Sorry I will restate this simply as first thought of reading the call for papers for IR How does the Supreme court imagine the Internet? Peter -----Original Message----- From: Sandra Braman [mailto:bramansandra@gmail.com] Sent: December-29-14 2:40 AM To: peterotimusk@gmail.com Subject: Re law at AoIR Peter, on the question of whether or not there should be more attention to law and policy at AoIR, I'm with you, but your post below includes a wild array of quite different sources of and types of law and policy. Anything you do that would be comparative would have to be consistent regarding just what it is that is being looked at. You start by talking about court decisions at the constitutional level but wind up referring to government reports, etc. Governments are complex organizations, to put it mildly, and governance -- with its significant intertwinings with the private sector and informal as well as formal approaches to decision-making and the exercise of power -- even more so. If you were to focus on one specific comparative research project and issue a call for it, it could be useful for stimulating more work of this kind, certainly. Sandra Braman On 12/28/14, air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

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1. Various Supreme Court's views of the Internet (Peter Timusk)

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I am looking at the call for proposals for IR16 and thinking about something in legal studies scholarship where we also look at the sociology of legal personnel not just laws. I wonder if I were to write a paper tracing the Canadian government's and in particular the Supreme Court of Canada's imagining of the Internet from 1971 to 2014 would someone else be able to cover a similar paper from their country? So we could do a panel of "legal imaginings of the Internet". We could simply present all laws on the book about the net and legal decisions.

Also if someone can offer mentorship I would appreciate that. I have been a reviewer for about 4 or so IR's now but haven't got a paper in myself yet.

At IR 14 some of us in one session just chatting after the papers, thought we should try to have more legal scholarship at IR's.

In 2014 the Supreme Court ruled on privacy of browsing. And in the early 1980's they ruled and puzzled on a hacking case before the 1986 criminal code rewrite that brought a crime of hacking into the law books. Whereas the Canadian government released a report in about 1971 that envisioned all that was coming in communication and networked computers. In the hacking case they seemed to not understand what a time share system was or the crime, even though they obviously had access and knowledge of the government report from 1971. Even now in 2014 they are only just ruling on browsing and the government is only recently studying social network sites with surveys.

It's not the same as quantitative or survey based data research but I would present various phrasings/texts of decisions where we can draw out what the judges seem to think the net is.

Can anyone join me in this?

Peter Timusk B.Math, B.A. legal studies

Most of my Internet studies papers are here www.webpagex.org and my old academic blog is here http://notebook.webpagex.org here is my academia .edu page. https://uottawa.academia.edu/PeterTimusk

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