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Administrative Law M Tu Th, 8:00am - 9:20, Rm. 108 |
Internet Law MW 11:00-12:20, Rm. 110 |
| Spring 2006 |
On leave |
Contact me if you are writing a paper on an Internet topic |
Time to Hug a Bureaucrat, my
commentary on papers on Internet regulation at a panel hosted by Loyola
(Chicago).
Visit ICANNWatch.org for additional coverage of ICANN-related issues. I also have a separate ICANN/WIPO page.
Other Projects
Essentially final (11/27/98) draft of my 2B
as Legal Software for Electronic Contracting -- Operating System or Trojan
Horse?.
Symposium:
The Walls Have Eyes
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You can also read my original clipper article, The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, the Courts, and the Constitution which explains why mandatory key escrow would not be constitutional -- at least for private use of cryptography. Clicking here will switch to either a frames or no-frames version, depending on your browser. If those files are too large for your browser, Hal Abelson of MIT has kindly hosted a chopped-up version that allows you to just download small parts at a time. .
A pdf version of a (very) short write-up of a talk called
Digital
Signatures Today that appeared in the Proceedings of Financial Cryptography
'97.
You may also want to visit a paper I did not write: the
cryptographers' report on the practicalities, costs, and even dangers of
key escrow.
I did write part of a moot court problem based on an invented cryptography control statute. Here is my imaginary really pro-Clipper court decision. You can also view the entire moot court problem, and hear a RealAudio transmission of the hearing. You can also hear a RealAudio of a panel on "Addressing Law Enforcement Concerns in a Constitutional Framework" recorded at the SAFE forum discussion of cryptographic export control, held July 1, 1996 at Stanford University. The nice people at CDT have also produced a transcript of that session. .
Flood Control on the Information Ocean: Living With Anonymity, Digital Cash, and Distributed Databases discusses the cryptographic foundations of anonymity, and the legal issues it raises. You can click here for the no-frames version.
You can also see my somewhat dated article on Anonymity, published in the Journal of Online Law, which is updated in the Information Ocean paper mentioned above
My presentation to UM's 3rd International Tax Institute: The Internet: A Free Port in Every PC? (slides only).
Flood Control on the Information Ocean: Living With Anonymity, Digital Cash, and Distributed Databases has a survey of many types of digital cash and discusses the legal significance of some of the differences between them. You can click here for the no-frames version.
A pdf version of a (very) short write-up of a talk called Digital Signatures Today that appeared in the Proceedings of Financial Cryptography '97.
My e-cash "position paper" for CFP '97 on the Unintended Consequences of E-Cash.
The Essential Role of Trusted Third Parties in Electronic Commerce, which discusses Certification Authorities, certificates, digital signatures, and dips a cautious toe into the question of ... liability. Also available in a no frames version.
Here's a shorter and (I hope) more accessible article, which starts with the same technical material about anonymity as "Flood Control" but then takes it in a different direction. This essay is entitled The Internet as a Source of Regulatory Arbitrage; it appears as a chapter in Borders in Cyberspace (MIT Press, 1997).
Here is the text of a book review I wrote called Climbing the Most Dangerous Branch: Legisprudence and the New Legal Process. It discusses theories of statutory interpretation and the first edition of a case book called CASES AND MATERIALS ON LEGISLATION: STATUTES AND THE CREATION OF PUBLIC POLICY written by William N. Eskridge, Jr, & Philip P. Frickey.
Hear an Internet audio version of my CFP '98 panel on Crypto and Privacy at the Fringes of Society or my CFP '95 panel, Can We Talk Long-Distance? Removing Impediments to Secure International Communications.
I wrote a WordPerfect 5.1 macro that converts a footnoted document into crude HTML with hyperlinked notes. The macro assumes that reveal codes is OFF, and that the document you want converted is in one window while the alternate document is empty. The macro does not fix headings (style codes do that well), nor does it do a table of contents. To fix bold and underline, find the CHANGECO macro provided with WP5.1 and change them to the appropriate HTML. An additional manual search and replace, plus some cutting up into separate documents, is needed to change this to a frames document.
