CS491 Computing Law, Policy & Ethics, Spring 2013

(Special topics. Approval as permanent new course CS477, "Public Policy, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing, Privacy, and Security" nearly complete; awaiting final vote by UIC Faculty Senate, but will not be formally in place until after the semester.)

History will record what we, here in the early decades of the information age, did to foster freedom, liberty, and democracy. Did we build information technologies that protected people’s freedoms even during times when society tried to subvert them? Or did we build technologies that could easily be modified to watch and control?

Bruce Schneier, Crypto-Gram Blog, July 15, 2007

Team taught:

Prof. Richard Warner, Chicago-Kent/IIT School of Law.
Prof. Robert Sloan, UIC Computer Science Department.

Location

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00–3:15
Tuesdays: Kent Law School Room 170 (565 W. Adams St.)
Thursdays: UIC Taft Hall Room 208
(Middle of block bounded by Halsted, Morgan, Taylor & Harrison, a little closer to Morgan than Taylor)
(UIC Students only will meet Tuesday January 15 at UIC location)

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For UIC students, a Blackboard site will be used only to record grades.

For all students, we will make heavy use of a Piazza site for the course.

Syllabus

Main Syllabus for January 17 onward

• syllabus_computer_and_network_privacy_and_security_Feb_26_2017.pdf Late February version. (This syllabus will continue to be updated, but we will only be diligent about keeping it up to date on the class Piazza website.)

Syllabus for UIC students only for Week of January 10-13, 2017

This week only we will not meet jointly with IIT Chicago-Kent Law school students in the course. Both Tuesday and Thursday meetings will be in LC A4 (UIC), 2:00 to 3:15.

Initial Content: A crash course in American law:

• Source of US law: 50 states and federal law
• Constitution vs. statute vs. regulations
• The role of appellate courts in making law
• The role of agencies
• Criminal law, tort law, and contract law

Initial Week Reading for UIC students only, complete before the first meeting if possible, certainly right after:

Orin S. Kerr, How to Read a Legal Opinion

Homework for UIC students, out Tuesday, Jan. 10, due start of class, Thursday, Jan. 12

is posted to the class Piazza site

• Syllabus_2013_January_16.pdf: Syllabus_2013_January_16.pdf