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Committee on Cyberspace Law

ABA Section of Business Law


Committee on Cyberspace Law


Mission Statement

What is the Cyberspace Law Committee?

The Committee on Cyberspace Law provides a forum for analysis of corporate, transactional and regulatory issues related to the internet and digital technologies. The Committee works in a wide range of legal disciplines including electronic commerce and contracts, consumer protection, intellectual property, cybersecurity & privacy, jurisdiction, internet governance, and online financial activities. The Committee seeks to identify and address legal, business, and consumer issues affected by the implementation of emerging technologies and to facilitate the creation of legal infrastructures that protect and support electronic commerce. The Committee provides practical tools and guidance both for practitioners who regularly deal with cyberlaw issues and for those who encounter them only occasionally.

How to Get Involved?

Are you interested in the work of the Cyberspace Law Committee? Check out the current "Project" listing in the Committee Documents box to the right. If you have questions about a specific project or subject, get in touch with the Subcommittee or Working Group leaders to get you involved in their work - Open the lists of subcommittees and working groups in the box to the right.

Even in this day of Virtual Life, we still do much of our work in face-to-face meetings. Please join us at an upcoming Cyberspace Law Committee meeting; the upcoming meetings list posted to the right has more information.

You are also welcome to contact Michael Fleming, Committee Chair, Lisa Lifshitz or Christina Kunz, Committee Vice Chairs, and Susan Stephan, Membership Chair, to help you find out how to get involved. Consult the Membership Directory for contact information.


Committee News

Message from the Programs Chair (Jon Rubens) - Sep 16

Hello cyberspace committee members:

We are quickly approaching the deadline for submission of program proposals for the Business Law Section's Spring, 2010 meeting in Denver, April 22-25, 2010. The Cyberspace Committee will be allotted 2 program slots at the Denver Spring meeting. The Section also will consider and approve proposals for up to 14 undesignated programming slots. We are encouraged to submit proposals for these additional slots along with other committees as co-sponsors.

As the programs chair for the committee, I am soliciting and will be submitting proposals on the committee's behalf. Proposals need not come solely from committee leaders; any member of the committee is free to make a proposal. Once we have all of your proposals in hand, I will be working with Chair Fleming and Vice Chairs Lifshitz and Kunz to select among them in mid October. Soon thereafter, we'll let you know the final slate, and you can begin your planning. You do not necessarily need to have a full slate of speakers set before making your proposal, although you should have some sense that you can pull together a panel if you get the slot.

Please respond by, Friday, September 25, with proposals for Spring Meeting programs. Proposals may be in the text of an email message to jon.rubens@bullivant.com and should include:

1. Proposed program title;

2. Short description of the program topic;

3. Program Chair name and contact info;

4. Program Materials Coordinator (preferably not the same person as Program Chair) name and contact info;

5. Preferred time slot;

6. Potential co-sponsoring committee and a contact person with that committee;

7. Your comment on why this would be of interest to our audience in Denver;

8. List of potential speakers;

9. List of any potential speakers who may seek to have the Section waive meeting registration (government lawyers and judges only) and who may seek meeting expense reimbursement (government lawyers, judges, and limited other);

10. Any additional comment.

Keep in mind the following points while you prepare proposals:

  • The Section seeks descriptive titles and topics; general titles such as 'hot topics in ___' are discouraged and may lead the program review committee not to consider our proposal fully.
  • The Section requires diversity on all program panels.
  • Co-Sponsored programs are favored.
  • Each program must have a Program Chair and should also try to designate a separate Program Materials Coordinator. These are good opportunities for younger or newer members of the committee to participate in the programming process.
  • Programs must have original materials. This does NOT include publicly available cases, statutes or regulations, previously published articles, pamphlets or books, or materials from websites.
  • Programs should be interactive discussions. Programs should not consist of a series of presenters giving solo 10-15 minute talks, one after the other. Instead, we seek programs that involve a group of panelists discussing topics in an interactive format, keeping the audience engaged, and inviting questions throughout or at discrete points through the program, not squeezed into time remaining at the end;
  • The Cyberspace Committee's two allocated slot programs will be scheduled at some time on Friday April 23, or Saturday April 24, but exact program time slots have not been fixed yet.

I have already spoken with a few committee members about possible programs. Please don't assume I or someone else will be submitting proposals for those programs! I still need a proposal from you.

Remember, we always encourage topical discussions, presentations, and speakers at subcommittee, task force and working group meetings. These presentations will continue to be announced in the Section's meeting materials, even though they do not afford CLE credits. Today, we are only looking for proposals on full-fledged 'Programs'.

Jon Rubens (jon.rubens@bullivant.com)


Cyberspace Committee Publications

Sailing in Dangerous Waters: A Director's Guide to Data Governance
Written by E. Michael Power and Roland L. Trope Hostile environments and unforgiving consequences are now the norm for corporations whose success ... more

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Chair:  Michael F Fleming

Vice-Chair:  Christina Lynn Kunz, Lisa R Lifshitz

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Modified by Michael F Fleming on September 16, 2009

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