[Chapter-delegates] In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace - 3/17 5pm webcast

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Tuesday, March 17, 5:00 pm

Austin East Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School 

This event will be webcast live at 5:00PM ET.   (=1600UTC I think!)
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Who governs the Internet, and how? What kind of law does
it have, what kind of law should it have, and who will
make that law? David G. Post will be discussing these
questions and his recently-published book, In Search of
Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace
(Oxford), which looks at these questions through
Jefferson's eyes, re-creating Jefferson’s encyclopedia of
the New World ("Notes on the State of Virginia," 1786),
but this time for cyberspace.  What kind of a “place” is
it? How does it work? How did it grow as fast as it did?
What kind of new things, and what kind of old things, are
out there?  How did they get there, and how do they get
from one place to another? What kinds of communities form
there? What principles should guide our law-making
efforts, and the design of our law-making institutions,
in a global place like this? (And along the way, he tries
to figure out why Jefferson had a moose shipped to him in
Paris while he was serving as US minister to France and
mounted in the lobby of his residence.  What was he up
to?)

What people are saying about the book...

“Brilliant - and a joy to read. The book of a career:
sweeping in scope, without dropping a stitch of detail.”
-Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law
School and Berkman Center Co-founder

"The book is an entertaining and thoughtful discussion of
the intellectual struggles at the founding of the
American republic, and how they parallel dilemmas about
the nature of the Internet." -Harry Lewis, Berkman Fellow
and former Dean of Harvard College About David

David G. Post is currently the Stern Professor of Law at
the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, where he
teaches intellectual property law and the law of
cyberspace.  He is also a Fellow at the Institute for
Information Law and Policy at New York Law School.
His writings can be accessed online at http://www.davidpost.com or
http://jeffersonsmoose.org



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