When Beth Cate, asso­ciate general counsel at Indiana University, was researching cyberbullying, she noticed that companies were delving into all the same issues. They, too, were adopting policies on social networking and online speech because harassment and bullying are also issues in the workplace.

“We’re talking about human behavior,” Cate says. Not to mention the challenge of codifying rules in a world that changes before the ink is dry—or the document saved. “The law couldn’t keep pace if it wanted to,” she adds. “I don’t think it should try.”

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