日新月异的信息技术给经济、文化和政治领域带来了新的机遇和挑战。本书选编了以色列特拉维夫大学法律系主办的“布克曼法律、信息和信息技术国际研讨会”的论文。它们从不同角度论述了新兴的法律学科信息法所涉及的隐私权、知识产权法、网络法律等复杂的社会问题及其管理，以及股票市场法、电子信息的登录验证及其法律内涵。
本书对法学、信息学等专业师生学习研究以及法律从业人员提升自己的业务素质，拓展视野均有帮助。

Detailed Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
I.Conceptualizing Information Law
·Ulrich Sieber,The Emergence of Information Law:
Object and Characteristics of a New Legal Area
·Eli Lederman,Protected Frameworks of Information in Criminal Law
II.Privacy
·Raymond Wacks,Privacy Reconceived:Protecting
Personal Information in a Digital World
III.Intellectual Property
·Robert Bone,Exploring the Boundaries of Competitive
Secrecy:An Essay on the Limits of Trade Secret Law
·Niva Elkin-Koren,Copyright in Cyberspace:
The Rule of the Law and the Rule of the Code
IV.Regulating the Internet
·Eben Moglen,Anarchism Triumphant:Free
Software and the Death of Copyright
·Neil Netanel,Cyberspace Self-Government:A
Skeptical View from Liberal Democratic Theory
·Ulrich Sieber,Responsibility of Internet Providers:
Comparative Analysis of a Basic Question of Information Law
V.The Stock Market
·Barry Rider,The Control of Insider Trading:
Smoke and Mirrors!
·Omri Yadlin,Fraud on the Market at Common Law:
Lessons from Contemporary Finance and Economics
VI.Authentication
·Shannon Martin,Information Controls and Needs of
Information Flow in Representative Democracies
·Ron Shapira,Forgery in Electronic Messages:The
Demise of Referable Documents
The Contributors
Index

书评
从历史上看，我国的法律体系更多地受大陆法系的影响，法律渊源主要是成文法。在法学教育上，与国外法学教科书注重现实问题研究，注重培养学生分析和解决问题的能力相比，我国基本上采用理论教学为主，而用案例教学来解析法理则显得薄弱，在培养学生的创新精神和实践能力方面也做得不够。将美国的主流法学教材和权威的法律专业用书影印出版，就是试图让法律工作者通过原汁原味的外版书的学习，开阔眼界，取长补短，提升自己的专业水平，培养学生操作法律实际动手能力，特别是使我们的学生培养起对法律的精细化、具体化和操作化能力。