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Eavesblogging the Internet Law Program
By Slashdot
July 10, 2002

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Internet Law Notes
By Donna Wentworth
July, 2002

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Internet Law Notes
By Dan Gillmor
July, 2002

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Inside ILAW 2001:
One Observer's Class Notes
By Cedar Pruitt
July, 2001

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Looking at Cyberlaw
Alex Wellen sits down with five law professors from Harvard, Stanford, and NYU who are currently shaping the future of law and the Internet.
By CyberCrime staff
July 10, 2001

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Untangling the Legal Web
By Tech Live staff
July 2, 2001

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For Immediate Release

April 23, 2002

For additional information please contact:
Robyn Mintz
rmintz@cyber.law.harvard.edu <mailto:rmintz@cyber.law.harvard.edu>
617.496-2542

Berkman Center for Internet & Society Presents Internet Law Program at Harvard Law School

Leading Legal Scholars Offer Intensive Course on
Cutting-edge Cyberlaw Issues

CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA - April 23, 2002 - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School has opened registration for its third Internet Law Program, which brings together top legal experts and participants from over 40 countries to explore today's most pressing Internet issues.

The Internet Law Program begins with online instruction June 3-26, followed by an intensive residential program at Harvard Law School July 1-5, and concludes with online moderated discussion forums for the remainder of July. The Program is offered twice per year - a summer session in Cambridge and a winter session abroad.

"The rules governing what happens on the Internet are changing," said Harvard Law School professor William Fisher III, faculty director of the Berkman Center and chair of the Internet Law Program. "Attitudes and laws concerning online privacy and security shifted in the aftermath of September 11. The crisis in the music industry signaled by the emergence of peer-to-peer copying systems has intensified, and the range of possible solutions has grown. Various doctrines pertaining to e-commerce have been modified. Our goals are to inform participants concerning the state of the law in these fields and to stimulate debate about where the law should be going."

Joining Fisher to teach the program are New York University law professor Yochai Benkler; Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, author of the highly acclaimed new book, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World; Harvard Law School professor and Berkman Center faculty co-director Charles Nesson; and Harvard Law School assistant professor and Berkman Center faculty co-director Jonathan Zittrain. Additional guest lecturers will be announced in the following weeks.

The Internet Law Program is intended for a broad audience, including leaders in business, law, government, and the non-profit sector. No previous experience with Internet law is necessary. Past participants have included entrepreneurs, artists, writers, and journalists who cover information technology.

"Privacy, property, speech, commerce -- the Internet remains at a critical point of inflection, and the outcomes of subtle but important technical and strategic battles will determine the digital future of each of these substantive areas," said Zittrain. "The Internet Law Program brings together people who rarely talk to each other -- but whose collective activities bear on the future of the Net."

To ensure in-depth discussion and to preserve a low participant-to-faculty ratio, enrollment is limited. Registration is now open and available online at <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw>. The program is not a part of the Harvard Law School curriculum; therefore, please direct all inquiries to <ilaw@cyber.law.harvard.edu>, not to the Harvard Law School registrar's office. American lawyers in some states may be eligible for 30 hours of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit.

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is a research program founded in 1997 to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Today, the Berkman Center serves as the focal point for an international network of teaching and research faculty, students, cyberlaw practitioners, entrepreneurs and technologists engaged in innovative research projects designed to push the boundaries of current thought on law and the Internet. <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu>