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Bimonthly Review


Of Law Books http://www.1aw.suffolk.edu/faculty/ebander/index10-12-00.html
                                Volume 13 Number 1 - January/February 2002


AN INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR
STUART BIEGEL

Beyond  Our  Control? Confronting the Limits
of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace.
Stuart Biegel. Cambridge:   The  MIT   Press,
2001. 452 p. ISBN: 0-262-02504-3, $34.95

Professor Michael Rustad: How long have you had an
interest in cyberspace law? What led you to write this
book?

Professor Stuart Biegel: I became interested in the area
in the early 90s, when I was Director of Teacher
Education at UCLA  and  began the first Internet
training for our student teachers. The Web was just
coming in and the Net had just been commercialized,
and it was a time of great transformation in the area.
All this led to the first cyberlaw courses on the UCLA
campus, which I taught.
       From Jan. 1996 through most of 1997, I wrote
a  monthly column on cyberspace law for the L.A.


Daily Journal (also published in SF as the SF Daily
Joumal). It's been the newspaper of record for the legal
community in LA. since 1888 or thereabouts. In the
article, I tracked and analyzed recent legal and policy
developments. By late 1997, events were moving so
quickly that the column no longer seemed to be the
best vehicle for the sort of analysis I was hoping to do,
and it occurred to me that a book examining the larger
picture in great detail -- with certain exemplars that
would enable me to explore particular areas in depth --
would be a more appropriate approach.
       At first I pitched the book as an overview of
an  emerging area of the law. But through my
conversations in 1998 with two editors at 1MIT Press
who were extremely knowledgeable and well-informed
in this area, we came to a different place... a book that
would present an overview, but also identify thematic
strands and take a position on both individual issues
and the larger questions of cyberspace regulation.
       In the end, as I indicated in my CyberProf post
(and as described in the conclusion), on one level, this
book may be viewed as a recent history of the Internet,


In This  Issue
Interview with Stuart Biegel...................................              ...
Crime, True Crime, and Violence................            ...........................
Antidiscrimination and Affirmative Action........      ..............
Economic Sanctions and Privatizing Peace.....................................


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    Internet..      .............................................................16
    Books Reviewed......................................                                17
    Authors Reviewed........................................................17
    Books Received..................................................              ...... 18
    N ota B an der.....................................................................................................  18
    Rear View Review: Habeas Codfish............................................ 24


Coming Issues: An interview with Valerie P. Hans, author of
Business on Trial. Reviews of Svengailis' 2001 Legal Information
Buyers Guide and Reference Manual, Posner's Frontiers of Legal
Theory.


Bimonthly Review ofLaw Books / January-February 2002


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