Cyberspace Law Seminar
Spring 2008
University of Iowa College
of Law
Participants' Topic Selections
As of January 30, 2008
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| Participants | Topic Draft |
| Chris Crouch | |
| John Fox | Internet-communication interfaces that tailor advertising based on message content erode privacy because they require "voluntary" disclosure to third parties not encumbered by the Fourth Amendment. |
| Amanda Furst | Schools should not be mandatory reporters for children's cyberbullying because of the detrimental effect it will have on children's privacy and free speech. |
| James Gretter | I will advocate for the reclassifying of network providers as common carriers to ensure that all content consumers and providers will continue to have equal access to the Internet. |
| Jon Hendricks | Examination of prior failed attempts to legislate for the protection of America's youth and the next possible steps for Congress to take to solve the problem of youth exposure to Internet porn. |
| Tyler Lutz | why the elements of the tort of defamation should be applied to the virtual communities created by online multiplayer games |
| Meghan Maher | The courts should follow the plain language of the ADA and find that the Internet is not a "place" under the statute, because the issue is better left for Congress to address. |
| Karl Schmidt | Iowa's definition for unauthorized practice of law should allow greater freedom for non-profit, lawyer-authored Web sites advising laypersons on Iowa's no-fault divorce law, because this approach would better accord with both the rationale underlying unauthorized practice of law as well as public expectations of the legal system. |
| Sandra Sears | In Barrett v. Rosenthal, 114 Cal. App. 4th 1379, the CA Court of Appeals' decision to apply the common law elements of libel to a claim against an online distributor, despite the CDA's immunity for distributors against such claims, struck the appropriate balance between the free speech, privacy and technological interests the CDA purports to advance. |
| Sharon Stevens | The conflict and confusion created by the diversity of individual nations' rules regulating Internet content could be reduced by the adoption of "Advisory Directives" from the Internet Governance Forum creating a consensus in the standards relating to important issues such as defamation. |
| Charles Williams | Because the third party doctrine inadequately serves the underlying purposes of 4th Amendment reasonable expectations of privacy with regard to warrantless searches of internet search records, the Supreme Court should expand the content/envelope exception to the third party doctrine to protect identifiable information contained in internet search terms. |