Audit Zittrain's "Difficult Problems In Cyberlaw"

Jonathan Zittrain and Elizabeth Stark invite you to follow along with "Difficult Problems in Cyberlaw," an innovative course at Stanford involving students from three leading schools. Details for the course---including a wiki and Twitter---below. I'm appearing as a guest on January 12.

"In the coming three weeks, students from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford will be tackling real-life problems of Internet commerce, governance, security, and information dissemination at Stanford Law School. This course, Difficult Problems in Cyberlaw, covers the Global Network Initiative, ubiquitous human computing, the future of Wikipedia, and cybersecurity, and is co-taught by Jonathan Zittrain and Elizabeth Stark."

"There is overlap between these themes in areas of due process online among private sheriffs, the role of intermediaries, motivating good and bad actors, collaborating and relying on masses, and privacy and anonymity on the Internet. These problems themselves are not only conceptual issues but also identifiable struggles within their spheres. Students will engage with practitioners and academics–people who potentially hold the power to shape the future of these issues or provide the course with a sounding board to articulate better questions about the future."

"The course will be meeting daily for the next three weeks, cramming in visits from corporate executives, artists, entrepreneurs, academics, and participants of online communities. It also includes excursions to various areas in the Silicon Valley technology community including Ebay, Facebook, and Reputation Defender. This immersion will allow students to gain a first-hand view of the environments in which these problems may arise. Since this course is designed to tackle real-life issues, and in the spirit of open access, the problems we're exploring will be tweeted and blogged, which will serve as a forum to facilitate public generation of debate, solutions, and better questions. We invite you to explore the syllabus and participate in the course wiki at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberlaw_winter10/Main_Page. You can also follow along and contribute at @DifficultProbs (http://twitter.com/difficultprobs) on Twitter and on the blog at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/difficultprobs. We look forward to your input!"

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