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   Tomorrow is the first day of class for my spring course on Internet, Law and Politics. 

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      The core texts are: <br />

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         Yochai Benkler, <a href="http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php/Main_Page">The Wealth of Networks</a> (Yale University Press, 2006).<br /><br />Jodi Dean, Jon W. Anderson, and Geert Lovink, <a href="http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Reformatting_Politics-ISBN_0415952972.html?isrc=b-search">Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society</a> (Routledge, 2006).<br /><br />Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain, Access Denied, (forthcoming, MIT Press, 2007).<br /><br />William W. Fisher, III, <a href="http://tfisher.org/">Promises to Keep</a> (Stanford, 2004).<br /><br />Dan Gillmor, <a href="http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/">We the Media</a> (O&rsquo;Reilly, 2005).<br /><br />Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World (Oxford, 2006).<br /><br />Lawrence Lessig, <a href="http://codev2.cc">Code 2.0</a> (Basic Books, 2006). &nbsp;<br /><br />Eric von Hippel, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/books.htm">Democratizing Innovation</a> (2005).

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      For the first day:

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         The readings for the first day are on the topic of multinational Internet companies doing business in regimes that require them to carry out censorship and surveillance.&nbsp; <br /><br />Check out: <a href="http://www.google.cn">Google.cn</a> and the <a href="http://opennet.net/google_china/">Search Compare Tool</a>. <br /><br />Read the <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?tab=main&bill=h109-4780">Global Online Freedom Act.</a><br /><br />Read the <a href="http://www.socialfunds.com/news/release.cgi/7272.html">news release</a>.