Thomas Jefferson, the Internet, and Egypt - David G. Post

david postInformiamo gli interessati che venerdì 11 marzo 2011, alle h. 14.30, alla stanza n. 2 del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche dell'Università di Torino, via Sant’Ottavio 54, il professor David G. Post, della Beasley School of Law, Temple University, terrà una conferenza dal titolo:


Thomas Jefferson, the Internet, and Egypt

The events of the past several months have shifted the ground in the debates about the Internet, Internet law, and Internet regulation. Though many people, even in 2010, doubted the power of the Net to transform human society, far, far fewer do so in 2011. What can we learn from the astonishing developments in the Middle East -- about the Internet, and Internet law and policy? We will (and should) be discussing that question for a long time. I want to look at it from above and from below; how could this network, which is nothimg more than a device for getting 1s and 0s from point A to point B, have played such a prominent role in the revolutions now sweeping through the Arab lands? What does that mean? And second, what role did (and does) the law play in helping to bring that about?


David Post è autore del libro In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace, (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009), che ha ricevuto sia il Green Bag “Exemplary Legal Writing 2009” award sia il Friel-Scanlon Legal Scholarship award.

Introducono i professori Marco Ricolfi della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza e Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico di Torino, co-direttori del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società.

La partecipazione alla conferenza è libera fino a esaurimento posti.

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