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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
- 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
- Please join us for a celebratory first-day-of-class reception, directly after class.
- Privacy and Technological Points of Control
Guests
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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
WEEK TWO: Analysis through the Four Quadrants
- Government Regulation/Corporate Monopolies (Quadrant One)
- Review of groups' work thus far
- Discussion and lecture of Professor Zittrain's "The Four Quadrants."
Guest
- Andrew McLaughlin http://twitter.com/mcandrew
Required Readings For Class:
- Read sections of Wu and Goldsmith's Who Controls the Internet
Recommended Readings:
- Review Zittrain's The Four Quadrants
- (Corporate) Self-Regulation (Quadrant Two)
Guests
- Andrew McLaughlin http://twitter.com/mcandrew
- Charlie Cheever of Quora
- Steven Lurie and Jay Monahan of Zynga
Required Reading for Class
- Read Grimmelmann and Ohm's Dr. Generative
Field Trip!
- to Mozilla!
- Cyberanarchy! (Quadrant Three)
Guests
Required Reading for Class
- Watch Coleman's Old and New Net Wars Over Free Speech and Secrecy or How to Understand the Lulz Battle Against the Church of Scientology (about an hour of video altogether)
Field Trip!
- Reception at August Capital with David Hornik
- Communitarian (Quadrant Four)
Field Trip!
Winter class: Please disregard the below links for now.