oct. 5: A pause for skepticism: Whose net is it? | Oct. 7: Background in intellectual property law Slides from today’s lecture |
| To do | Oct. 12: Enabling Online Entrepreneurship | Oct. 14: Class exercise: Moot court on privacy law |
| To do | Oct. 19: From Theory into Practice: a Negotiation on Voice over IP | Oct. 21: Team presentation: CAPPS II |
| To do | Oct. 26: Team presentation: MBTA Smart Card Today’s class will be held at MIT in room 32-D463 (in the Stata Center) | Oct. 28: Team presentation: National ID card |
| To do | Nov. 2: Online Politics | Nov. 4: Team presentation: MIT ID Card |
| Nov. 5: milestone for final paper due: Statement of thesis | ||
| To do | Nov. 9: Mass Media and the right(?) to be heard | Nov. 11: Veterans Day (no class) |
| Nov. 12: milestone for final paper due: Restatement of thesis / Main arguments / Resources | ||
| To do | Nov. 16: Exporting our information technology laws | Nov. 18: Team presentation: Sensors in public spaces |
| Nov. 19: milestone for final paper due: Detailed paper outline and main arguments | ||
| To do | Nov. 23: Indigenous knowledge | Nov. 25: Thanksgiving (no class) |
| To do | Nov. 30: Digital property | Dec. 2: Larry Lessig on “Free Culture” Class meets in 32-D463 |
| Dec. 2: milestone for final paper due: Half the paper completely drafted | ||
| There is no class on Dec. 7 or Dec. 9. Instead, there will be an (optional) visit to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals on the afternoon of Dec. 8, and a joint MIT-Harvard party the evening of Dec. 8.Look here for details. | ||
| Dec. 10: final paper due: no extensions |
Student Papers
| Priya Agrawal, Neha Bhargava, Chaitra Chandrasekhar, Al Dahya, J.D. Zamfirescu | The MIT ID Card System: Analysis and Recommendations |
| Ian Brlinsky, Brian Myhre, Jennifer Novosad, Chris Suarez | Privacy, SmartCards, and the MBTA: A Policy Analysis of the MBTA’s New Automated Fare Collection System |
| Shuvo Chatterjee, Mabel, Feng, Brian Keegan, Sarah Ma, Jennifer Weng | Sensors in Public Spaces: The Law and Technology of Anonymity |