Class meetings:
Class meetings at Harvard Law School will be held in the lecture hall on the first floor of Langdell North (click here for map). Meetings at MIT will be held in room 26-152.
Here is the weekly syllabus of the Harvard course.
Click on the link for each individual week below to see the overview and the assignments for that week, including readings to be completed before the Monday and Thursday classes. (Weeks in the calendar without links do not yet have their assignments in final form.)
| Week | Monday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Feb. 4: (at Harvard) CDA and ISP liability |
Feb. 7: First MIT class Introduction to Internet law and policy issues Slides from class |
| Week 2 | Feb. 11: (at Harvard) Digital music, Napster, P2P |
Feb. 14: Background in intellectual property law Slides from class |
| Week 3 | Feb. 18: (at Harvard) Trusted systems, anti-circumvention, and DeCSS |
Feb. 21: Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
| Week 4 | Feb. 25: (at Harvard) Broadcasting, Webcasting, and copyright |
Feb. 28: Software patent and Copyright Law Slides from class |
| Week 5 | March 4: (at Harvard) Commercial and government surveillance -- I |
March 7: Open Source and Free Software |
| Week 6 | March 11: (at Harvard) Commercial and government surveillance -- II |
March 14: Background in First Amendment Law Slides from class |
| Week 7 | March 18: (at Harvard) Harmful speech |
March 21: Background in Fourth Amendment Law |
| Week 8 | March 25-31: Spring Break | |
| Week 9 | April 1: (at Harvard) Internet jurisdiction |
April 4: Midterm in class Copy of midterm |
| Week 10 | April 8: (at Harvard) Private Sheriffs - MAPS, Marsh, Intel v. Hamidi |
April 11: Communications Decency Act, Reno v. ACLU |
| Week 11 | April 15: No class. | April 18: (At Harvard)
Cybersecurity |
| Week 12 | April 22: (at Harvard) The Microsoft Case | April 25: The cryptography debate Slides from class |
| Week 13 | April 29: (at Harvard) Bringing it all together |
May 2: Recent anti-terrorism legislation |
| Week 14 | May 6: (at MIT, from 4-5:30) Class presentations |
May 9: (at MIT, from 3:30-5:00) Class presentations |
| Final paper due May 16 | ||
| Week 15 | May 13: (at MIT, from 4-5:30) Class presentations |
May 16: Last class, (at MIT, from 3:30-5:00) Class presentations |