Honors Think Tank On Transparency & Privacy in a Web 2.0 World: Week Ten Resources

U.S. Dept of Justice

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

American Civil Liberties Union

Open Court

This Week's Topics:

• Open/closed judicial proceedings
• Cameras in courtroom; internet streaming of proceedings; live blogging and tweeting
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Readings/Viewings:

• “Portable Electronic Devices in the Courtroom,” Steve Zansberg and Janna Fischer (2011)
• “How Blogging Affects Legal Proceedings,” New York Law Journal, May 13, 2009
• Review “Open Court” website at http://opencourt.us
• United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Wikipedia entry available at http://en.wikipedia.org
• Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Set to Expire May 27, 2011, Congressional Research Service Report (March 1, 2011)

Guest Presenter(s):

• Tim Shea, Utah Administrative Office of the Courts

Student Presenter(s)

• Christiana Tu

Student Scribe

• Isabella Ghabash

Books

• Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice
• The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: overview and modifications
• Law on display: the digital transformation of legal persuasion and judgment

Journal Articles

• American Spectator: Cameras in the Courtroom
• Will Twitter Be Following You in the Courtroom?: Why Reporters Should Be Allowed to Broadcast During Courtroom Proceedings
• Walls (And Wires) Have Ears: The Background and First Ten Years of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978

Popular Media

• Social media open new doors for litigation
• Google and governments: The delicate relationship