This WP 5.1 macro will convert footnotes in a westlaw document into wordperfect footnotes. The Westlaw document must have been saved in WP 5.1 form. To run the macro, open the WP5.1 version of the downloaded file, type ALT-F10 then type WESTFN and hit the enter key. The macro assumes that reveal codes is OFF. It will strip off the excess headers and footers inserted by Westlaw into documents, but will leave the Westlaw copyright notice intact. If the macro is working you should see a progress report in the lower left hand corner of your screen. This macro is very simple-minded, and sometimes gets mixed up if there are atrociously long footnotes, so you do need to check the result. Looking at the final footnote to see if has the same number, and same text, as the original will usually but alas not inevitably tell you if things worked right. Even if they didn't, a small amount of manual tweaking will usually fix the resulting document.
Look
it up......
View all U.S.
Supreme Court decisions 1937-1975; or
search Supreme Court cases.
UK legislative, judicial and even
(soon) administrative materials on-line and searchable
Maybe you want to search the Web,
or search USENET, or visit Lawrence Livermore
Labs list of lists.
This national telephone
directory is almost too good for my taste. The National
Archives have a great web site.
Browsing
Citation Search
The Universal Currency Converter
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I participate/lurk in several mailing lists. I am also a member of a few organizations.
See the list of select Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet.
Administrative
Law
Civil Procedure
Constitutional Law
Electronic Commerce Seminar
Intellectual Property in the Digital Era Seminar
International
Law
Internet and the State:
Social and Political Regulation
(Fall 2002)
Internet and the Market:
E-Commerce & Intellectual Property
(Spring 2002)
Internet Goverance Seminar
Jurisprudence
Trademark
Law
I
used to have a
spiffy background. Then it was a point
of darkness in protest against the
CDA (you can see the Final
Conference Report). After the ACLU
filed a complaint and
a good brief on behalf
of a
variety of plaintiffs, and despite a well-written
brief by the Justice Department supporting the CDA, the court issued
a TRO
covering part of the CDA, so I let in some light.
When a three-judge court produced a
superb decision, I let in much more light. Now that the Supreme
Court has issued its ruling,
things are still brighter....
Here is an incredible snooping opportunity. And, you can click here to find out what we know about you. Find out what type of encryption your browser supports. Your PC can talk now. And here's some other important information that's hard to find on the web...although I have found another version .
Play URL Roulette, or take a random leap, or maybe you would like to check on how your stocks are doing, send a fax, or see what the Trilateral Commission and some intelligence agencies are up to. Make some maps!Look up some zip codes! Send a fax! The "Think Tank Times" that has pointers to lots of news organizations.
Or, you can play Internet minesweeper, play Internet Rubik's cube, read a fortune cookie try the maze, read the first chapter of a lot of books, find an e-zine to read, or just get away from it all. Would you like to see how much information your browser discloses about you?
Here is some information on how to become a law professor (under construction), on the joys of economics, postmodernism, quantum mechanics, and Keats.
Click here to learn about Digital Futures, or the Iowa Electronic Markets. Or you could get your politics fix.
Here are some miscellaneous links I have visited (under construction)
I rely on the HTML Manual, but my page is nowhere as fancy as this one.
The high school I attended now has its own Web site; it seems to have gotten somewhat cooler than when I was there (and much more computerized!). There is also a web site for the college I attended (the fight song is kinda fun), the place I went to grad school, and the law school I attended and its library's better page. Now my wife and my brother have homepages too. My brother is the Editor of theWashington Post online aka Washingtonpost.com. My mom's office is on line too. Check out the genetic trail. Dad is now the lone holdout...
Experimental -- DO NOT RELY ON THIS: Send me private email via this
web form:
My PGP public
key is available, but please don't send me encrypted mail unless you
really have to (I decrypt off line and it's a pain). You can find more
information on PGP here, or get the latest in home encryption technology
by getting PGP Fone.
Here is a
useful page on remailers.
Page last modified May 18, 2001. Non-standard disclaimers
may apply. Beware of these fallacies...and
and
these too!
This personal Web page is not an official University
of Miami Web page. See
disclaimer.
according to the
Web Counter.
Passed the 10,0000 mark at 15:55 on Sept. 18, 1997; passed the 20,000
mark in early March, 1999; 30,000 sometime in early Jan., 2000; counting
has been more and more inaccurate (undercounting)
since then.
