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Full-Text Articles in Law
Internet Jurisdiction: Using Content Delivery Networks To Ascertain Intention, Patrick Lin
Internet Jurisdiction: Using Content Delivery Networks To Ascertain Intention, Patrick Lin
LL.M. Essays & Theses
Specific jurisdiction in civil litigation centers on the rather general,yet immutable, concept of intention. Although the word “intention” does not surface prominently in the personal jurisdiction case law, it is clearly intrinsic to the concept of “purposeful availment”. On the Internet, however, intention is hard to ascertain: how does a court, for example, determine whether the defendant intended that its website, application, or advertisement within a mobile application should end up in the forum state? In answering such a question, courts have historically used one of two approaches to establish intent: (i) a targeting test or (ii) a degree of …
Dispute Resolution In Pandemic Circumstances, George A. Bermann
Dispute Resolution In Pandemic Circumstances, George A. Bermann
Faculty Scholarship
The peaceful resolution of disputes is among the most important earmarks of a regime attached to the rule of law. Even in countries in which, for one reason or another, courts do not work especially well, civil peace is of paramount importance. The absence of effective institutions for the administration of justice between and among private parties would spell a high degree of social disorder.
Even in the absence of a crisis such as we are experiencing, justice systems face a number of challenges in this day and age. Does a jurisdiction have a sufficient number of persons qualified to …