Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies
Harvard Law School, 1998.
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Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

Texts available online (some require Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Reclaiming a Commons

v1.0 (Berkman OpenCode/OpenContent/OpenLaw Conference)

The Limits in Open Code

v1.0 (Berkeley Global Electronic Commerce Conference)

Open Code and Open Society: Values of Internet Governance

v3.0 (Sibley Lecture, 1999, University of Georgia, 2/99)

Commons and Code

v1.0 (Media Convergence, Fordham, 2/99)

Jefferson's Nature

v1.0 (University of Virginia, 11/98)

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Copyright

(Atlantic Unbound Roundtable, 9/98)

Governance and the DNS Process

v3.0 (CPSR Keynote, 10/10/98)
v2.0 (Progress and Freedom Foundation, 8/23/98)
v1.0 (NYNMA, 6/10/98)

The Censorships of Television

The Architectures of Mandated Access Controls, v1.0

The Laws of Cyberspace

The Architecture of Privacy

What Things Regulate Speech

The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach

Tyranny in the Infrastructure, from Wired Magazine.

Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace

Grounding the Virtual Magistrate

The Industry Standard Columns

Filtering Content, October, 1999
Thinking Different(ly), September, 1999
The Cable Debate, Pt II, July, 1999
Broadband Blackmail, June, 1999
Coding Privacy, May, 1999
The Problem with Patents, April, 1999
The Code is the Law, April,1999
Memo to the Leviathan, March, 1999
Pain in the OS, February, 1999
The Spam Wars, December, 1998
Sign It and Weep, November, 1998
Digital Dog Tags, October, 1998
A Bad Turn for Net Governance, September, 1998

Testimony

Before the FCC: In the Matter of AT&T/MediaOne (with Mark Lemley) (html,
pdf)

Comments to NTIA on ICANN DNS Proposal

Testimony about "CDA 2.0" before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection, Committee on Commerce, United States House of Representatives, September 11, 1998.

Testimony about "Anti-Paparazzi Legislation" before the House Judiciary Committee, May 21, 1998.

Courses

Constitutional Law
Contracts
The Law of Cyberspace
The High Tech Entrepreneur
Seminar: The Microsoft Case
Seminar: Fidelity & The Civil War Amendments

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