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Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Stanford Center for Internet and Society

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Now for a brief word on Gitmo

"It is an American Gulag and we will not be satisfied until this experiment with human lives is ended," the president of the Center for Constitutional…

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Justice Denied

R. Jeffrey Smith and Josh White of the Washington Post report on the Army's failure to investigate charges of abuse. We had been told that one of the hallm…

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Opening Brief Filed

Today we filed the appellant's opening brief in the Ninth Circuit.  The brief argues that, starting with the 1976 Copyright Act, Congress changed the fundam…

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Internet Radio case decided

The U.S. Court of Appeals for DC upheld the rates that the librarian set, and found the non-participant plaintiffs had no standing.…

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We lose.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for DC upheld the rates that the librarian set, and found the non-participant plaintiffs had no standing.…

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10 Years Not Enough for Torturer

Given the physical and sexual abuses heaped on Iraqi prisoners by Charles Graner, I do not believe that 10 years imprisonment is long enough.  If a military sen…

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Superior Orders?

One aspect of the Graner case puzzles me.  Graner's defense to the court martial was that he was ordered to soften up the prisoners. But, even if he was or…

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Apply to be a CIS summer intern

SUMMER INTERNSHIP POSITION WITH STANFORD’S CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School is hiring a Summer…

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Apply to be a CIS Residential Fellow

Center for Internet and Society Stanford Law School Residential Fellowship 2005-2006 The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), located at Stanford Law School,…