General Legal Sources

• UM Law Library
• Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute
• USA.gov
• U.S. Supreme Court's home page
  • opinions
  • orders
  • transcripts of oral arguments
• The Oyez Project
• Federal Judicial Center portal with links to Courts' of Appeals and District Courts' websites.
• U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Code database
• Thomas legislation database
• Follow what's going on currently on the floor of the House of Representatives
• CSPAN’s capitolhearings.org -- live webcasts of Congressional committee hearings
• The Public Library of Law
• Berkeley ISchool CourtListener (Beta)
• FindLaw
• ALSO! (American Law Sources Online)
• Justia
• Jurist Cases & Statutes
• Hieros Gamos
• The European Union's Europa web server

General Background Information

• data.gov
• The World Wide Web Consortium's About the World Wide Web
• Webopedia online dictionary/encyclopedia
• Get Netwise
• WEBalley's HTML for beginners tutorial
  ...or find another basic HTML reference from Yahoo's list of Beginner's HTML guides

Search Engines

• DuckDuckGo
• Google
  • Google Scholar (includes cases as well as law review articles)
  • Google Groups Usenet News archive search
• Bing
• GoodSearch
• dmoz Open Directory Project
• The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
• IPL2
• LexisAdvance
  • (for curmudgeons, the old-style, easier-to-use, and all-around-better Lexis is here, at least until it disappears)
• Westlaw Next
  • (or, use old-style Westlaw classic)
• Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
• PIPL
• Internic's Whois domain name database

Internet News Sources

News on Internet law topics

• Ars Technica Law & Disorder, Ministry of Innovation, and Internet Crime
• The Verge Policy + Law
• WIRED Threat Level
• c|net NEWS.COM Security and Privacy and Politics and Law
• Digital Music News
• The Register
• Steptoe & Johnson's E-Commerce Law Week
• Doug Isenberg's GigaLaw Daily News

General news from Internet sources

• Google News
• ProPublica
• AP’s Big Story
• Gawker.com
• The Huffington Post
• WikiNews

Online newpapers:

• New York Times*
  • Technology section*
  • NY Times Newsroom Navigator
• The Guardian
• Detroit Free Press
• Ann Arbor Chronicle
• Heritage Newspapers Ann Arbor Journal
• Michigan Daily
• The Newseum's Today's Front Page gallery

* Free registration required. Or, visit BugMeNot.com.

General Law Blogs

• SCOTUS Blog
• Howard J. Bashman's How Appealing
• Justia Verdict
• Above The Law

Cyberlaw blogs:

• EFF's DeepLinks
• Eric Goldman's Tech & Marketing Law Blog
• Rebecca Tushnet's 43(b)log
• TechDirt
• Ed Felten's Freedom to Tinker
• Digital Media Project Blog
• Tech Liberation Front blog
• Bloomberg/BNA eCommerce and Tech Law Blog
• Harold Feld’s Tales of the Sausage Factory at Wetmachine

Also of interest:

• The MTTLR blog
• Yale Law & Technology Pages
• Cryptome
• Wikileaks
• The Bed Bug Registry

Internet Law & Regulation

• United States Government:
  • National Telecommunications & Information Administration
  • Internet Policy Task Force
  • Federal Communications Commission home page
  • Federal Trade Commission home page
  • Register of Copyrights home page
  • United States Department of Justice Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
  • Internet Crime Complaint Center
  • The Commission on Online Child Protection Final Report
  • National Security Agency home page (and check out NSA’s Cryptokids site for"future codemakers and codebreakers" )
  • IC on the Record (tumblr site)
  • Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity program
  • National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
  • The White House:
    • 2009 Cyberspace Policy Review
    • 2011 International Strategy for Cyberspace
    • Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative
    • We The People online petition site


• ICANN
  • ICANN home page
  • Domain name Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy
  • ICANN litigation documents


• European Union:
  • European Commission Information Society website
  • Digital Agenda for Europe on Facebook
  
  
• United Nations:
  • World Summit on the Information Society
  • Internet Governance Forum
  • International Telecommunication Union: Final Acts of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12)


• Other nations (a sampling):
  • Australian Communications and Media Authority
  • Brazil ANATEL (Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações) and Governo Eletrônico
  • People’s Republic of China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
  • French Ministry of Productive Recovery
  • Government of India Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
  • Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
  • Qatar Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR)
  • Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media
  • Saudi Arbia Communications and Information Technology Commission
  • Singapore Media Development Authority
  • Vietname Ministry of Information and Communications

 

 

Internet Policy and Law Scholarship

• Pew Internet and American Life Project
• Social Science Research Network's Cyberspace Law Abstracts
• Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
• Stanford Center for the Internet and Society
• Yale Information Society Project
• Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
• ILAWS
• Oxford Internet Institute
  • YouTube videos of lectures presented on Internet law topics
• Freedom House Report: Freedom on the Net 2012
• TPRC Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy
• University of New South Wales Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
• A handful of speciality journals:
  • first monday
  • Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review
  • Columbia Science & Technology Law Review
  • Stanford Technology Law Review
  • Duke Law & Technology Review
  • Berkeley Technology Law Journal
  • Colorado Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law
  • Harvard JOLT and JOLT digest
  • Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal

Online communities

• Facebook
• Second Life
• YouTube
• Twitter
• reddit

Lobbies, policy bodies, and and partisan organizations

These organizations wear a variety of political stripes, but have interesting things to say about something relevant to the seminar.

• American Gaming Association
• American Library Association
• The Cato Institute
• The Centre for Democracy and Technology
• Center for Internet and Society (India)
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
• Christian Coalition Home Page
• Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
• Computer & Communications Industry Association
• Creative Commons
• Digital Media Law Project
• The Direct Marketing Association
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center)
• The Entertainment Software Association
• Free Software Foundation
• Global network Initiative
• Inclusive Planet
• The Internet Society
• Knowlege Ecology International
• Motion Picture Association of America
• Netroots Nation
• One Web Day
• Peacefire
• Privacy International
• Recording Industry Association of America
• Reporters without Borders
• Software Freedom Law Center
• Software & Information Industry Association
• U.S. Internet Industry Association
• U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Miscellaneous useful sources of information:

• Wikipedia
• GEEKTOOLS
• Alexa
• Quantcast
• The Survey Bay
• www.isbn.nu

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