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
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