Mark Grabowski's paper on resolving international conflicts of law in Internet jurisdiction was selected for presentation at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, being held this July at Charles University in Prague.
Here's a short abstract: "The advent of the Internet has introduced novel challenges for determining international jurisdiction. Recently, for example, a French court presiding over a free speech case directed Twitter to reveal authors of anti-Semitic and racist tweets. Twitter's lawyers are evaluating the court order. Consider the far-reaching impacts of this attempt to regulate Internet and social media speech. Do laws of one country apply to a company based in another country whose laws differ? Can a nation ever have global jurisdiction over speech on the Internet? Courts and commentators have long recognized these issues, yet there has been little progress made toward finding a solution to the Internet jurisdiction dilemma. Given this situation, it is imperative to establish a workable framework for resolving such conflicts among governments with differing values and goals. This paper proposes some possibilities."
Grabowski plans to publish the paper in a law journal in 2014.
Here's a short abstract: "The advent of the Internet has introduced novel challenges for determining international jurisdiction. Recently, for example, a French court presiding over a free speech case directed Twitter to reveal authors of anti-Semitic and racist tweets. Twitter's lawyers are evaluating the court order. Consider the far-reaching impacts of this attempt to regulate Internet and social media speech. Do laws of one country apply to a company based in another country whose laws differ? Can a nation ever have global jurisdiction over speech on the Internet? Courts and commentators have long recognized these issues, yet there has been little progress made toward finding a solution to the Internet jurisdiction dilemma. Given this situation, it is imperative to establish a workable framework for resolving such conflicts among governments with differing values and goals. This paper proposes some possibilities."
Grabowski plans to publish the paper in a law journal in 2014.
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