Participants' Topics and Conferences

In this table, "Date" refers to the date when the participant's topic was finally agreed upon and approved. "TConf" refers to the date when the "topic conference" was held with the instructor. "OConf" refers to the date of the "outline conference." "1stDConf" to the date of the "first draft conference."
 

Participant	Current (or Final) Draft of Topic	Date	TConf	OConf	1stDConf
CB	Congress should enact legislation guaranteeing due process to property owners in virtual worlds whose architecture allows for (1) the direct, two-way exchange of real currency for virtual currency and (2) ownership of “virtual” property, bearing characteristics of real property such as carefully defined boundaries and the rights to alienation and exclusion.	0128	0217
JIC	Because of the contribution of anonymous speech to the values and purposes of the First Amendment, it should be illegal for a privately owned interactive Web site, or blog, to require those submitting comments to use their real names.	0223	0223
NC	National security laws should be modified to allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation to have access to the technologically superior intelligence gathering resources of the National Security Agency, regardless of the initial purpose for collecting the information.	0211	0220
AK	States can benefit from the economic growth made possible by encouraging the development of a given state's online businesses, resolving the legal issues involved in revising traditional business incentives (such as grants and tax breaks) to include online businesses, and those involved in creating innovative incentives specifically tailored for online businesses' unique characteristics.	0128	0219
JK	Because the marketplace provision of broadband service excludes areas with the highest cost per homes passed Congress should enact legislation declaring broadband an "essential service" and expand the universal service fund to include broadband service.	0209	0219
JL	Because school administrators' punishment of K-12 students' online speech, created from off-campus locations, sometimes constitutes a violation of students' constitutional and legal rights to privacy and expression, there is a need for U.S. and states' departments of education, and education trade associations, to issue regulations or voluntary guidelines regarding impermissible student online speech and appropriate punishments.	0206	0218
NL	Article 32 (b) of the Convention on Cybercrime does not provide guidance to the question as to what extent a transborder search for protected data is permissible ; therefore the art. 32(b) should be amended to provide procedural safeguards such as notice to the targeted state of the object and purpose of the search, the data to be seized, its relevance to an investigation or prosecution of crime, and the risk data could be altered or destroyed.	0202	0202
NN	Congress should revise the FOIA and the Presidential Records Act because these current laws misunderstand the implications of cyberspace on communication and incorrectly label informal text messages and emails as public records when such exchanges are more like telephone conversations, which are exempt from the public’s reach.	0128	0219
CS	The Ninth Circuit's misapplication of the Communications Decency Act in Roommate.com will stymie creative internet applications by obfuscating the line between common carrier and internet content provider.	0128	0220