I've been thinking about how to present a suite of offerings to law students -- a basic cyberlaw course, a seminar for case studies, a group of people working on papers -- and I think something that's missing is actual technical expertise (both in me and in many students).  We have long textual introductions in articles that explain, over and over again, how the DNS works, for example.  Surely it's time to standardize and expect that that knowledge as well as more sophisticated understanding.

So I think I'm going to suggest a technology course (or set of course-lets) to run alongside the basic cyberlaw course.  The technology course would be pass/fail, so as to eliminate anxiety.  It might consist of a few long sessions, or one short session a week.  I've seen a sample tutorial that is given at Harvard, and I thought it was great.  I'd like to have someone do something like that at Cardozo.

The comments I got on "what is cyberlaw" were extremely helpful, and I'm going to adopt a more modular, case-studies approach next year.  This is another authentic plea for commentary:

What should law students (or business students, or any graduate student in a relevant field) know about the internet, networks generally, or the personal computer?  How is this best taught?