Abstract
The Internet has often been described as "borderless," owing to the technical features of Internet communications that make content accessible to anyone with a network connection, regardless of his or her location. This borderlessness has been widely thought both to confound legal regimes relying on territoriality and to fundamentally create a crisis for jurisdictional determination of both public- and private-law matters. Here, Slane dissects the images of globalization at work in conflicts cases involving harms caused by postings on the Internet and demonstrates how these images work to produce a coherence for the field of conflicts as well as the nature of the Internet as a discursive space.
Citation
Andrea Slane,
Tales, Techs and Territories: Private International Law, Globalization, and the Legal Construction of Borderlessness on the Internet,
71 Law and Contemporary Problems
129-152
(Summer 2008)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol71/iss3/6