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The Glocal Net: Standing On Joel Reidenberg’S Shoulders, Michael Birnhack
The Glocal Net: Standing On Joel Reidenberg’S Shoulders, Michael Birnhack
Fordham Law Review
Information technology and digital networks are global, and information can easily cross borders. Laws, however, are territorial, local, and specific. This is the meeting of the global and the local. Imposing local laws on global technology can result in a conflict, but it may give birth to a new condition, the “glocal net”: the fusion of the global and the local. Under the condition of the glocal net, as a matter of practice, people experience the internet differently in different places around the globe. As an ideal, the glocal net would strive to enable both the global and the local …