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Introduction

Lawrence Lessig is a renowned law professor, in part for his role in the Microsoft Trial and as a skillful participant in the debates concerning our rights on the Internet. He is the author of ``Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace'' [40] which is a book that tells us about choices we should make in cyberspace. It does so in a way that most people can understand, yet his approach to the matter is novel and the ideas most profound.

The work has already received a large number of reviews that signify it as among the most important in the area. Lessig draws from the history and practices of Internet a seminal reference for cyberlaw and sets the stage for determination of values in a new sphere.

This review first attempts at giving an overview of the book's content and then discussing some of its arguments. A book dense with ideas as this one is not straightforward to summarize, but it will be of utility in understanding the necessity of reading it and the urgency with which we should know its arguments. In the critical part I shall try to investigate some of the arguments and connect them with what has occured since the short real-space time that has elapsed since the publication of the book.


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Eray Ozkural (exa) 2000-12-27