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Welcome to Difficult Problems in Cyberlaw, a January course taught by Professor Jonathan Zittrain, co-hosted by Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School.

If you are a student, please see Course Logistics. All regular class meetings will be at Stanford Law School Classroom 272.

This map site has a map of the Bay Area, Stanford campus, and visitor parking at Stanford.

WEEK ONE: Theory and Problems

Monday, January 3th: 5pm to 7pm

Professor Zittrain will give a lecture on the technological workings of the Internet.

There will be time made for brief student introductions.

Required Readings For Class:

Read Brief Angry Statements of Confusion: How the Internet is Covered
Read Chapter 2 of The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It

Recommended Readings:

Salzter, et al End-to-End Arguments in System Design

After Class Reception! 7pm to 8:30pm

Please join us for a celebratory first-day-of-class reception, directly after class.

Tuesday, January 4th: 11:30am to 1:30pm

Privacy and Technological Points of Control

Guests

Fred von Lohman EFF
Dean Hachamovitch Microsoft

Required Readings for Class:

Read Zittrain's Internet Points of Control
Read “Supreme Court rules against file swapping” (June 2005)
Read “Microsoft unveils 'do not track' option for IE9” (December 7 2010)

Wednesday, January 5th: 5pm to 7pm

Cybersecurity and Diplomatic Transparency

Guests

Ben Scott State Department

Required Readings for Class

Read Clark and Landau's Untangling Attribution (sections in italics are recommended, not required)
Read Zuckerman's Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites (pp 48 through 58 required; pp 8-25 recommended for technical background)
Read Zittrain and Sauter's Wikileaks FAQ
Read Clinton's Internet Freedom (January 21, 2010)
Read The New York Times's Defense Department's Response to Iraq War Logs (October 22, 2010)
Read The Wall Street Journal Air Force Blocks Media Sites (December 14, 2010)
Read Roy Revie's Wikileaks and 21st Century Statecraft

Thursday, January 6th: 11:30am to 1:30pm

Privacy and Reputation

Guests

Peter Kazanjy Honestly.com

Required Readings for Class

Read Chapter 9 of Zittrain's The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It (pp 200-221, 225-231 required)
Read Chapter 8 of Solove's The Future of Reputation
Read Craig Newmark's Trust and reputation systems: redistributing power and influence
Read Evlyn Rusli Unvarnished Becomes Honestly.com, Raises $1.2 Million And Opens The Floodgates (October 19, 2010)

Recommended for Class

Attendance at Zittrain's Minds for Sale lecture is highly recommended. (4:30pm to 6:00pm, Wallenberg Theater)

Friday, January 7th: 9:30am to 11:30am

Crowdsourcing and The Four Quadrants

Guests

SpamGirl, admin of Turker Nation forums
Lukas Biewald, Crowdflower

Required Readings for Class

Explore Turker Nation forums.
Explore Panos Ipeirotis's research blog
Read Cloudwork Best Practices
Read Zittrain's The Four Quadrants

Recommended for Class

Though class will run into this event, if you can make it after class, it should be really interesting: National Strategies for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (11 AM - 12 PM)