| Cyberlaw: Difficult Problems |
| Course Number: 495-0-01 |
Zittrain | 3 Units |
This course will explore difficult problems in cyberspace, presented by guests who are confronting them. Guests may include academics, technologists, businesspeople, regulators, and social entrepreneurs whose puzzles require solutions that span disciplines and approaches. Students' final contributions will be to make meaningful progress on one of the problems.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The course is jointly offered with Harvard Law School, and will meet at Stanford. Half the students will hail from HLS. The course will meet for two hours DAILY weekdays from January 4 through January 21, meeting by default in the evenings.
Current agenda - subject to change:
(1) The challenges and future of Wikipedia and other forms of unusual online cooperation
(2) "Ubiquitous human computing," e.g., LiveOps, Innocentive, and Mechanical Turk
(3) The Global Network Initiative and corporate ethics in a digital space
(4) Cybersecurity and cyberwarfare - policy and technology"
Students must be prepared to take an active role in the course, to manage the compressed course January meeting times with other commitments, and to embrace experimentation in course format and with new technologies. Prerequisites: at least one course in cyberlaw or related fields.
Students interested in enrolling in this course can access the application web site at < http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/forms/cyberlaw2010.cgi> to apply. The deadline for Stanford student applications is September 30.
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| Calendar: Quarter Calendar |
| Enrollment: Consent - Max Enrollment 20 |
| Grading system: Honors-Pass |
| Elements used in grading: Attendance, participation, final paper |
| Type of exam: None |
| Specific graduation requirements met: Writing |
| Special instructions, rules or deadlines: Prerequisites: See course description |
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