Law 646: Cyberspace Law

The Internet, the global information infrastructure and the concomitant digital revolution present new problems and opportunities for lawyers preparing to practice in the 21st century. We will address the architecture of cyberspace, applicability and problems of mapping existing legal concepts to this domain, modification of familiar legal concepts for application in cyberspace, and the development of new legal concepts to address emerging problems and disputes in cyberspace. We will examine trademarks and the domain name system; copyright and patent liability; speech in cyberspace; personal jurisdiction; choice of law; governance and sovereignty of cyberspace; and cybercommunities, the individual and privacy in cyberspace. The course is graded via a final exam.

Sequence and Prerequisites: None.