Note: This site is intended, ultimately, to provide links to most of the best Web sites for those interested in "cyberlaw" or "cyberspace law" or "Internet law" -- in the spirit of the Net, a gift to those interested in such things. It is currently under construction and will probably remain a work in progress for some time to come. Because of that, suggestions from you are not only welcome, they are requested. Write me, Nicholas Johnson, at 1035393@mcimail.com
At some point, this site will be formatted to be a little more attractive and useful. For now, we -- my research assistant, Jennifer McZier, and I -- are focusing on finding and adding sites to link and keeping this page as text only.
This site began as a project of the University of Iowa College of
Law Cyberspace Law Seminar, Spring 1998. In addition to the preparation
of individual seminar papers, published
elsewhere within this collection of Web pages, students also contributed
proposed Web pages for a cyberlaw research resource site. Links to their
suggestions are below. -- N.J. [May 27, 1998]
Chris Lambert
Cassandra Neese (1)
Cassandra Neese (2)
David Doobay
Douglas Frederick (1)
Douglas Frederick (2)
Tim Schemmel
David Semel
Statutory and Administrative Material
Cyberspace Law Seminar, Spring 1998
Law of Electronic Media, Fall 1997
Cyberspace Law Seminar, Spring 1997
The availability, and power, of Internet search engines today is such that if you are intimately familiar with a field of literature and know precisely what you are looking for you are probably well advised to use them, rather than a resource such as this. Search engines are able to (a) search more thoroughly throughout the entire Web, and (b) include sites, or documents, that may have been added since this site was updated.
On the other hand, as of late May 1998 the search engine Alta Vista returned over 35,000 hits for the single entry "cyberlaw."
So, if you (a) are researching a subject matter area that is relatively new to you, (b) are not sure precisely what you are looking for, (c) would like to see an overview of the range of categories of sites that might not have occurred to you, this site may be helpful. For example, there may be organizations, foundations, or research centers with just what you're looking for that you might not have thought of searching out.
This resource goes from the most general to the more specific.
We begin with a collection of sites that provide general research assistance: search engines, pages that provide an overview of research categories on the Web, sites that provide guidance on how to use the Web for research. These are sites that are useful well beyond cyberlaw. For that reason, we are deliberately not thorough in this listing, as it is not the purpose of this site. But there should be enough sites here to get anyone started on almost any topic.
Next is a collection of sites that are useful for general legal research. Once again, since this is not the purpose of this site the collection is not thorough. But, again, there should be enough sites here to lead any researcher to almost all sources of legal material on the Web.
The third collection is of sites like this one; that is, sites that are themselves collections of sites relevant to cyberlaw. In this category we do endeavor to be thorough; we are also realistic enough to know that we have, undoubtedly, unintentionally overlooked some sites that should be included. We specifically request that you forward any suggestions to us, and thank you in advance for doing so. E-mail me at: 1035393@mcimail.com
The Web pages of professors who are teaching cyberlaw, and related subjects, are given a separate category. These sites are a sub-set of the general cyberlaw sites. That is, they often contain lists of links to useful sites, as well as some course outlines, arranged by subject matter, with links to assigned materials.
Although not Web sites as such, we have also included references to list serves and e-zines to which the researcher may wish to subscribe.
Finally, there is the category of sites broken down by subject matter. Here again it is not our intention to provide a thorough list of entries. For starters, it would be impossible to keep such a list constantly up to date. Moreover, it's not necessary. Anyone who has reached this level of research is capable of narrowing the search terms to the degree necessary to make search engines useful. We have endeavored to identify a thorough list of what those in the field have treated as cyberlaw topics, and to provide what we believe to be some of the best illustrations of each.
--Nicholas Johnson
--Jennifer McZier
May 27, 1998