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Meeting Time:
Mondays
13:00-15:00
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19 January 2004 | The Information
Society
Topics:
- Technology, Law and Change
- Economics as a Framework for
Decision-Making
- Legal Theory, Legal Theories, Legal
Theorists
Readings:
- Larry Solum, Legal
Theory Lexicon, at the "Legal
Theory Blog": read as many of the entries as you can from the table
of contents on the right (Prof. Solum continues to update them), but for the
first meeting read at least: 001,
002,
006,
007,
008,
009,
010,
011,
and 016.
[html]
26 January 2004 | Theory
and the Information Society
Topics
- The Information Society
- Thinking About Theory
- The Internet
- ICTs
Readings (Required)
Readings (Additional)
2 February 2004 | Law and
Theory in the Information Society
Topics
- Metaphor and Analogy
- Culture and Change
- Law and Change
- Theory and Change
Readings
- David R. Koespell, "The Ontology of
Cyberspace," pages 19-42 (Chicago: Open Court, 2000).
- Donald Schon, "Displacement of
Concepts," pages 35-51 (London: Tavestock Publications, 1963).
- Jack Balkin, "Cultural Software,"
pages 242-258 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
Readings (additional)
- Joseph Vining, "Generalization in
Interpretive Theory," in Robert Post, "Law
and the Order of Culture," Berkeley: California University Press,
1991.
- David R. Koepseel, "The Ontology of
Cyberspace," pages 43-75 (Chicago: Open Court, 2000).
Reading Assignments
Click Here
9 February 2004 | Reaching
Out to Others: Jurisdiction and Privacy
in the Information Society
Topics
- Where the Information Society is:
Jurisdiction and Law
- Norms, Values and Law
- The Challenge of Reach
- Defining Privacy
- The Nature of the New Privacy
- Threats to the New Privacy
- Ensuring Privacy, or Giving Up the Ghost?
Readings
- Francois Ewald, Norms, Discipline, and the
Law, in Robert Post, "Law
and the Order of Culture," Berkeley: California University Press,
1991.
- H.B. Jacobini, "Problems
of High Altitude or Space Jurisdiction," 6 Western Pol. Q. 680
(1953) [available from JSTOR, Athens password required]
- Dr. David Humphreys, "Just Where is
Cyberspace?" Radio Shorts, Radio Features [Real Audio File; transcript
is available here]
- Marco De Boni and Martyn Prigmore, "Cultural
Aspects of Internet Privacy", Proceedings of the UKAIS 2002
Conference, Leeds, 2002
- Michael Froomkin, "The
Death of Privacy," 52 Stanford L. Rev. 1461 (2000) [read 1461-1501]
- EPIC, Practical
Privacy Tools [look over this list and consider what "types"
of privacy these "tools" are designed to act]
Readings [additional]
Reading Assignments
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16 February 2004 | Information
Economics, Markets, and Globalisation
Note: We will start this session by spending
some time "theorizing privacy" as a conclusion to our discussion from
this past Monday.
Topics
- Open Source and Distributed Production
- Information and Information Technology as Economic Goods
- Institutional Responses
- Globalisation and Development
- General Public Licenses
Readings
Readings [additional]
Reading Assignments
Click Here
NOTE
ROOM, TIME AND DATE CHANGE FOR THIS MEETING
24 February 2004 | Media,
Information and Mass Communication
ROOM CHANGE: Arts 2.14
TIME CHANGE: 10:00am-12:00noon
This Meeting is in place of the
regularly scheduled 23 February Meeting
NOTE
ROOM, TIME AND DATE CHANGE FOR THIS MEETING
Topics
- Blogging and Mainstream Media
- Information Control
- Media Concentration
- Free Information, Expensive Information
Reading
- DTI, The Draft Communications Bill - The
Policy, Section
9: Media Ownership (2003)
- Robert McChesney, The
Political Economy of International Communications: Foundations for the
Emerging Global Debate over Media Ownership and Regulation, UNRISD (2002)
[check right side of page for more viewing options, or to have the pdf sent
to you via E-mail]
- Victor Fleisher and Jeffrey Kahn, A
Taxing Blog: The Uneasy Case for Blogging Taxation, Columbia Law &
Economics Working Paper No. 223 (2003)
- The
Trees Fight Back: Should Old Media Embrace Blogging?, The Economist
(print edition), 4 July 2002
- Arun Sundararajan, Nonlinear
Pricing of Information Goods [pdf] (2003), pages 1-4
- Find and read some blogs (a starting point is Instapundit;
follow additional links from there)
Reading [additional]
- Yochai Benkler, Siren
Songs and Amish Children: Autonomy, Information and Law, [pdf] 76 NUY L.
