Technology and internet jurisdiction.
The current Internet technology creates ambiguity for sovereign territory because network boundaries intersect and transcend national borders. At one level, this technologically-created ambiguity challenges sovereign jurisdiction. Yet, the evolution of the Internet's technological infrastructure is intertwined with sovereign jurisdiction because the relationship between technology and law is dynamic. (1)...

Elephants and mice revisited: law and choice of law on the internet.
By definition, an essential question of cyberlaw is to define when law will affect actions in cyberspace. Such law might be uniform, such as where nations have entered into a treaty or have adopted the same legal rule. Or, such law might be diverse, such as where nations adopt...

Opening bottlenecks: on behalf of mandated network neutrality.
I. INTRODUCTION II. IN PRAISE OF NEUTRAL NETWORKS A. A Stable Platform for Innovation B. An Open Channel for Communication III. BOTTLENECKS AND ROADBLOCKS: ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL THREATS OF DISCRIMINATION A. Voice over Internet Protocol ("VoIP") B. Threatened Innovation C. Restrictions on Content D. Why Tomorrow Looks Scarier Than...

Digital crime wave: the growing problem.
The Internet has created a new level of worldwide communication and information sharing as e-commerce has flourished and e-mail has become a ubiquitous means of nearly instant communication while emerging as a critical database itself. Almost one billion of the world's 6.4 billion people now use the Internet, and...

'I hope this is your email' Scam Offers No Hope of Profits.
NASD Warns Investors About Latest Twist in 'Pump and Dump' Come-ons WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- NASD is warning investors about the latest twist in an age-old scam: targeting gullible investors through apparently misaddressed personal emails to lure them into fraudulent "pump and dump" schemes. ...

A taxonomy of privacy.
Privacy is a concept in disarray. Nobody can articulate what it means. As one commentator has observed, privacy suffers from "an embarrassment of meanings." Privacy, is far too vague a concept to guide adjudication and lawmaking, as abstract incantations of the importance of "privacy" do not fare well when...

Censorship by proxy: the First Amendment, Internet intermediaries, and the problem of the weakest link.
The rise of the Internet has changed the First Amendment drama, for governments confront technical and political obstacles to sanctioning either speakers or listeners in cyberspace. Faced with these challenges, regulators have fallen back on alternatives, predicated on the fact that, in contrast to the usual free expression scenario,...

Electronic signatures in practice.
Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Digital Evidence Research Programmeat the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; General Editor, Digital Evidence Journal; Associate Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies This article briefly outlines the case law in relation to manuscript signatures in England...

What is a tragedy of the commons? Overfishing and the campaign spending problem.
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS A. Hardin's True Tragedy B. Do Nothing? C. Distinguished From Other Large-Group Externality Problems D. Other Examples of Tragedies of the Commons 1. Traffic Congestion 2. Performance-enhancing Substances in Sports 3. Informational Privacy III. THE OVERFISHING PROBLEM IV. THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE...

Computer crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Defining Computer Crime B. Types of Computer-Related Offenses II. FEDERAL APPROACHES A. Federal Criminal Code 1. National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 a. Offenses Under the Statute b. Jurisdiction c. Defenses i. Jurisdiction ii. Statutory Interpretation iii. Amount of Damages d. Sentencing 2. Other Statutes...