Focus on trade journals in both general disciplines e.g., American Lawyer; WIRED. Rather than issue press release, send private letter to the editors inviting them to send someone to sit in. Also write to legal project in the think tank world, such as Overlawyered.com at Manhattan Institute, Center for Constituional Rights etc. Invite them to send fellows/associates to the class. They’ll write about in their own publications and blogs.
haven’t quite gotten to all of that yet, but close, and here i have opportunity to reach out through the net through degrees of separation, so here, a private letter to the editors inviting them to come sit in.
Overall Theme: A series of lectures seeks to tell the story of online poker’s fight for legitimacy in law and beyond. Professor Charles Nesson, representing online poker, seeks to map out the contours of the legal battle for the return of online poker by engaging with all sides in the debate: lawyers, the American gaming industry, the WTO, Antigua and the press.
The lectures will also form part of a larger experiment in opening up debates in the legal classroom to a worldwide audience. Each lecture will be produced in successively more complex ways in order to engage with a cyber audience, culminating in a live webcast into second life with second life participants. We hope to show how broadening the participants in traditional debates to include the brightest minds from beyond the classroom opens up new vistas of opportunities for univeristy education.
1st Lecture: The Principle of Law and Prosecutorial Abuse of IT
There is a dangerous game of poker being played between prosecutors and corporate defendants – the stakes are the lives of individual citizens. Join Harvey Silverglate, Matt Feinberg and Alex Whiting as they debate the abuse of prosecutorial power in eliciting guilty pleas from defendants.
2nd Lecture: Poker – a Game of Truth in Life and Law
Crandell Addington and Howard Lederer, two of poker’s leading lights debate with Charles Nesson and Andrew Woods as expert witnesses for the next days debate which seeks a resolution from all parties.
3rd Lecture: LAW as Rhetorical Poker: Antigua v. USA in the WTO
The online poker arguments will be played out in the lecture with the various participants playing from their own viewpoints. We hope to reach a resolution to the online poker problem through a game of rhetorical poker itself.
When:
Monday 8th October, 5pm – 6.30pm EST
Monday 15th October, 5pm – 6.30pm EST
Tuesday 16th October, 5pm – 6.30pm EST
Where:
Room 102 Hauser Hall,
Harvard Law School,
1563 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Google Map Link: Link
My Mobile Number: 6177105703
My Email: dmcmahon@llm08.law.harvard.edu
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From: Douglas McMahon
Date: Oct 5, 2007 12:57 PM
Subject: Online Poker Lecture Series
To: Jonathan Cohen
Cc: Charles Nesson
Hi Jonathan,
I’ve attached the information that we discussed. I have separated it out into the various sections that we discussed and have drafted the descriptions of the lecture series in prose as this seemed the easiest way – obviously all changes will be welcome, however drastic! If you need any further information, such as short bios for the individual speakers I’m sure I could come up with them as well, though I may have to check with Charles that each participant wouldn’t mind if I drafted it, or if they’d want to see it first.
If there’s anything else I can do to help I’ll be near my email most of the day.
Thanks for your help,
Doug
Just to help Ben here is an extract from the Wiki written by Charles which he might like to read to get some background:
The Principle of Law and Prosecutorial Abuse of IT
Position cyberone as a unique method of teaching law that: 1.Takes advantage of new tech to consider timeless questions about truth and justice in fresh ways that are exciting to students. 2. Extends the law school classroom beyond the university to reach the brightest minds within and outside of the conventional U setting. 3. Develops valuable and important new use of virtual tech beyond action games and frivolous chat rooms. Pitch this story to 2 media: Legal press and Tech press. More..
Focus on trade journals in both general disciplines e.g., American Lawyer; WIRED. Rather than issue press release, send private letter to the editors inviting them to send someone to sit in. Also write to legal project in the think tank world, such as Overlawyered.com at Manhattan Institute, Center for Constituional Rights etc. Invite them to send fellows/associates to the class. They’ll write about in their own publications and blogs.
Post a comprehensive video (not just 10 minute clips, etc) on the web via itunes Unviversity or in conjunction with MIT.
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when appropriate (in my judgment) to an open project and not sensitive (in my judgment) in terms of privacy, i may post email to my blog. all privacy requests respected.