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Derailed By The D.C. Circuit: Getting Network Management Regulation Back On Track, Edward B. Mulligan V Jun 2010

Derailed By The D.C. Circuit: Getting Network Management Regulation Back On Track, Edward B. Mulligan V

Federal Communications Law Journal

As the Internet continues to play a more central role in the daily lives of Americans, concerns about how Internet service providers manage their networks have arisen. Responding to these concerns and recognizing the importance of maintaining the open and competitive nature of the Internet, the FCC has taken incremental steps to regulate network management practices. Perhaps the most significant of these steps was its August 2008 Memorandum Decision and Order in which the FCC condemned Comcast Corporation's network management practices as "discriminatory and arbitrary." In that Order, the FCC required that Comcast (1) adopt new practices that complied with …


Jurisdictional Discovery In United States Federal Courts, S. I. Strong Mar 2010

Jurisdictional Discovery In United States Federal Courts, S. I. Strong

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


National Jurisdiction And Global Business Networks (Earl A. Snyder Lecture In International Law), Hannah Buxbaum Jan 2010

National Jurisdiction And Global Business Networks (Earl A. Snyder Lecture In International Law), Hannah Buxbaum

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Earl A. Snyder Lecture in International Law, November 1, 2007, Lauterpacht Centre for International Research, University of Cambridge.


Federal Preemption: A Roadmap For The Application Of Tribal Law In State Courts, Jackie Gardina Jan 2010

Federal Preemption: A Roadmap For The Application Of Tribal Law In State Courts, Jackie Gardina

American Indian Law Review

This article contends that state courts are not necessarily free to apply state law when the courts are exercising concurrent adjudicative jurisdiction with tribal courts. Instead, Indian law principles of preemption direct state courts to apply tribal law in certain cases. A guiding principle emerges from the preemption analysis: if a tribe has legislative jurisdication over the dispute, tribal law must ordinarily be applied. In these instances, a state's laws, including its choice-of-law rules, are preempted by federal common law because their application interferes with the federal government's and the tribes' interest in promoting tribal self-government, including the tribes' ability …


Whose Dictionary Controls?: Recent Challenges To The Term "Investment" In Icsid Arbirtration, Joseph M. Boddicker Jan 2010

Whose Dictionary Controls?: Recent Challenges To The Term "Investment" In Icsid Arbirtration, Joseph M. Boddicker

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Sovereign Litigants: Native American Nations In Court, Catherine T. Struve Jan 2010

Sovereign Litigants: Native American Nations In Court, Catherine T. Struve

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.