Digital Law, Graduate Tax Program
Villanova University School of Law

Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first?
The earth to be spann'd, connected by network,
The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage,
The oceans to be cross'd, the distant brought near,
The lands to be welded together.

A worship new I sing,
You captains, voyagers, explorers, yours,
You engineers, you architects, machinists, yours,
You, not for trade or transportation only,
But in God's name, and for thy sake O soul.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Book XXVI, Passage to India

This is the main web page for the Introduction to Digital Law course available through the Graduate Tax Program at Villanova University School of Law. This course is open to all Law School J.D. LL.M. and M.T. candidates, as well as being available to legal and accounting professionals to take to continuing educations credit (Please contact Cindy Kesselman at the Graduate Tax Office, 610-519-4533 or kesselman@law.villanova.edu if you would like to participate in one or more of the classes; the course is available on a class-by-class basis for up to two (2) hours CLE credit).

This course will introduce the participant to the world of Digital Law by examining the effects of and aspects technology merging with the legal and business processes. While this course has no prerequisites, either with technology or law, students should be willing to devote some to learning the underlying technology and legal issues.

Please note that this website is in the process of undergoing a format change to allow for easier access to the associated links for each separate class. Please accept apologies for any links that are broken or do not work properly -they are in the process of being fixed - but please feel free to send an email to Professor Mortensen with the subject line "Digital Law Website" noting any problems.Thank you for your patience and help.

Students are recommended to prepare for class by reading any listed materials. Additionally, it is recommended that students subscribe to Professor Michael Geist's daily email newsfeed, Internet Law News.

Professor Kenneth P. Mortensen: email: ken@harveymortensen.com

Syllabus

Classes

Class One
Digital Significance: Technology Foundation
Materials : Slides : Audio

Class Two
Legal Ethics Online
Materials : Slides : Audio

Class Three
Cyberlaw: Separate Law or Applied?
Materials : Slides : Audio

Class Four
Internet Jurisdiction: Where Are We Now?
Materials : Slides : Audio

Class Five
Trademarks: Cybersquatting and Domain Names
Materials : Slides 1 and 2 : Audio

Class Six
Copyrights: P2P, MP3, and the DMCA
Materials : Slides : Audio

Class Seven
Entity Selection for the Ecommerce Business
Materials : Slides : Audio

Class Eight
Electronic Commerce in a Global Economy
Materials : Slides : Audio

Class Nine
Taxation and a Global Digital Economy
Materials : Slides : Audio

Class Ten
Financial Institution Law: Banking and the Internet
Materials : Slides : Audio

Class Eleven
Information Security in the Digital Age
Materials : Slides : Audio

Class Twelve
Cyberstalking and Identity Theft
Materials : Slides : Audio

Class Thirteen
Cyber-Crime and Cyber-Terrorism
Materials : Slides : Audio

Class Fourteen
Privacy and the Digital Age
Materials : Slides : Audio

Legal Headlines

Older Course Materials

Internet Research Methodology
For the Internet Research Class

Cybersquatting Issues

Intellectual Property Issues

Information Security Issues

Internet Taxation Issues

Privacy and Data Collection Issues

Primer on Global Internet & ECommerce Issues

Jurisdication

Consumer Protection

Additional Presentations

Lawyer Advertising

Internet Research

Intellectual Property, 1, 2

Miscellaneous