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Program Overview

Since the last iLaw conference was held nearly five years ago, the debates at the intersection of technology, law, and policy have continued to evolve. The introduction of new technologies – and new uses of old technologies – raise a broad range of problems to explore. To name a few examples, the intervening years have seen the growth of social networking tools; Facebook has gained more than 750 million users worldwide and has found itself at the center of privacy debates. Information technologies have played an unprecedented role in recent protests in the Middle East and North Africa, at times in tension with US foreign policy and export controls. In the US, government regulators and major ISPs continue to struggle with finding the right balance points for network governance and regulatory authority.

Growing Internet usage trends, disruptive technologies, increased efforts by governments and private entities to control the online space continue to reshape the cyber landscape. These issues, alongside the actors who provide the technologies and the users who engage with them, are at the center of many global policy debates. iLaw 2011 will be a unique opportunity to reexamine these areas of inquiry and core questions while engaging with the new and emerging issues and thorny debates that are constantly reshaping the field.

The 2011 iLaw Program is designed to take participants through the evolution of information technologies and the Internet, including their past, present, and future. Each module will provide a bridge to the past, beginning with a brief sketch of how a particular issue has evolved over the course of recent decades, both from an intellectual history perspective and via changes in policy, practice, and technology. Faculty and selected guests will use this foundation to explore how technical, social, legal, economic, and policy trends and debates have evolved over time, and identify the primary questions and issues that currently define the online space.

Logistics

iLaw Sessions
Tuesday, September 6
Wednesday, September 7
Thursday, September 8
Friday, September 9

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Program Schedule

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Program Schedule

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DRAFT Program Agenda

	Monday - Sept. 5	Tuesday - Sept. 6	Wednesday - Sept. 7	Thursday - Sept. 8	Friday - Sept. 9
9:00		Welcoming Remarks and Introduction 9:00 to 10:30 Lead: William Fisher	The Changing Internet: Cybersecurity 9:00 to 10:30	*Mid-Point Check-in* Part 2 9:00 to 9:30	Mutual Aid (intro) and The Future of the Internet (panel) 9:00 to 11:00
9:30		The History of the Internet 9:30 to 10:30 Jonathan Zittrain		Digital Humanities 9:20 to 11:30
10:00
10:30		30-minute break	30-minute break
11:00		Open Systems/Access 11:00 to 12:30 Lead: Yochai Benkler	Intellectual Property 11:00 to 12:30 Leads: William Fisher and Charles Nesson	30-minute break	30-minute break
11:30				Digital Libraries, Archives, and Rights Registries 11:30 to 12:30 Moderator: Charles Nesson	Student Presentations(?) 11:30 to 12:30 Lead: TBD
12:00
12:30		Lunch 12:30 to 1:30	Lunch 12:30 to 1:30	Lunch 12:30 to 1:30	Lunch 12:30 to 1:30
1:00
1:30		Online Liberty and FOE 1:30 to 2:30 Lead: John Palfrey	rowspan="2" align="center" style="background-color:#FC9B38;"|User Innovation 1:30 to 2:30 Leads: Eric von Hippel and William Fisher	The Global Internet 1:30 to 2:30 Leads: Urs Gasser and Herbert Burkert	Wrap-up: Looking Ahead 1:30 to 2:30 Lead: TBD
2:00
2:30		30-minute break	30-minute break	Cooperation	2:30 to 3:30 Lead: Yochai Benkler
3:00		Exploring the Arab Spring 3:00 to 4:00 Leads: John Palfrey, Yochai Benkler, Charles Nesson, and others	Privacy 3:00 to 4:30 Leads: John Palfrey and Herbert Burkert
3:30				30-minute break
4:00		From Theory to Practice: Featured Projects 4:00 to 5:00 Lead/Moderator: John Palfrey		Student Presentations? 4:00 to 5:00 Lead: TBD	Final BBQ 4:00 to 6:00+
4:30			The Study of the Internet: New Methods for New Technologies 3:30 to 4:30 Moderator: John Palfrey
5:00				*Mid-point Check-in, Part 1* 5:00 to 5:15 Lead: Charles Nesson
5:30
6:00	Drinks at Cambridge Common? 6:00 to 8:00	Berkman Center Open House 6:00 to 8:00	MetaLab Event 6:00 to 8:00 at MIT	Selection of Faculty-lead Sessions 6:00 to 8:00
6:30
7:00
7:30
8:00

Program Materials

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The Pillars of iLaw

Open Systems/Access
Online Liberty and Freedom of Expression
The Changing Internet: Cybersecurity
Intellectual Property
Privacy
Digital Humanities

Cross-sectional Modules

User Innovation
The Global Internet and Internationalization (retitle)
Case Study: User Innovation
Youth and Media
Digital Libraries and Archives (this page will be retitled)
Case Study: Exploring the Arab Spring

Examples and Case Studies

The Future of the Internet

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Case Study: Herdict
Cloud Computing
Case Study: GNI/Role of Intermediaries
Minds for Sale
Broadband
Case Study: WikiLeaks

Pages to be deleted/repurposed

History of Cyberlaw
Methodologies