CS3610: Information Crime, Law and Ethics

Online Legal Research

Non-Commercial Sources

• Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute [US Code] [Supreme Court Decisions] [US Constitution]
• Jurist, University of Pittsburgh's Legal News and Research
• Library of Congress Law Library Reading Room

Commercial Sources

• findlaw.com Information on some state and federal laws. Advertising-heavy.
• American Law Source Online (ALSO!),

News Sources

• Law.com, news and advertisements.
• InfoSecNews.ORG --- five emails every morning about information security and computer crime, from major web publications. You should subscribe.

Organizations

Government

• US Federal Courts

Advocacy Organizations

• Center for Democracy and Technology
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Privacy International, is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C.

Other Cyberlaw Courses

• The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
  • Berkman's Cyberlaw Syllabus (wiki)
• MIT 6.805/STS085: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier (3-0-9)
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 1999
  • 2001
  • 2002 spring
  • 2002 fall
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
• Pamela Samuelson's cyberlaw class at University of Caifornia at Berkeley
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 2000
  • 2001
  • 2002
  • 2005 (Peer-to-Peer Technology: Legal and Policy Challenges)