Schedule of Classes
276.45 sec. 1 - Digital Markets (Spring 2010)
Instructor: Suzanne Scotchmer (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
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Units: 3
Meeting Time: Th 3:20-6:00
Meeting Location: 145
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49913
Main Section Enrollment:
Enrolled: 5
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 20
As of: 11/25 06:43 AM
The objective is to help prepare yourself for an IP or transactions practice in the digital world. You will make yourself an expert in a legal area of your choice, both in the economics and in the resolved and unresolved legal issues. This means doing legal research and business research, in a way that will prepare you to be the on-call expert in the law firm you join. You will be required to make a presentation in class, and should provide readings for the other students two weeks in advance. You will meet with the instructor outside class to work on this together. At the end of the course, you should have a paper, possibly structured as a white paper or a memo to a judge.
The topics include (1) collective rights organizations, (2) technical protections of content, (3) two-sided markets, (4) the optimal design of online auctions for search engines, (5) the economics of computer security, (6) the economics of recommender systems, and (7) open source development, (8) pricing and regulating the internet, (9) electronic voting.
This is a combined course for law students, economics graduate students and MPPs, listed under different numbers, but meeting together for two hours, and separately, each group for an hour.
Prerequisites:
This course is blended with economics students, and has serious economics content, so an economics background is very useful. If you do not have such a background, we can deal with it, and in any case, if you don't have one, and if digital markets is your interest, this is a good time to embrace economics. Economics will seduce you into its fold.
Exam Notes: P
This is a credit only course
Special Notes: LE(20)
Course Category: Technology and Intellectual Property
Course Subcategories:
Law and Economics
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