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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:

Recommended Readings:

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

Required Readings for Class:


Wednesday, January 5th: 5pm to 7pm
Cybersecurity and Diplomatic Transparency

Guests

Required Readings for Class


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

Guests

Required Readings for Class

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

Required Readings for Class

Recommended for Class


WEEK TWO: Analysis through the Four Quadrants

Monday, January 10th: 6pm to 8pm
Government Regulation/Corporate Monopolies (Quadrant One)
Review of groups' work thus far
Discussion and lecture of Professor Zittrain's "The Four Quadrants."

Required Readings For Class:

  • Read sections of Wu and Goldsmith's Who Controls the Internet

Recommended Readings:


Tuesday, January 11th: 11:30am to 1:30pm
(Corporate) Self-Regulation (Quadrant Two)

Guests

Required Reading for Class

Field Trip!



Wednesday, January 12th: 5pm to 7pm
Cyberanarchy! (Quadrant Three)

Guests

Required Reading for Class

Field Trip!


Thursday, January 13th: 11:30am to 1:30pm
Communitarian (Quadrant Four)

Required Reading for Class

Field Trip!


Pharos

Winter class: Please disregard the below links for now.

Class Schedule

Class Notes

Topic Sign-up!

CrowdConf Brainstorm page

New Difficult Topics