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In the heart of the Silicon Valley, legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is at the apex of this evolving area of law.
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Jennifer Granick talks Hilton Hacking
Time magazine quotes CIS Director Jennifer Granick in this short piece about information security.
CIS Speaker: Elizabeth Townsend
CIS Fellow Elizabeth Townsend speaks about Assessing the Arrival of the Unpublished Public Domain in the Internet Age on 2/21 at 12:30 in room 180.
Net Dialogue Launched
Net Dialogue, a joint project between Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, on Monday announced its mechanism for promoting transparency and public discourse in international Net governance.
The website clearinghouse is intended for the benefit of people in government, business, non-profits, international organizations, the media and the public at large. The site provides summaries of decisions by international organizations and serves as a portal to other resources, thus sparing people from having to sift through thousands of pages on sites of the international bodies involved. Meanwhile, Net Dialogue’s discussion forum enables public comment on each initiative and affords groups with deep expertise an avenue to connect with broader audiences.
The mechanism is announced as the UN’s Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) convenes to consider recommendations to Novemberís World Summit on the Information Society. Special thanks to Shunling Chen, Jean-Denis GrËze, Maximiliano Orazi, Jean-Francois Raymond, Julie Shen, and Shaukat Valitov for their excellent translation work. Check out the WGIG site for overviews in Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish!
“Supreme Court puts hacker sentences up for grabs” and “High Stakes for Casino City”
SecurityFocus quotes Jennifer Granick in this article about recent changes in hacker sentencing guidelines.
Jennifer is also quoted in this week’s BusinessWeek in this article about online advertisements for casinos.
First Spring Semester Speaker— Dan Ravicher
Dan Ravicher speaks on Protecting Freedom in the Patent System: The Public Patent Foundation’s Mission and Activities on 2/14 at 12:30 in room 271.
Dan Ravicher is Executive Director and Founder of the Public Patent Foundation (“PUBPAT”), Senior Counsel to the Free Software Foundation (“FSF”) and a registered patent attorney.
2005 Spring Speakers Announced
The Center for Internet and Society and the
Stanford Law and Technology Association
present their spring 2005
speaker series
All talks are at the law school, from 12:30-1:30PM
free and open to the public
lunch served.
details.
Kahle v. Ashcroft Appellate Brief Filed
Download file. For more about the case, click here.
Internet Radio case decided
The U.S. Court of Appeals for DC upheld the rates that the librarian set, and found the non-participant plaintiffs had no standing.
Apply to be a CIS summer intern
SUMMER INTERNSHIP POSITION WITH STANFORD’S
CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School is hiring a Summer Intern to work public interest issues involving technology and the Internet.
The Center for Internet and Society is a leading center for the study of the relationship between the public interest, law and technology. CIS was founded by Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig and is headed by Executive Director attorney Jennifer S. Granick, who also teaches the Cyberlaw Clinic.
The Summer Intern works with Attorney Granick and Professor Lessig on CIS and Cyberlaw Clinic litigation, including cases challenging the extension of copyright to works that had passed into the public domain, protecting the rights of Internet publishers to speak anonymously on-line, protecting speech interests against claims of intellectual property infringement, and providing legal information in response to cease and desist letters sent to Internet publishers.
The Summer Intern also assists in preparing materials and research for Cyberlaw Clinic course and caseload, keeping the CIS website and calendar up-to-date and various administrative tasks on an as-needed basis.
The position is for approximately 12 weeks. Second and third year law students are preferred, as is experience with computers, including email, instant messaging, Movable Type, and Excel. Hourly rate in accordance with the Law School work-study rates, to be announced. Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, writing sample and a list of references by February 28, 2004 to Executive Director Jennifer S. Granick at: Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305-8610.
For further information, please contact Ms. Granick’s legal assistant, Joanne Newman, at: 650-723-4336.
Apply to be a CIS Residential Fellow
Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Law School
Residential Fellowship 2005-2006
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), located at Stanford Law School, is offering a one-year Fellowship (2004-2005) to work in conjunction with its Cyberlaw Clinic on public interest litigation and to produce independent scholarship related to civil liberties, technology and the Internet.
The Center for Internet and Society is a leading center for the study of the relationship between the public interest, law and technology. CIS was founded by Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig and is headed by Executive Director attorney Jennifer S. Granick, who also teaches the Cyberlaw Clinic.
The CIS Clinic is an in- house live client clinic assisting in the direct representation of clients in matters involving security, privacy, free speech scientific innovation and technology, as well as policy analysis and public information campaigns. Illustrative litigation includes representing a company that distributes peer-to-peer file sharing software in a lawsuit filed by the recording industry; protecting the rights of Internet publishers to speak anonymously on- line; and protecting speech interests against claims of intellectual property infringement.
The Fellow will be directly and primarily responsible for one or more of the intellectual property ‘impact’ cases that CIS is litigating. She will also assist on other CIS litigation and work with students in the Cyberlaw Clinic on cases and projects on an as-needed basis.
In addition, the Fellowship provides the opportunity for the pursuit of individual research and scholarship in association with CIS and Professor Lessig. This is a unique chance for an experience litigation seeking to pursue an academic or public interest career.
The position is for 12 months, with the possibility of renewal for a second twelve months. The start date is flexible, anytime from July 2005 to September 2005. At least two years of post-law school civil litigation experience is required. Salary is $40,000 per year, with benefits. Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, writing sample and a list of references by February 28, 2005 to Executive Director Jennifer S. Granick at: Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305-8610 or through the CIS website.
For further information, please contact Ms. Granick’s legal assistant, Judy Gielniak, at: 650-726-8213.
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