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Internet Access Rights: A Brief History And Intellectual Origins, Jonathon Penney Jan 2011

Internet Access Rights: A Brief History And Intellectual Origins, Jonathon Penney

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If there is anything we have learned from recent protest movements around the world, and the heavy-handed government efforts to block, censor, suspend, and manipulate Internet connectivity, it is that access to the Internet, and its content, is anything but certain, especially when governments feel threatened. Despite these hard truths, the notion that people have a "right" to Internet access gained high-profile international recognition last year. In a report to the United Nations General Assembly in early 2011, Frank La Rue, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, held that Internet access should be recognized as a "human right". …


Toward A Geopolitics Of The History Of International Law In The Supreme Court – Remarks By Lori F. Damrosch, Lori Fisler Damrosch Jan 2011

Toward A Geopolitics Of The History Of International Law In The Supreme Court – Remarks By Lori F. Damrosch, Lori Fisler Damrosch

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I am pleased to have been one of the contributors to the forthcoming volume that provides the occasion for the present panel.' David Sloss and his co-editors, William Dodge and Michael Ramsey, deserve congratulations for coming up with a concept for a much-needed research project, for assembling a group of scholars from different disciplines, for organizing an authors' conference that was a model of collaborative interaction, and for exemplary editing of the papers. The volume examines an astounding number of cases involving international law at the Supreme Court and should become an indispensable reference for lawyers, scholars, and judges. The …