Written by:
 Patricia L. Bellia
John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C.
Associate Professor of Law
Notre Dame Law School
Paul Schiff Berman
Jesse Root Professor of Law
University of Connecticut
School of Law
David G. Post
I. Herman Stern
Professor of Law
Temple University Beasley
School of Law
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Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age, 3rd Edition
This innovative casebook starts from the premise that cyberlaw is not simply a set of legal rules governing online interaction, but a lens
through which broader jurisprudential issues can be re-examined. Accordingly, this book goes beyond plugging Internet-related cases into
a series of pre-existing doctrinal categories-First Amendment, copyright, trademark, etc.-and instead emphasizes the conceptual debates
that cut across the areas of doctrine touched by cyberspace. |
Moreover, the casebook uses the rise of the Internet to encourage readers to
reconsider various assumptions in traditional legal doctrine. This dual focus provides readers with broad-based and sophisticated training in
Internet-related legal issues while also making the argument that cyberlaw is a coherent and useful field of study.
Thus, instead of compiling a list of topic areas, the book seeks to
define a set of conceptual issues that extend across the spectrum of
Internet legal dilemmas. While all of the "traditional" subject matter
areas of cyberlaw are addressed, they are placed in a new framework-one
that asks both students and professors to consider what it is that
cyberlaw has to teach us about law more generally.
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The Third Edition retains the qualities that have made the book so
successful in law schools across the country. It is compact, serves a
variety of course formats, builds new cases on top of a foundation of
non-Internet legal doctrine, and fosters lively and provocative class
discussions. The Third Edition provides updated case and statutory
coverage, but in addition, the casebook has undergone a major revision
to provide even greater conceptual clarity and respond to user feedback.
Treatment of subjects has been adjusted throughout to reflect new
thinking in the field, each chapter now includes greater "framing" to
highlight the issues to be explored, materials have been reordered to
make more intuitive connections among different doctrinal categories,
and new stand-alone chapters have been added dealing with Speech
Regulation, Intermediaries, Surveillance & Privacy, and Information
Enclosure. The Teacher's Manual-which provides a detailed blueprint for
guiding class discussions-has also be revised.
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