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Book Review Rethinking The Jurisprudence Of Cyberspace, David Cowan
Book Review Rethinking The Jurisprudence Of Cyberspace, David Cowan
Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
It is a common claim that law is always catching up with technology. This is not entirely fair. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation1 (GDPR) could be viewed as a case of technology having to catch up to the law. That said, clearly there are challenges in law and in the legal profession, both in terms of how the law can adapt to changes in the digital world and the disruption of the legal profession. On the former point, there are perhaps three broad schools of thought: existing law is sufficient for adapting to new technological challenges, as it …
War In The Expanse: The Metaphysics Of Cyberspace, Roy Balleste
War In The Expanse: The Metaphysics Of Cyberspace, Roy Balleste
Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
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Understanding The New Virtualist Paradigm, Jonathon Penney
Understanding The New Virtualist Paradigm, Jonathon Penney
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
This article discusses the central ideas within an emerging body of cyberlaw scholarship I have elsewhere called the "New Virtualism". We now know that the original "virtualists"- those first generation cyberlaw scholars who believed virtual worlds and spaces were immune to corporate and state control - were wrong; these days, such state and corporate interests are ubiquitous in cyberspace and the Internet. But is this it? Is there not anything else we can learn about cyberlaw from the virtualists and their utopian dreams? I think so. In fact, the New Virtualist paradigm of cyberlaw scholarship draws on the insights of …