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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
Required Readings for Class
- Read Clark and Landau's Untangling Attribution
- 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
- 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
- Read Chapter 7 of Solove's The Future of Reputation
- Read Craig Newmark's Trust and reputation systems: redistributing power and influence
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, founder of Turker Nation forums
- Lukas Biewald, Crowdflower
Required Readings for Class
- Explore Turker Nation forums.
- 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)
Winter class: Please disregard the below links for now.