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This page provides links to a number of student seminar papers prepared in partial fulfillment of the requirements of a Cyberspace Law Seminar offered by Nicholas Johnson at the University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, during the Spring semester of 1997.
Given the design of the seminar, these papers will be of interest to at least four groups of professionals, educators and students:
I believe that many-to-most of the papers make sufficient contribution in each of these ways to warrant this "publication" of the collection on the Web. At the same time, neither I nor the authors represent that these papers are anything more than student work. Hopefully you will find the texts and references (many with links to sources on the Web) of interest and research use. But the papers are not, and do not purport to be, "legal advice" or "investment advice." The students' assertions and theories should be challenged and tested; their references should be verified and expanded. (Although all endnote hot links to Web resources were believed to be accurate when the papers were uploaded, addresses do change -- and Web pages can totally disappear -- over time. Sometimes a site that does not respond one day will the next. If, after a couple of attempts, you're unable to get a response from a site you really want to reach, you might want to try using your favorite search engine to see if the site still exists with a different address.)
A part of the faculty-student contract in a seminar at Iowa is a substantial edit and rewrite of the "first final draft." So it has been with these papers. Of course, I was also available to students as a resource in their selection of countries, business proposals, and legal issues. But those choices were theirs. And my primary role as an editor has merely been to aid the students in their efforts to improve the quality of writing what it was they wanted to present -- not to assume the responsibilities of a "co-author." Finally, because of the rigors of rewriting, although the seminar and semester ended in May 1997 a number of the papers are still being rewritten at this time (July 1997) and are therefore not yet posted here.
-- Nicholas Johnson, Iowa City, Iowa, July 15, 1997
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Copyright Notice: Each of the student papers is copyright by the author. The authors grant permission for you to visit this Web site, link to it, read their papers on screen, print out one copy for your use only, and quote brief passages from the papers with attribution of source. Any other use is protected by copyright and requires their express consent. Some of the authors have indicated an e-mail or other address, in which case they can be contacted directly. Others can be contacted through me, Nicholas Johnson, at the e-mail address above.
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