Volume 49, Issue 1 State of Play
This is the first collected exploration of law and virtual worlds for the wider legal and scholarly community. This special symposium issue grows out of the first annual State of Play conference held at New York Law School on November 13-15, 2003. The conference brought together leading scholars and practitioners with game designers and software industry professionals to explore the new frontier of cyberspace: the virtual world.Articles
The State of Play
Beth Simone Noveck
Virtual Worldliness: What the Imaginary Asks of the Real
Dr. Richard A. Bartle
The New Alphabet
Douglas Rushkoff
Law and Liberty in Virtual Worlds
Jack M. Balkin
Virtual Worlds, Real Rules
Caroline Bradley and Michael Froomkin
Virtual Worlds as Comparative Law
James Grimmelmann
The Right to Play
Edward Castronova
Who’s in Charge of Who I Am?: Identity and Law Online
Susan P. Crawford
Information Privacy in Virtual Worlds: Identifying Unique Concerns Beyond the Online and Offline Worlds
Tal Z. Zarksy
Virtual Crimes
Gregory Lastowka and Dan Hunter
Legal Aesthetics of the Family and the Nation: AgoraXchange and Notes Toward Re-Imaging the Future
Jacqueline Stevens
MMORPG's in the College Classroom
Aaron Delwiche
Friendsters, Tricksters, and Playculture
Mary Flanagan
Violence in Virtual Societies
Peter Judmaier and Jorg Piringer
Who killed Miss Norway?
Tracy Spaight
Notes and Comments
Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing?: Jurgen Bϋssow’s Battle Against Hate-Speech on the Internet
Eric T. Eberwine
United States v. Jarrett
Andres A. Munoz
United States v. Irving
Jared Spitalnick