Stanford CIS

Lawrence Solum

By Stanford Center for Internet and Society on

Monday February 16, 2004
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Room 80 (Moot Courtroom)
Free and Open to all!
Lunch Served

The architecture of the Internet is layered, and this has
consequences for regulators.  This talk presents an argument that policy
makers should craft their regulations so as to respect the integrity of the
TCP/IP layers; moreover, regulators should seek to solve problems at the layer
at which they arise.  Failure to respect the layers principle damages the
transparency of the internet and is inherently underinclusive and overbroad.

Read Paper.About the Speaker

Lawrence B. Solum is Professor of Law at the University of San Diego.  Professor Solum received his JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and received his BA with highest departmental honors in philosophy from the University of California at Los Angeles. While at Harvard, he served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  After graduation, he worked for the law firm of Cravath, Swaine, and Moore in New York, and then clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit.  He served as a White Paper Author for the Committee on Alternative Court Structures of the Commission on the Future of the California Judiciary, and he has also served the Association of American Law Schools as Chair and Member of the Executive Committee of the Jurisprudence Section, as Chair and Member of the Executive Committee of the Section on Law and Interpretation, as Chair Elect of the Committee on Scholarship, as a member of the Executive Committee of the Section on Constitutional Law, and as a Member of the Committee to Review Scholarly Papers.

He is co-author of “Destruction of Evidence,” widely acknowledged by courts and commentators as the leading authority on its subject.  He has also coauthored the volume on prior adjudication and related doctrines in the third edition of “Moore’s Federal Practice.” Professor Solum has testified and/or contributed comments to Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate, the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and before the California State AssemblyHe has also delivered addresses to the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, AMINTAPHIL, the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, the Course on Philosophy and Social Science at Inter-University Centre for Postgraduate Studies of Dubrovnik, Croatia, the Philosophy Programme at the University of London, and the World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.

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