Week 2 (1/21): The Governance of Cyberspace

2.2: Governance models: Anarchy, autocracy, democracy? (Wed. Jan. 22. 2002)

	David R. Johnson & David G. Post, And How Shall the Net Be Governed? A Meditation on the Relative Virtues of Decentralized, Emergent Law: SAIL: 1069-1079; and at http://www.cli.org/emdraft.html
	The White House, A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, July 1, 1997, http://www.ecommerce.gov/framewrk.htm
	Joel Reidenberg, The Yahoo Case and the International Democratization of the Internet, Fordham Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11, April 2001 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=267148
	Neil Netanel, Cyberspace Self-Governance: A Skeptical View from Liberal Democratic Theory, 88 Calif. L. Rev. 395 (2000), available at http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/nnetanel/primary.pdf
	Margaret Jane Radin & R. Polk Wagner, The Myth of Private Ordering: Rediscovering Legal Realism in Cyberspace, 73 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1295 (1998), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?ABSTRACT_ID=162488
	Lessig, Code, http://code-is-law.org/excerpts.html

Optional Reading

	U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Management of Internet Names and Addresses White Paper, June 5, 1998, http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/6_5_98dns.htm
	Congressional hearings on ICANN governance issues (February 14, 2001) http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/hearings/hearings.htm
	A. Michael Froomkin, The Internet As a Source of Regulatory Arbitrage, published in BORDERS IN CYBERSPACE (Brian Kahin & Charles Nessen, eds. 1997), http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/arbitr.htm
	David G. Post, Governing Cyberspace: Where is James Madison When We Really Need Him? (June 6, 1999) http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost/icann/comment1.html
	Mark McDonald, Living Where the Net is a threat: Vietnam heavily filters content, but firewalls are leaking, Silicon Valley.com, August 12, 2001, http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svtop/firew081301.htm
	Lessig, Code: What Things Regulate, 85-99; Sovereignty: 188-209
	Brian Loader: The Governance of Cyberspace, Politics, Technology and Global Restructuring: 1-18.

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