Class meetings: Thursdays, 2-5 in room 4-231
Many of the writing assignments will be done with the writing rotisserie, as described in the course general information. Everyone who is admitted to the course should register for the writing rotisserie on Thursday evening, September 6, in order to get the writing assignment that will be posted on Friday morning.
Each week, you should check the link to the "assignment for the following week" to see what you should start working on for the next week. If there is text in the box, but no link, that means we have not yet posted the final version of the assignment.| Class | Topic | Assignment for the following week. |
|---|---|---|
| Unit A: Regulating the decentralized Internet | ||
| Sept. 6 | First class: Course overview and introduction; policy making and the structure of law; Reno v. ACLU | Reading about personal information, case briefing practice. See assignment here |
| Sept. 13 | Personal information on the web. | Readings in international issues; generating a FOAF file. See assignment here |
| Sept. 20 | (1) Accountability architectures for the Web
(2) International issues |
Read seminal Fourth Amendment cases. See assignment here |
| Unit B: Government surveillance and data mining | ||
| Sept. 27 | Fourth Amendment foundations | Prepare for Oct. 4 moot court. See assignment here |
| Oct. 4 | Moot court on transactional records | Readings for Oct. 11 on the PATRIOT Act; term paper proposal
due
See assignment here |
| Oct. 11 | Data mining, PATRIOT Act | For Oct. 18: continue paper preparation; TRAC readings
See assignment here |
| Oct. 18 | Guest: David Burnham | For Oct. 25: Prepare for mock Congressional hearing
See assignment here |
| Oct. 25 | Congressional hearing on datamining | For Nov. 1: Student paper review, readings on copyright,
ligthning talks for half the class.
See assignment here |
| Start of crunch time for term papers. See schedule of milestones here | ||
| Unit C: Copyright | ||
| Nov. 1 | Basics of copyright law
Lightning talks, group 1 |
For Nov. 8: Term paper thesis and summary
See assignment here |
| Nov. 8 | Copyright: DMCA, Sony, Napster, Grokster
Lightning talks, group 2 |
For Nov. 15: Work on paper (deadline, Nov. 18).
See assignment here |
| Unit D: Regulatory frameworks | ||
| Nov. 15 | Foundations of broadcast regulation | No assignment |
| Nov. 22 | Thanksgiving vacation | For Nov. 29: Readings in medical record privacy
See assignment here |
| Medical record privacy | For Dec. 5: Wrapping up
See assignment here | |
| Wrapping up | ||
| Final papers are due before December 12. | ||