The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.
CIS explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to those changes. This work has lead us to analyze the issue of network neutrality, perhaps the Internet's most debated policy issue, which concerns Internet user's ability to access the content and software of their choice without interference from network providers.
Morgan Weiland is a J.D.-Ph.D. candidate at Stanford Law School and the Stanford Communication Department. A Stanford Graduate Fellow, her research is focused on the intersection of law, American journalism, and networked media. Read more » about Morgan Weiland
Kate Westmoreland is a lawyer and policy advisor with over eight years experience advising government and the United Nations on law enforcement cooperation, cybercrime and human rights. She is an expert in the domestic and international aspects of international legal cooperation, having negotiated treaties on extradition and mutual legal assistance as well as advising the Australian Federal Government on cybercrime policy. Read more » about Kate Westmoreland
Join us for this evening talk where Brett Frischmann will discuss the social value of shared infrastructures— including roads, our natural environment, and the Internet—and he will explain why we can no longer afford to take these resources for granted. Read more » about Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources - An Evening Talk with Brett M. Frischmann
The Journal of National Security Law & Policy and The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law proudly present "Swimming in the Ocean of Big Data: National Security in an Age of Unlimited Information". Read more » about Swimming in the Ocean of Big Data: National Security in an Age of Unlimited Information
Have you ever borrowed a smartphone without asking? Modified a URL? Scraped a website? Called an undocumented API? Congratulations: you might have violated federal law! A 1986 statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), provides both civil and criminal remedies for mere "unauthorized" access to a computer. Read more » about Innovation or Exploitation?
Please join us as we gather to remember Aaron Swartz on the evening of Thursday, January 24th.
May 14, 2013
Jennifer Granick appears at 46:44.
Ask Americans what the Constitution’s most important feature is, and most will say it’s the guarantees of liberty enshrined in the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the Constitution.
Americans are fiercely proud of their freedoms but they continue to argue about what those basic rights are and how they can be sustained in a changing world. Are our rights unchangeable, or should they evolve over time? What is the proper role for the courts in interpreting rights? Read more » about Constitution USA with Peter Sagal - Episode II - It’s A Free Country
May 8, 2013
CIS Affiliate Scholar David Levine interviews Derek Khanna of the Yale Information Society Project on copyright reform, jailbreaking cell phones and CISPA. Read more » about Derek Khanna - Hearsay Culture - Show #183 - KZSU-FM
March 13, 2013
CIS Affiliate Scholar David Levine interviews Prof. Anne Balsamo of USC Annenberg School of Communication, author of Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work. Read more » about Prof. Anne Balsamo - Hearsay Culture - Show #180 - KZSU-FM
March 6, 2013
CIS Affiliate Scholar David Levine interviews Prof. Gabriella Coleman, author of Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking. Read more » about Prof. Gabriella Coleman - Hearsay Culture - Show #179 - KZSU-FM
