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Note: Links marked [access restricted] are limited to on-campus viewing at the University of East Anglia or another institution with a subscription to the relevant resource. Further information on the resources utilized here can be obtained by writing Mr. Heverly at robert.heverly@uea.ac.uk.
Class One | Introduction to the Course
Friday, 14 January 2005
0900-1100 Sci. 3.02
Resources
Class Two | What is the Information Society
Friday, 21 January 2005
0900-1100 Sci. 3.02
Required Reading
Class Three | Theory and Law I: Terminology, Concepts, Structure
Friday, 28 January 2005
0900-1100 Sci. 3.02
Required Reading
- 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)
Note: These readings are available from Mr. Heverly in Earlham Hall Room 214; please E-mail me if you have questions regarding these materials.
Note: Class Four will take place in week five (watch days and times regading class meetings throughout the scheduled term); we do not meet in week four.
Class Four | Law and Theory II:
Thinking About Legal Theory
Friday, 11 February 2005
0900-1100 Sci. 3.02
- Kim Lane Shepple, Legal Theory and Social Theory, 20 Annual Review of Sociology 383 (1994), pages 383-399 [access restricted]
- Torben Spaak, Legal Positivism, Law's Normativity, and the Normative Force of Law, 16 Ratio Juris 469 (2003) [access restricted]
- Pablo E. Navarro and Jose Juan Moreso, The Dynamics of Legal Positivism, 10 Ratio Juris 288 (1997) [access restricted]
- Aleksander Peczenik, A Theory of Legal Doctrine, 14 Ratio Juris 75 (2001), pages 75-85 [access restricted]
- Jare Oladosu, Choosing a Legal Theory on Cultural Grounds: An African Case for Legal Positivism, 2 West Africa Rev. 1 (2001) pages 1-22 [pdf]
- Jack M. Balkin, Deconstruction (1996-1997) [pdf]
Class Five | What Does the Information Society Change?
Friday, 18 February 2005
0900-1100 Sci. 3.02
- Jack M. Balkin, Digital Speech and Democratic Culture: A Theory of Freedom of Speech for the Information Society, 79 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1 (2004), pages 1-15 [pdf]
- Isabel Álvarez and Brent Kilbourn, Mapping the Information Society Literature: Topics, Perspectives, and Root Metaphors, First Monday, volume 7, number 1 (January 2002) [pdf]
- Manuel Castells, Materials for an Explanatory Theory of the Network Society, 51 British Journal of Sociology 5 (2000) [restricted access]
- Dietrich Brandt and Klaus Kenning, Information and Communication Technologies: Perspectives and their Impact on Society, 16 AI and Society 210 (2002) [restricted access]
Note: Classes six through eight will take place on Tuesdays from 1200-1400 in Arts 2.78.
Class Six | How Can We Examine the Information Society? Examples from Scholarship
Tuesday, 22 February 2005
1200-1400 Arts 2.78
- Michael Froomkin, Habermas@Discourse.net: Toward a Critical Theory of Cyberspace, 116 Harvard Law Review 751 (2003), pages 757-777, 796-807 [pdf]
- James Boyle, Focault in Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and Hard-Wired Censors (1997) (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 [pdf]
- Karim H. Karim, Cyber-Utopia and the Myth of Paradise: Using Jacques Ellul's Work on Propaganda to Analyse Information Society Rhetoric, 4 Information, Communication and Society 113 (2001) [restricted access]
Class Seven | Searching for Change: Information, Economics, Markets, and Globalisation
Tuesday, 1 March 2005
1200-1400 Arts 2.78
Class Eight | Searching for Change: Privacy and Autonomy
Tuesday, 8 March 2005
1200-1400 Arts 2.78
- 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]
- Yochai Benkler, Siren Songs and Amish Children: Autonomy, Information, and Law, 76 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 23 (2001), pages 31-57 [pdf]
Note: From class nine to the end of term we return to our original day, time and room schedule.
Class Nine | Our Ideas, Our Concerns, Our Issues: Part I - Jurisdiction in the Information Age
Friday, 11 March 2005
0900-1100 Sci. 3.02
- Dr. David Humphreys, "Just Where is Cyberspace?" Radio Shorts, Radio Features [Real Audio File; transcript is available here]
- David R. Johnson and David G. Post, "Law and Borders--The Rise of Law in Cyberspace," 48 Stanford L. Rev. 1367 (1996) [Parts I and II.A. - to approximately page 12]
- Mark I. Wilson, Kenneth E. Corey, Charles Mickens, and Helen Pratt Mickens, Death of Distance/Rise of Place: The Impact of the Internet on Locality and Spacial Organization, 11th Annual Internet Society Conference (2001)
- Michael J. Whincop, Three Positive Theories of Jurisdiction, Melbourne Univ. L. Rev., Vol. 24 (2000) read pages 1-22 [link to pdf]
- Richardson v. Schwarzenegger, [2004] EWHC 2422 (QB) [pdf] (read all, but pay particular attention to the jurisdiction portion of the judgment) [pdf]
- Lewis v. King, [2004] EWCA Civ1329 [pdf] (read all, but pay particular attention to the jurisdiction portion of the judgment) [pdf]
- H.B. Jacobini, "Problems of High Altitude or Space Jurisdiction," 6 Western Pol. Q. 680 (1953) [restricted access]
Class Ten | Our Ideas, Our Concerns, Our Issues: Part II - SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM
Friday, 18 March 2005
0900-1100 Sci. 3.02
- Paul Dougan, Legal and technical Responses to Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (2001) [pdf]
- Khong W K , 'Spam Law for the Internet', Refereed article, 2001 (3) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT) [Word version - rtf format - available here]
- David A. Turner and Daniel M. Havey, Controlling Spam Through Lightweight Currency (November 4, 2003) [pdf]
- Dan L. Burk, The Trouble with Trespass, 3 J. Small & Emerg. Bus. L. 1 (1998) (read pages 16-33) [link to pdf]
- Dennis W.K. Khong, An Econmic Analysis of Spam Law, 1 Erasmus Law and Economic Review 23 (2004) [pdf]
- David E. Sorkin, Technical and Legal Approaches to Unsolicited Electronic Mail, 35 U.S.F.L. Rev. 325 (2001) [pdf] (skim through this article, do not try to read it through unless you have sufficient time)
Class Eleven | Tying It All Together: Does Theory Matter?
Friday, 22 April 2005
0900-1100 Sci. 3.02
Required Reading
- Stanley Fish, Consequences, in AGAINST THEORY: LITERARY STUDIES AND THE NEW PRAGMATISM (W.J.T. Mitchell ed., 1985)
- Stanley Fish, Martinez and the Uses of Theory, in DOING WHAT COMES NATURALLY: CHANGE, RHETORIC, AND THE PRACTICE OF THEORY IN LITERARY AND LEGAL STUDIES (1989)
- Michael Robertson, "What am I doing?" Stanley Fish on the Possibility of Legal Theory, 8 Legal Theory 359 (2002)
Note: These readings are available from Mr. Heverly in Earlham Hall Room 214; please E-mail me if you have questions regarding these materials.
Optional Reading
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