I. Prologue: The Fox, The Hedgehog, and The Moose
Philadelphia, 2006
Virginia, 1781: Notes on the New World
II. Notes on the New World, Part I: Chaos
1: Mapping the Territory: The Geography of Nowhere
2: Population
3: Networks
4: The Problem of Scale (I)
5: The Problem of Scale (II)
6: Jefferson's Moose, and the Degenerate Animals of the New
World
7: Language
III. Interlude
Two Kinds of People
Looking West
Looking Forward
IV. Notes on the State of Cyberspace, Part II: Order
8: Pathways and Settlements
9: Governing Cyberspace, I: Code
10: Governing Cyberspace, II: Law
11: Governing Cyberspace, III: Getting it to Scale
12: Newton's Plow: Property on the Frontier
V. Epilogue
Jefferson's Moose, The Laws of Nature, and the Nature of Cyberspace
David Post is currently the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace. He is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, a Fellow at the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, and a contributor to the influential Volokh Conspiracy blog. For more information, please visit: www.jeffersonsmoose.org.
"An interesting book...[from] one of the nation's leading Internet
scholars... I hope you will keep Jefferson's moose in mind in the
days ahead."--Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Commerce
Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet
"Reading this beautifully written and extraordinarily diverse work
today is what it must have been like to know or read Jefferson
then. Post has crafted an experience in understanding that allows
us to glimpse the genius that Jefferson was, and to leave the book
astonished by the talent this extraordinary writer is."--Lawrence
Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, and author of Code
and Other Laws of Cyberspace and Remix
"Now and then, ingenious insight yields an authentic work of
genius. David Post's musing about cyberspace, the law, history, and
a great deal more has produced such a work, conceived and written
in the finest Jeffersonian spirit.--Sean Wilentz, Professor of
History, Princeton University, and author of The Rise of American
Democracy
"David Post is the Jefferson of cyberspace, and in this creative,
playful, and entirely original book, he applies Jefferson's
insights about governing the American frontier to think about
governance on the Net. Even those who don't share all of Post's
intuitions will be enlightened by his unique combination of
technical precision and romantic imagination."--Jeffrey Rosen,
Author of The Unwanted Gaze and The Naked Crowd
"A fresh, insightful, and eminently readable look at cyberspace
policy. It's surprising and fascinating how much the debates of 200
years ago continue to be relevant today and continue to be echoed
today, even in media about which Jefferson and Hamilton could not
have dreamed."--Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law, UCLA
"Jefferson's Moose is brilliant--and a joy to read. It is the book
of a career: sweeping in scope, without dropping a stitch of
detail. No one but David Post could have produced this sparkling
analysis of the relationship between the world and worldview of
Thomas Jefferson and today's puzzles of cyberspace."--Jonathan
Zittrain, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Co-Founder, Berkman
Center for Internet & Society; author, The Future of the
Internet -- And How to Stop It
"[Post's] book addresses important questions that we all should be
asking, and he acknowledges the scope of his undertaking with a
candid humility that would have pleased Jefferson."--Greg Ross,
American Scientist
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