Fall 2007
Class meetings: Thursdays, 2-5 in room 4-231
Course Calendar
| Class | Topic | Assignment for the following week |
| Unit A: Regulating the decentralized Internet | ||
| Sept. 6 | First class: Course overview and introduction; policy making and the structure of law; Reno v. ACLU | Reading about personal information, case briefing practice. See assignment here |
| Sept. 13 | Personal information on the web. | Readings in international issues; generating a FOAF file. See assignment here |
| Sept. 20 | (1) Accountability architectures for the Web (2) International issues | Read seminal Fourth Amendment cases.See assignment here |
| Unit B: Government surveillance and data mining | ||
| Sept. 27 | Fourth Amendment foundations | Prepare for Oct. 4 moot court. See assignment here |
| Oct. 4 | Moot court on transactional records | Readings for Oct. 11 on the PATRIOT Act; term paper proposal due See assignment here |
| Oct. 11 | Data mining, PATRIOT Act | For Oct. 18: continue paper preparation; TRAC readings See assignment here |
| Oct. 18 | Guest: David Burnham | For Oct. 25: Prepare for mock Congressional hearing See assignment here |
| Oct. 25 | Congressional hearing on datamining | For Nov. 1: Student paper review, readings on copyright, ligthning talks for half the class. See assignment here |
| Start of crunch time for term papers. See schedule of milestones here | ||
| Unit C: Copyright | ||
| Nov. 1 | Basics of copyright law Lightning talks, group 1 | For Nov. 8: Term paper thesis and summary See assignment here |
| Nov. 8 | Copyright: DMCA, Sony, Napster, Grokster Lightning talks, group 2 | For Nov. 15: Work on paper (deadline, Nov. 18). See assignment here |
| Unit D: Regulatory frameworks | ||
| Nov. 15 | Foundations of broadcast regulation | No assignment |
| Nov. 22 | Thanksgiving vacation | For Nov. 29: Readings in medical record privacy See assignment here |
| Medical record privacy | For Dec. 5: Wrapping up See assignment here | |
| Wrapping up | ||
| Final papers are due before December 12. |
Student Papers
| Alexander Valys | Privacy at Speed |
| Karena Tyan | Dear Diary (Hello World!): Developing Corporate Blog Policies |
| Shirley Fung, Clarence Lee | Online Social Networks and E-Commerce |
| Roberto Carli | The Sword, the Thief and the EULA: A virtual property crisis in online videogames |