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Jurisdiction and the Internet - Are the Traditional Rules Enough?
Paper prepared by the Uniform Law Conference of Canada that discusses issues relating to courts' jurisdiction over cases arising from Internet use, and briefly addresses the constitutional question of who may regulate the Internet.

International Jurisdiction in Cyberspace: Which States May Regulate the Internet?
This analysis identifies criteria which enable a State to prescribe rules for cyberspace, to subject violators of these rules to the process of its courts, and eventually to enforce these rules.

A Separate Jurisdiction for Cyberspace
This article analyzes whether the technical characteristics of the Internet should create a separate legal jurisdiction, and if a separate jurisdiction would be beneficial to the Internet.

Cyberspace - Here, There or Everywhere? A Study of Jurisdiction
Review of five court decisions which address personal jurisdiction in a distant forum based on contacts through the Internet.

What Jurisdiction Controls?
Summaries and analysis of both cases finding jurisdiction on the basis of Internet contacts, and those which hold that Internet contacts are insufficient to convey jurisdiction. Includes comments on the prospect that cyberspace will emerge as a jurisdict

More Attempts at Local Control Over an International Medium
David Loundy's column discusses relevant cases in this arena, and attempts to draw conclusions. Originally published in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, January 9, 1997.

Jurisdictional Trends in Cyberspace
Analysis of trends, published in 1997 by Henry M. Cooper, a student of Stetson University College of Law, U.S.

Cyber-Jurisdiction
Covers issues of jurisdiction in cyberspace such as choice of forum, choice of law and enforcement.



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