First Monday

First Monday
Volume 11, Number 2 — 6 February 2006: Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace, Ten Years Later

Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace
by David R. Johnson and David G. Post (originally published in May 1996)

The Great Debate — Law in the Virtual World
by David G. Post and David R. Johnson

Virtual Borders: The Interdependence of Real and Virtual Worlds
by James Grimmelmann

Dispute Resolution Without Borders: Some Implications for the Emergence of Law in Cyberspace
by Ethan Katsh

The Life of the Law Online
by David R. Johnson

First Monday February 2006 [Via Law Librarian Blog.]

David Johnson’s contribution looks interesting:

I would like to suggest that the law (a legal system, generally, such as the U.S. legal system as we know it) has a life of its own. The law is an organism rather than a mechanism. It is alive. And I want to explore the implications of this for the development of law(s) to govern the global Internet.

This might be just the kind of out-there stuff I enjoy; I hope he looks at the implications for the development of law and the internet instead of the much less interesting matter of trying to control “the global internet.”

By the way, remember the term “cyberspace”? Seems so quaint now.