Rev. 23 (2001)
- Michael Rosenthal, Open Access from the EU
Perspective, [pdf] IJCLP Vol. 7 (2003)
- Tim Beasley, Handcuffs
for the Grabbing Hand: Media Capture and Political Accountability (2002)
- Robert McChesney, Global
Media, Neoliberalism, and Imperialism, 52 Monthly Review No. 10 (March
2001)
- Blog of the "Revenge of the Blogs"
Conference, 2001, especially the panel on "Blogs
and Journalism"
Reading Assignments
All students should read all of the assigned pieces, paying particular attention
to the McChesney piece (the others are all quite short and can be reviewed in a
short period of time)
1 March 2004 | Government
in the Information Age: Everything That Changes Stays the Same
Topics
- E-democracy
- Efficient Government
- Value for Money in Public Administration
- Deliberative Democracy
- Public Information
Readings
Recommended Reading
Assignments
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8 March 2004 | Class and
Control in the Information Society: The Commons, Virtual Crime, and Virtual Worlds
Topics
- Anti-circumvention Laws
- Stealing the Commons
- Networks and Network Effects
- Designing Freedom In, Designing Freedom Out
- Hardware, Software, and Control
- Autonomy, Freedom and Control
Readings [note: some of these resources may
only be available while you are on campus; if you have difficulty accessing
them, please notify me via E-mail]
Readings [additional]
- Clay Shirky, Power
Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
- Larry Lessig, Code and Other Laws of
Cyberspace (1999)
- Larry Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of
the Commons in a Connected World (2001)
- Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point (2000)
Assignments
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15 March 2004 | Old
Concepts in the New Society: Sovereignty, Property and Human Rights in the Information
Society
Topics
- Sovereignty
- Human Rights
- Property
- Conceptual Change
Readings
- Thomas G. Weiss and Don Hubert, "The
Responsibility to Protect," IDRC 2001, Part I.1: Sovereignty
- The
Internet and Human Rights: An Overview
- Peter R. Baehr, Controversies
in the Current International Human Rights Debate, [pdf] Human Rights
Working Papers No. 20 (2000) [pages 1-10]
- Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries
on the Laws of England (1765-1769), Book the Second, Chapter 1: Of
Property, In General
- Jeremy Bentham, Principles of the Civil Code,
Part I, Objects of the Civil Law, Chapter
8: Of Property, Chapter
9: Answer to Objection, Chapter
10: Analysis of the Evils Resulting From Attacks Upon Property
Readings [additional]
Assignments
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22 March 2004 | Theory in
the Information Society I: Focault, Hegel and Habermas
Topics
- Theoretical Structures for Considering the
Information Society
Readings
- Michael Froomkin, Habermas@Discourse.net:
Toward a Critical Theory of Cyberspace, [pdf] 116 Harvard Law Review 751
(2003), pages 757-777, 796-807.
- James Boyle, Focault
in Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and Hard-Wired Censors (1997),
pages 1-11 (all).
- Marco DeBoni and Martyn Prigmore, A
Hegelian Basis For Information Privacy As An Economic Right, Proceedings
of the UKAIS conference, Portsmouth, 2001, pages 1-8 (all).
Assignments
Click here
NOTE
ROOM, TIME AND DATE CHANGE FOR THIS MEETING
| 30 March 2004 | 1400-1600 | Apple Loft |
Theory in
the Information Society II: Rawls and Raz Online
This is a Tuesday meeting in place of our regularly scheduled (and last) Monday
meeting
NOTE
ROOM, TIME AND DATE CHANGE FOR THIS MEETING
Topics
- The Theory of Justice in Cyberspace
- The Authority of Law in Cyberspace
Readings
Assignments
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