Law and the Information Society
UEA Law School
Spring 2004
Mr. Heverly
 

Meeting Time:
Mondays
13:00-15:00

The following students are responsible for being able to present the core ideas, the theoretical structure, and the normative framework of the following pieces (assigned as required readings above; note that all students are expected to read all the assigned readings, but that they are specifically responsible for being able to intelligently and deeply discuss the reading assigned to them:

2 February 2004 | Law and Theory in the Information Society

Koespell, "The Ontology of Cyberspace"

• Coquat
• Krueger
• Scarf

Schon, "Displacement of Concepts"

• Fears
• Nikolopolous
• Arong
• Lawton

Balkin, "Cultural Software"

• Grewal
• Lohn
• Von Scheidt
• Barner

9 February 2004 | Reaching Out to Others: Jurisdiction and Privacy in the Information Society

Ewald, "Norms, Discipline"

• Barner
• Lohn
• Lawton

Jacobini, "Problems"

• Fears

De Boni, "Cultural Aspects"

• Coquat
• Grewal
• Nikolopolous

Froomkin

• Arong
• Scarf
• Krueger

Humphreys, EPIC

• All

16 February 2004 | Information Economics, Markets, and Globalisation

Benkler, 1-13; GNU General Public Licenses; Creative Commons

• All

Benkler, 13-30

• Coquat
• Scarf

Benkler, 51-70

• Grewal
• Krueger

CIPR Report

• Nikolopolous
• Barner

Rosamond

• Fears
• Arong

 

24 February 2004 | Media, Information and Mass Communication

Read All

1 March 2004 | Government in the Information Age: Everything That Changes Stays the Same

Noveck, Designing Deliberative Democracy, Parts I & IV

• Barner
• Lohn

Noveck, Designing Deliberative Democracy, Part V

• Arong
• Nikolopolous

E-Democracy in Practice

• Fears

Coleman, Bowling Together, pages 1-23

• Coquat
• Grewal

Coleman, Bowling Together, pages 24-45

• Von Scheidt

Brown, Social Life of Information

• Scarf
• Krueger

8 March 2004 | Class and Control in the Information Society: The Commons, Virtual Crime, and Virtual Worlds

Samuelson, Liebowitz & Margolis, Paterson, Bollier, and McClelland

• Coquat
• Grewal
• Lohn
• Scarf
• Barner

Denton, pages 1-30

• Nikolopoulos
• Von Schiedt
• Krueger
• Fears
• Arong

15 March 2004 | Old Concepts in the New Society: Sovereignty, Property and Human Rights in the Information Society

Note: Please note that each group of students is assigned two readings for this week, plus the overview.

Internet and Human Rights: An Overview

• All

Weiss & Hubert, Sovereignty

• Barner
• Nikolopolous
• Arong
• Lohn
• Coquat

Baehr, pages 1-10

• Fears
• Grewal
• Scarf
• Von Schiedt
• Krueger

Blackstone

• Fears
• Grewal
• Scarf
• Von Schiedt
• Krueger

Bentham

• Barner
• Nikolopolous
• Arong
• Lohn
• Coquat

22 March 2004 | Theory in the Information Society I: Focault, Hegel and Habermas

All students should read the entirety of the assignment (you should be able to avoid reading all of the footnotes/endnotes, as the point is to get the general themes and framework of the article and its content):

Boyle: Pages 1-11 (all)
De Boni: Sections 1-8 (all)
Froomkin: Pages 757-777; 796-807

Tentatively Rescheduled to 30 March 2004 | Theory in the Information Society II: Rawls and Raz Online

Raz: Pages 163-179; 210-229

• Barner
• Arong
• Lohn
• Von Schiedt
• Krueger

Rawls: Pages 3-19; 47-73

• Scarf
• Coquat
• Fears
• Grewal
• Nikolopolous