Required Reading:

• ACLU v. Reno, 929 F. Supp. 824 (E.D. Pa. 1996) (findings of fact 1-48 and 74-81 only).
• John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace (Feb. 1996).
• A. Michael Froomkin, The Internet as a Source of Regulatory Arbitrage, in Brian Kahin & Charles Nesson, eds., Borders in Cyberspace:  Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure 129 (1997).
• The Tao of IETF -- A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force (skim).
• About the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (skim).
• Lawrence Lessig, The Law of the Horse:  What Cyberlaw Might Teach, 113 Harv. L. Rev. 500 (1999).
• David Post, What Larry Doesn't Get: Code, Law, and Liberty in Cyberspace, 52 Stan. L. Rev. 1439 (2000).
• Information Infrastructure Task Force, A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce (1997) ("Background" and "Principles" only) [entire report in reader].
• Declan McCullagh, IETF Says 'No Way' to Net Taps, Wired News (Nov. 11, 1999).

• Barry A. Leiner, et al., A Brief History of the Internet (v. 3.31, Aug. 2000).
• Explore the IETF Web site.
• Explore the W3C Web site.
• David R. Johnson & David Post, The New Civic Virtue of the Net: A Complex Systems Model for the Governance of Cyberspace, in The Emerging Internet (C. Firestone ed. 1998).
• A. Michael Froomkin, Habermas@discourse.net: Toward a Critical Theory of Cyberspace (draft Nov. 24, 1999).
• Joel R. Reidenberg, Lex Informatica: The Formulation of Information Policy Rules Through Technology, 76 Tex. L. Rev. 553 (1998).
• U.S. Dep't of Commerce, National Telecommunications & Information Administration, Falling Through the Net II:  New Data on the Digital Divide (1998).

 

Back to Course Home Page

Back to Syllabus