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Cyberspace Law Bibliography

 


First Amendment Free Speech Issues

·  Freedom of Expression Generally

American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee, Access to Electronic Information, Services, and Networks: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights, Draft statement, March 3, 1995

Andrews, Anna S., When is a Threat Truly a Threat Lacking First Amendment Protection? A Proposed 'True Threats' Test to Safeguard Free Speech Rights in the Age of the Internet, UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy (Spring 1999)

Benkler, Yochai, Free as the Air to Common Use: First Amendment Constraints on Enclosure of the Public Domain, 74 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 354 (1999)

Boyle, James, The Constitution Under Clinton: A Critical Assessment: The First Amendment And Cyberspace: The Clinton Years, 63 Law & Contemp. Prob. 337 (2000)

Branscomb, Anne Wells, Anonymity, Autonomy, and Accountability: Challenges to the First Amendment in Cyberspace, 104 Yale L.J. 1639 (1995)

Chin, Andrew, Making the World Wide Web Safe for Democracy: A Medium Specific First Amendment Analysis, 19 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 309 (1997)

Douglas-Scott, Sionaidh, The Hatefulness of Protected Speech: A Comparison of the American and European Approaches, 7 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 305 (1999)

Eule, Julian N. (as completed by Jonathan D. Varat), Transporting First Amendment Norms to the Private Sector: With Every Wish There Comes a Curse, 45 UCLA L. Rev. 1537 (1998)

Faucher, John D., Comment: Let the Chips Fall Where They May: Choice of Law in Computer Bulletin Board Defamation Cases, 26 UC Davis L. Rev. 1045 (1993)

Freedman, Eric M., A Lot More Comes into Focus When You Remove the Lens Cap: Why Proliferating New Communications Technologies Make it Particularly Urgent for the Supreme Court to Abandon its Inside Out Approach to Freedom of Speech and Bring Obscenity, Fighting Words, and Group Libel Within the First Amendment, 81 Iowa L. Rev. 883 (1996)

Geissler, R. Jonas, Whether ‘Anti-Spam’ Laws Violate the First Amendment, 2001 Journal of Online Law

Gey, Steven G., Reopening the Public Forum-From Sidewalks to Cyberspace, 51 Ohio St. L. J. 1535 (1998)

Goldstone, David J., The Public Forum Doctrine in the Age of the Information Superhighway, 46 Hastings L.J. 335 (1995)

Johns, Michael, The First Amendment and Cyberspace: Trying to Teach Old Doctrines New Tricks, 64 U. Chi. Legal Forum 653 (1996)

Katsh, M. Ethan, Software Worlds and the First Amendment: Virtual Doorkeepers in Cyberspace, 1996 U. Chi. Legal F. 335 (1996)

Kelly, Christopher M., "The Spectre of a 'Wired' Nation": Denver Area Educational Telecommunicatons Consortium v. FCC and First Amendment Analysis in Cyberspace, 10 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 559 (1997)

Kubler, Friedrich, How Much Freedom for Racist Speech? Transnational Aspects of a Conflict of Human Rights, 27 Hofstra L. Rev. 335 (1998)

 

Lessig, Lawrence & Resnick, Paul, Zoning Speech on the Internet: A Legal & Technical Model, 98 Mich. L. Rev. 395 (1999)

Levine, Noah, Establishing Legal Accountability for Anonymous Communication in Cyberspace, 96 Colum. L. Rev. 1526 (1996)

Lidsky, Lyrissa B., Silencing John Doe: Defamation & Discourse in Cyberspace, 49 Duke L.J. 855 (2000)

Marcus, Joshua A., Commercial Speech on the Internet: Spam and the First Amendment, 16 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 245 (1998)

McSpadden, Nadine E., Slow and Steady Does Not Always Win the Race: The Nuremberg Files Web Site and What It Should Teach Us About Incitement and the Internet, 76 Ind. L.J. 485 (2001)

Minow, Mary, Filters and the Public Library: A Legal and Policy Analysis, First Monday, 1997

Nadel, Mark S., The First Amendment's Limitations on the Use of Internet Filtering in Public and School Libraries: What Content Can Librarians Exclude? 78 Tex. L. Rev. 1117 (2000)

Post, David G., Pooling Intellectual Capital: Thoughts on Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Limited Liability in Cyberspace, 1996 U. Chi. Legal F. 139 (1996)

Semitsu, Junichi P., Note, Burning Cyberbooks in Public Libraries: Internet Filtering Software vs. the First Amendment, 52 Stan. L. Rev. 509 (2000)

