Possible Paper Topics


Ideally, a paper for this course should explore both legal and technological issues associated with some relevant question. The following are intended as possible examples; feel free to invent one of your own.

Is ITAR Constitutional? Bernstein et. al. Is it enforceable?

 

Clipper 1, 2, 3?: Is there a constitutional (and politically and technologically viable) way of controlling encryption?

 

Hard Disks, Encryption, and the Fifth Amendment--can you refuse to give the police your password?

 

Protecting Intellectual Property on the Net: Is the Solution Law or Technology?

 

Viruses: The facts and their legal implications.

 

Computer Crime in the Twenty-first Century: What it will be

 

The Legal System in a World of Strong Privacy

 

Can Hubert Humphrey police the Internet?

 

Does Cyberspace Need Its Own Laws?

 

Norms of the Net: How are They Enforced, Do They Work?

 

Shareware: An Experiment in Unprotected Intellectual Property

 

Cyberpunk: Does SF Get the Legal Issues Right? (True Names, Snowcrash, Trouble and Her Friends, ...)

 

Privacy and Computer Crime in a World of Many Nations

 

The Church of Scientology vs anon.penet.fi

 

Can pornography and gambling be regulated on the Internet: Legal and technical issues.

 

Obscenity and Harassment: Can Private Solutions Work?

 

Online Defamation

 

Who Has Jurisdiction in Cyberspace?


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