[WikiEN-l] Legal examination

[Jon]

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doc wrote:
> Examination Question: Read the following
>
>
> "Sarah H. Cleveland is the Louis Henkin Professor of Human and
> Constitutional Rights at Columbia Law School. She is a noted
> advocate of the use of international law in U.S. courts.
>
> In her widely celebrated 2007 Civil Procedure final exam, she
> referenced Wikipedia to highlight how fraught personal jurisdiction
> issues have become in the Internet age. Students were asked to
> analyze whether an allegedly defamatory Wikipedia page edit could
> establish jurisdiction over the user in an unforeseeable State, so
> long as the defamation created harm in that State.
>
> She is a graduate of Brown University, University of Oxford as a
> Rhodes Scholar, and Yale Law School."
>
>
> Taken from Wikipedia's article on Prof. Cleveland.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Cleveland&oldid=255771191
>
>
> Students should now write an essay on one of the following:
>
> 1) In terms of personal jurisdiction, analyze whether an allegedly
>  defamatory Wikipedia page edit can establish jurisdiction over the
> user in an unforeseeable state, so long as the defamation created
> harm in that state.
>
> Or
>
> 2) Discuss why this particular Wikipedia article is bullshit.
>
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Apologies if I misunderstand.  Are you asking the participants of this
mlist to do the assignment?  Am I missing something, or am I obtuse?

Cheers - Jon
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