Using Bentley s Trading Room , as well as the Internet as a primary resource for pulling up cases and readings, students will study copyright and trademark infringement, advertising on the World Wide Web, and jurisdiction over interstate commerce and sales tax issues. Videoconferences are planned with representatives from a major corporation, a publishing house, and law school faculty teaching cyberlaw, to discuss the dynamic relative to these issues. The third course proposed will focus on Cyberlaw and Society, expanding material presented in the one-week intensive. The technical aspects of this revolution are amazing. Team-teaching Law and Society is intriguing to Jim Ostrow.
Law is shaped by various cultural forces.
We have students act out a case as lawyers from the legal perspective. Then we have them debate the issues according to their personal feelings. The sociological task is to tease out the values and beliefs that are presented within a student s reported opinions. The class is then viewed as a microcosm of the larger culture and we examine how cultural attitudes interact with the practices and decisions made within the U.S. legal system. In keeping with the mission of Bentley as the business school for the information age, these are certainly in line with our goals.