Lecturer of Legal Studies
106 Gordon Hall / 413.577.1394
gaitenby [at] legal dot umass dot edu.
Alan Gaitenby has been with Legal Studies and the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution since 1999 when he began as the peer mediation project coordinator, Cyberweek administrator, and Center research associate. Presently Gaitenby is the Center’s assistant director. Gaitenby has been a teaching assistant, post-doc, and now lecturer for the legal studies department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Course offerings include: Civil Liberties, Law and Social Activism, Legal Communities and Cyberspace, Law and Media, Law’s Mediation, Legal Fictions, Makin’ it and Fakin’ it, No Place To Hide: Law and Politics in the Information Age, and Online Dispute Resolution: Conflict in Cyberspace. Gaitenby’s interests stretch from the construction of socially meaningful spaces (online and off), to the political and social implications of the discourse of exposure / privacy, and the aesthetics of data.
Professor Gaitenby received his B.S. in computer science, his M.B.A., and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Current Courses
- 391C – No Place to Hide: Law & Politics of Information/Data
- 397P – Legal Fictions: Makin’ It and Fakin’ It
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