Cyberspace Law Seminar Spring 2004 Nicholas Johnson University of Iowa College of Law Iowa City, Iowa

NOTE: This page, and its links, provide the administrative regulations, links to reading assignments, writing requirements and deadlines, and other information relevant to the University of Iowa College of Law Spring 2004 Cyberspace Law Seminar. Once students' seminar papers are available they will be linked from this page.

Anyone not enrolled in the seminar is free to use this site -- subject to the usual copyright restrictions with regard to material prepared by the instructor and students: (a) all rights are reserved by the author, with, usually, (b) permission granted for individual use (viewing, linking, downloading, and printing limited to one copy, (c) but not for posting to other Web sites). (Linking, rather than posting will, among other things, ensure that any subsequent revisions will be reflected in your link.) (d) Any commercial, or other use, requires permission from the author.

If you have any suggestions, questions, or comments please e-mail them to me:  -- Nicholas Johnson, December 21, 2003; revised 20040421 20040505.

"Credits" (for the papers, which are in addition to credits for the seminar as such) refers to the UI College of Law system of "writing" and "academic" credits (based on the length of papers); the College's default minimum for a seminar is one of each.
 
 

Author	Title	Power Point	Credits
Jonathan Bergman	Changing the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 from "CAN-SPAM" to "CAN'T SPAM"
Scott Daniel Clair	Current Legal Limits on Government Use of E911 Cell-Phone Location Information in the United States	Clair Power Point
Daniel Cook	Online and Off-track: Spam proves as resilient to Legislation as it does to Technology
Jonathan R. Ehtessabian	Bringing Down The House: Why The Prosecution Of Offshore Internet Gambling Operations Should Be Stopped In Favor of A System of Global Regulation
Jeremy Peterson	The Internet Community Has Spoken; Now We Will Tell You What We Are Placing On Your Computer
Mary M. Richard	Home Computers and National Security: When Individual Rights and Government Interests Converge	Richard Power Point
Corey W. Schatz	Better Law Through Greater Understanding: A Policy Argument for “Fair Use” of P2P Software for Individuals
Corey W. Slagle	Closing the Door on a Forum for Free Speech: Maybe Zeran’s Heart is in the Right Place After All

In this table, "Date" refers to the date when the participant's topic was submitted originally (or finally, if revisions were involved). "Hrs" refers to total academic credit hours; two for the seminar plus the one (or more) for the paper. It is listed here to encourage participants to make sure the instructor's records conform to those of the main office and the participants' expectations. "TConf" refers to the date when the "topic conference" was held with the instructor. "OConf" refers to the date of the "outline conference."
 
 

Participant	Topic, as of . . .	Date	Hrs	TConf	OConf

Although it is neither a seminar requirement nor a source of extra credit, participants who do not already have a personal Web page but would like to have one, are encouraged to prepare and post a personal Web page while enrolled in the seminar. The URLs for any Web page sites they already have, or may now create, will be listed here. -- N.J.)