January 12, 1999

To: Cyberspace Law Seminar Participants

From: Nicholas Johnson

Re: Opening Seminar Session/Assignments


As you know, we will be meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Room 125 BLB.

There is no casebook for the seminar.  (There will be, however, a lot of reading of material off the Internet.)  Primary focus, ultimately, will be on your research and writing.

Some of you have already explored our Web site.  If you have not yet done so you might want to before tomorrow evening.  You will find there  (and elsewhere on the Web) the following materials it would be useful for you to have examined before tomorrow evening:

For a description of the seminar: “Assignments and Overview”  https://www.nicholasjohnson.org/cls99/mem90106.html

For the best description of the Internet/Web: Findings of fact, paragraphs 1-48 (only) from the district/appellate court panel decision in the ACLU v. Reno Communications Decency Act challenge, June 12, 1996
http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/HTML/960612_aclu_v_reno_decision.html

For an up-to-the-minute list of hot cyberspace law issues: David J. Loundy and Blake A. Bell, “E-Law Update #9, Parts 1 and 2, Jan. 6, 1999 https://www.nicholasjohnson.org/cls99/loundy09.html

Wednesday evening we’ll be discussing these items, getting to know each other, and planning what you want to get out of the seminar.