Winter term
Professor Jonathan Zittrain
2 classroom credits Winter LAW-34285A
2, 3, or 4 optional clinical credits Spring LAW-34285C
This course will explore difficult problems in cyberlaw, presented by
guests who must grapple with them. Guests will include academics,
technologists, businesspeople, regulators, and social entrepreneurs
whose puzzles may require solutions that span disciplines and
approaches. Students' final contributions will be to make progress on
one of the problems.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The course is jointly offered with Stanford Law School,
and will meet at Stanford. Students from Harvard will have air
transportation and lodging in Silicon Valley provided for the time they
are in residence there during January term.
Students must be prepared to take an active role in planning and
executing the course, and to embrace experimentation in course format
and with new technologies. Prerequisites: at least one course in
cyberlaw or copyright.
Students who would like to participate in the optional spring clinical
must enroll through clinical registration. Clinical placements are with
the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Please refer to the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs website (http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical) for clinical registration dates, early add/drop deadlines, and other clinical information.
Students interested in enrolling in this course can access the application web site at http://cyber.harvard.edu/forms/cyberlaw2010.cgi to apply. The deadline for non-LLM applications is September 15.
The four main difficult problems to be addressed are:
Cross-cutting themes include: