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Program Overview

After a five year hiatus, the world-renowned iLaw Program is returning to the Harvard Law School. The Berkman Center’s Internet Law Program (iLaw) was initially launched in 2000 to offer the public a way to learn about national and international legal, economic, and public interest debates surrounding the Internet from leading experts in the field.

The 2011 iLaw Program will engage new topics and revisit older topics within the technology, law and policy, and social science fields over a four-day conference, over September 5-9, 2011. Conference participants will consist of current students from the Harvard Law School (HLS) and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), as well as selected researchers, lawyers, executives, faculty members, and technologists from the Harvard community and beyond.

Logistics and Program Agenda

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DRAFT Program Agenda

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:00		Introductory Session 9:00 to 10:30	The Changing Internet (cybersecurity) 9:00 to 10:00	Digital Humanities 9:00 to 10:30	Privacy (Short Pillar) 9:00 to 10:00
9:30		The History of the Internet 9:30 to 10:30
10:00			30-minute break		30-minute break
10:30		30-minute break	Selected IP Issues 10:30 to 12:00	30-minute break	Privacy (Roundtable) 10:30 to 12:00
11:00		Open Systems/Access 11:00 to 12:30		Digital Libraries, Archives, and Rights Registries Case Study 11:00 to 12:00
11:30
12:00			Lunch 12:00 to 1:00	Lunch 12:00 to 1:00	Lunch 12:00 to 1:00
12:30		Lunch 12:30 to 1:30
1:00			User Innovation 1:00 to 2:00	The Global Internet 1:00 to 2:00	Student Finale 1:00 to 2:00
1:30		Online Liberty and FOE 1:30 to 2:30
2:00			Youth and Media Case Study 2:00 to 3:00	Cooperation 2:00 to 3:00	Minds for Sale 2:00 to 3:00
2:30		30-minute break
3:00		GNI/Role of Intermediaries 3:00 to 4:00	30-minute break	30-minute break	Looking Ahead 3:00 to 4:00
3:30			The Study of the Internet 3:30 to 4:30	Mutual Aid (intro) and The Future of the Internet (panel) 3:30 to 5:00
4:00		History of Cyberlaw and Berkman Center 4:00 to 5:00			Final BBQ 4:00 to 6:00+
4:30			mid-point check-in
5:00
5:30
6:00		Berkman Center Open House 6:00 to 8:00	Optional Evening Session 6:00 to 8:00	Optional Evening Session 6:00 to 8:00
6:30
7:00
7:30
8:00

Schedule last updated July 13, 4PM

Program Materials

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The Pillars of iLaw

Network Access and Open Systems
Privacy
Intellectual Property
Cybersecurity
Online Liberty
Digital Humanities

Cross-sectional Modules

History of Cyberlaw
Methodologies
The Global Internet and Internationalization
User Innovation

Examples and Case Studies

Digital Libraries and Archives
Youth and Media
Cloud Computing
Broadband
The Future of the Internet
Minds for Sale
Case Study: WikiLeaks
Case Study: User Innovation
Case Study: GNI/Role of Intermediaries
Case Study: Herdict