Notice (initial notice of casebook, room, time, assignment, posted on school bulletin boards August 20, 1997)
General Information (memo handed out August 27, 1997)
Privacy Material Discussion (memo distributed August 25, 1997, proposing class discussion questions)
Reading Assignments (proposed reading assignments for semester's 14 class sessions, distributed August 28, 1997. Please note that this has been modified by the memo headed "Rescheduling Classes," dated October 2, 1997, below)
Personal Bio Assignment (memo regarding writing assignment, due September 2, 1997, handed out August 27, 1997)
Concepts, Perspectives and Goals (memo distributed August 29, 1997)
Administrative Matters; Assignments (a memo discussing miscellaneous administrative matters, including: bios, ombudsperson, schedules, computers, and a study hint, distributed August 29, 1997)
A Day in the Life: The Federal Communications Commission (a Yale Law Journal article describing the decision making process of the F.C.C. from a Commissioner's critical perspective)
First Amendment and FCC Material Discussion Wednesday, September 10; Administrative Matters; Deadline (proposed focus and discussion questions for reading assignments; deadlines for scheduling and computer information requests; distributed September 8, 1997)
September 17 Exam (advance notice of an open book essay quiz to be given September 17; distributed September 12, 1997)
An Autonomous Media (an explanation of the U.S. media system prepared for a conference sponsored by the Commission on Radio and Television Policy for Former Soviet Union journalists and media executives, republished on the occasion of the Commission Radio and Television Policy: Central and East Europe Public Broadcasting and Globalization Conference, September 19-20, 1997, Vienna, Austria, and the Journalist in Cyberspace Conference, October 11-12, 1997, Warsaw, Poland; although not "assigned reading" students may find this a useful review/overview for the Law of Electronic Media in general, and as insight into the thinking of their professor in particular)
Regulating the Cyber-Journalist (this paper, like "An Autonomous Media," above, was prepared for the Journalist in Cyberspace Conference, October 11-12, 1997, Warsaw, Poland, and may also be of interest -- though neither are, of course, in any sense "assignments")
Rescheduling Classes (this administrative memo, dated and distributed October 2, 1997, and revised October 20, 1997, modifies the earlier "Reading Assignments" memo -- essentially by shifting the assignments forward to take account of the cancelled class October 8, and the makeup class October 30, and by adding an additional assignment for the October 22 class)
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