Singh, Sanjiv N., Cyberspace: A New Frontier for Fighting Words, 25 Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal 283 (1999)

Slitt, Andrew J., Note: The Anonymous Publisher: Defamation on the Internet After Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union and Zeran v. America Online, 31 Conn. L. Rev. 389 (1998)

Sperti, Angioletta, The Public Forum Doctrine and Its Possible Application to the Internet, UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy (Spring 1997)

Sunstein, Cass R., Republic.Com, Princeton University Press, 2001

Sunstein, Cass R., The First Amendment in Cyberspace, 104 Yale L. J. 1757 (1995)

Tien, Lee, Who's Afraid of Anonymous Speech? McIntyre and the Internet, 75 Or. L. Rev. 117 (1996)

Volokh, Eugene, Cheap Speech and What It Will Do, 104 Yale L.J. 1805 (1995)

Volokh, Eugene, The Constitution Under Clinton: A Critical Assessment: Freedom Of Speech, Cyberspace, Harassment Law, and The Clinton Administration, 63 Law & Contemp. Prob. 299 (2000)

Volokh, Eugene, Freedom of Speech in Cyberspace from the Listener's Perspective: Private Speech Restrictions, Libel, State Action, Harassment, and Sex, 1996 U. Chi. Legal Forum 377 (1996)

Volokh, Eugene, Freedom of Speech, Shielding Children, and Transcending Balancing, 1997 Supreme Court Review

Wagner, R. Polk, Filters and the First Amendment, 83 Minn. L. Rev. 755 (1999)

Wagner, R. Polk, The Medium is the Mistake: The Law of Software for the First Amendment, 51 Stan. L. Rev. 387 (1999)

Weintraub-Reiter, Rachel, Hate Speech Over the Internet: A Traditional Constitutional Analysis Or a New Cyber Constitution?, 8 Boston U. Pub. Int. L.J. 145 (1998)

Weissblum, Lonn, Comment: Incitement to Violence on the World Wide Web: Can Web Publishers Seek First Amendment Refuge?, 6 Mich. Telecomm.Tech. L. Rev. 35 (1999/2000)

·  Obscenity, Pornography, and Online 'Indecency'

Adler, Amy, The Perverse Law of Child Pornography, 101 Colum. L. Rev. 209 (2001)

Akdeniz, Yaman, The Regulation of Pornography and Child Pornography on the Internet, Journal of Information, Law and Technology (1997)

Beeson, Ann, et al., Policing Obscenity and Pornography in an Online World, 8 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 69 (2000)

 

Burke, Debra D., Cybersmut and the First Amendment: A Call for a New Obscenity Standard, 9 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 87 (1996)

Campolo, Joseph N., Childporn.GIF: Establishing Liability for On-Line Service Providers, 6 Fordham I. P., Media & Ent. L.J. 721 (1996)

Corn-Revere, Robert, New Age Comstockery [mirror site], 4 CommLaw Conspectus 173 (1996)

Easton, Eric B., Closing the Barn Door After the Genie Is Out of the Bag: Recognizing a "Futility Principle" in First Amendment Jurisprudence, 45 DePaul L. Rev. 1 (1995)

Kamarck, Mitchell D., Empowering Celebrities in Cyberspace: Stripping the Web of Nude Images, 15 Entertainment and Sports Lawyer 1 (Winter 1998)

Lee, Lydia W., Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996: Confronting the Challenges of Virtual Reality, 8 S. Cal. Interdisciplinary L.J. 639 (1999)

Meyer, Carlin, Reclaiming Sex from the Pornographers: Cybersexual Possibilities, 83 Geo. L. J. 1969 (1995)

Nesson, Charles, and Marglin, David, The Day the Internet Met the First Amendment: Time and the Communications Decency Act, 10 Harv. J. Law & Tec. 383 (1996)

Rimm, Marty, Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway: A Survey of 917,410 Images, Descriptions, Short Stories, and Animations Downloaded 8.5 Million Times by Consumers in over 2000 Cities in Forty Countries, Provinces, and Territories, 83 Geo. L. J. 1849 (1995)

 

Wallace, Jonathan & Mangan, Mark, Sex, Laws & Cyberspace, Henry Holt, 1996

Wasserman, Adam J., Virtual.Child.Porn.com: Defending the Constitutionality of the Criminalization of Computer-Generated Child Pornography by the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996--A Reply to Professor Burke and other Critics, 35 Harvard J. on Legis. 245 (Winter 1998)

Weinberg, Jonathan, Rating the Net, 19 Comm/Ent 453 (1997)

 

 

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