The schedule and reading list are subject to change. Changes are especially likely before and during the first week. Please re-check this page periodically.
| Date | Topic | Reading |
| Feb 4 | Electronic Voting |
U.S. Election Assistance Commission, U.S. Constitutional Provisions [Regarding Elections] Pew Center on the States, The Help America Vote Act at 5, 2007 Clive Thompson, Can You Count on Voting Machines?, New York Times Magazine, January 6, 2008 |
| Feb 11 | Naming and Internet Governance |
Kathleen Fuller, ICANN: The Debate Over Governing the Internet, Duke Law and Technology Review, 2001 Kenneth Neil Cukier, Who Will Control the Internet?, Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 2005. Kenneth Neil Cukier, No Joke, Foreign Affairs online update, Dec. 28, 2005 |
| Feb 18 | Spectrum Policy |
Kevin Werbach, Radio Revolution: The Coming Age of Unlicensed Wireless, New America Foundation, 2004. Gerald R. Faulhaber and David Farber, Spectrum Management: Property Rights, Markets, and the Commons, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, 2003. Drew Clark, Spectrum Wars, National Journal Technology Daily, Feb. 18, 2005. |
| Feb 25 | Privacy | Daniel J. Solove and Chris Jay Hoofnagle, A Model Regime of Privacy Protection (Version 3.0), Illinois Law Review, 2006. |
| Mar 4 | Patents |
Cornell Legal Information Institute. Patent Law: An Overview. James J. Bessen and Michael J. Meurer. Of Patents and Property. Regulation, Winter 2008-2009 issue. Mark A. Lemley. Ignoring Patents. Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2008, No. 19, 2008. |
| Mar 11 | Copyright |
William M. Landes and Douglas Lichtman. Indirect Liability for Copyright Infringement: An Economic Perspective. U. Chicago Law and Economics Working Paper, Feb. 2003. Supreme Court decision in MGM v. Grokster, 2005. |
| Mar 25 | Competition |
Carl Shapiro, Competition Policy in the Information Economy, 1999. Timothy F. Bresnahan, Pro-Innovation Competition Policy: Microsoft and Beyond, 2003. |
| Apr 1 | Infotech in health care |
Hillestad, Bigelow, Bower, Girosi, Meili, Scovilld, and Taylor. Can Electronic Medical Record Systems Transform Health Care? Potential Health Benefits, Savings, and Costs. Health Affairs, 24(5):1103-17. Taylor, Bower, Girosi, Bigelow, Fonkych, and Hillestad. Promoting Health Information Technology: Is There A Case For More-Aggressive Government Action?. Health Affairs, 24(5):1234-45. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework For Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Information. December 2008. |
| Apr 8 | Network Neutrality | Tim Wu. The Broadband Debate: A User's Guide. Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Vol. 3, No. 69, 2004. |
| Apr 15 | E-Government |
Beth Simone Noveck. Wiki-Government. Democracy, Winter 2008. Dvid Robinson, Harlan Yu, William P. Zeller, and Edward W. Felten. Government Data and the Invisible Hand, Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 11, 2008. |
| Apr 22 | Computer Security |
Wikipedia entries for computer virus, computer worm, botnet Douglas Barnes, Deworming the Internet, Texas Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 1, Nov. 2004. |
| Apr 29 | Telecom, VoIP, and Wiretapping |
Federal Communications Commission, VoIP / Internet Voice Fact Sheet. Orin S. Kerr, Internet Surveillance Law After the USA Patriot Act: The Big Brother That Isn't, Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 97, 2003. (Part I (pp. 610-623) only) Charlie Savage, Wiretaps Said to Sift All Overseas Contacts, Boston Globe, Dec. 23, 2005. K.A. Taipale, Whispering Wires and Warrantless Wiretaps: Data Mining and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, NYU Rev. Law & Security, Spring 2006. |