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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		Conference Introduction 9:00 to 10:30	Digital Humanities	Privacy 9:00 to 10:30	Cyber Security 9:00 to 10:30
9:30
10:00
10:30		30-minute break	30-minute break	30-minute break	30-minute break
11:00		Open Systems/Access 11:00 to 12:30	Digital Libraries and Archives Case Study 11:00 to 12:00	Youth and Media Case Study 11:00 to 12:00	WikiLeaks 11:00 to 12:30
11:30
12:00			Lunch 12:00 to 1:00	Lunch 12:00 to 1:00
12:30		Lunch 12:30 to 1:30			Lunch 12:30 to 1:30
1:00			TBD 60-minute session 1:00 to 2:00	The Global Internet 1:00 to 2:00
1:30		History of Cyberlaw and the Berkman Center 1:30 to 2:30			Creative Wrap-up 1:30 to 3:00
2:00			30-minute break	30-minute break
2:30		30-minute break	Intellectual Property 2:30 to 4:00	TBD 90-minute session
3:00		Online Liberty and FOE 3:00 to 4:30			30-minute break
3:30					Looking Ahead 3:30 to 4:00
4:00			User Innovation 4:00 to 5:00	Methodologies 4:00 to 5:00
4:30		GNI/Country Case Study 4:30 to 5:00			Final BBQ 4:30 to 6:00+
5:00			mid-point check-in
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

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
Case Study: WikiLeaks
Case Study: User Innovation
Case Study: GNI/Google/China
Case Study: Herdict