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Full-Text Articles in Law
The Threat Of Long-Arm Jurisdiction To Electronic Commerce, Robert J. Aalberts, Anthony M. Townsend, Michael E. Whitman
The Threat Of Long-Arm Jurisdiction To Electronic Commerce, Robert J. Aalberts, Anthony M. Townsend, Michael E. Whitman
Faculty and Research Publications
Unfortunately for those whose businesses rely on the Internet, an increasing amount of legal conflict is also arising in reaction to this new business medium. As attorneys and the courts attempt to sort out the Internet’s legal status quo, both are considering such pressing substantive issues as electronic contracts, privacy, trademark, copyright, defamation, computer crimes, censorship, and taxation. It is imperative that information system professionals become aware of how evolving Internet law will affect the medium they are charged with administrating. An informed IS community is also much more capable of mounting legal and political challenges to law that might …
Cyberlaundering: The Risks, The Responses, Sarah N. Welling, Andy G. Rickman
Cyberlaundering: The Risks, The Responses, Sarah N. Welling, Andy G. Rickman
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This Article discusses the potential use of electronic cash for money laundering and possible government responses to the problem. Parts I and II provide an overview of electronic cash. Part III explores the effects that electronic cash can have on money laundering. Part IV explains through a series of hypotheticals how "cyberlaundering" can occur. Part V analyzes the federal government's response to the threat of money laundering with electronic cash. Part VI concludes the Article with suggestions.
Sovereign Indignity? Values, Borders And The Internet: A Case Study, Eric Easton
Sovereign Indignity? Values, Borders And The Internet: A Case Study, Eric Easton
All Faculty Scholarship
This article focuses on the publication ban issued by a Canadian court in a notorious murder trial, and the popular reaction to the publication ban, as a case study of the new global communications environment. Part I reconstructs the factual circumstances that provoked the ban, as well as the responses of the media, the legal establishment, and the public. Part II examines the ban itself, the constitutional challenge mounted by the media, and the landmark Dagenais decision. Part III reflects on the meaning of the entire episode for law, journalism, and national sovereignty.
The Dagenais decision demonstrates the continued independence …
Study Of Electronic Cash: Its Impact On The Economy And Society, And Its Future, Sanjana Prasad
Study Of Electronic Cash: Its Impact On The Economy And Society, And Its Future, Sanjana Prasad
LLM Theses and Essays
Technological advancement has introduced an electronic method for the payment for goods and services. With these advancements and the growth of the internet, the market-place of the world has become one universe without borders. This paper examines the various methods of electronic payment for goods and services and the domestic and international laws that govern their operations. The paper explores concerns about money laundering, counterfeiting, internet security, cyber scams in electronic cash as well as proffered security solutions to these problems. The paper concludes with the proposition that electronic cash in the form of cards (ATM) are more accessible to …
Logos, Links, And Lending: Towards Standardized Privacy And Use Policies For Banking Web Sites, Walter Effross
Logos, Links, And Lending: Towards Standardized Privacy And Use Policies For Banking Web Sites, Walter Effross
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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The Empire Strikes Back, A. Michael Froomkin
Megan’S Law And The Protection Of The Child In The On-Line Age, Nadine Strossen
Megan’S Law And The Protection Of The Child In The On-Line Age, Nadine Strossen
Articles & Chapters
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Fencing Cyberspace: Drawing Borders In A Virtual World, Maureen A. O'Rourke
Fencing Cyberspace: Drawing Borders In A Virtual World, Maureen A. O'Rourke
Faculty Scholarship
In the last few years, the Internet has increasingly become a source of information even for the historically computer illiterate. The growing popularity of the Internet has been driven in large part by the World Wide Web (web). The web is a system that facilitates use of the Internet by helping users sort through the great mass of information available on it. The web uses software that allows one document to link to and access another, and so on, despite the fact that the documents may reside on different machines in physically remote locations. The dispersion of data that is …
Withdrawal Of The Reference: Rights, Rules, And Remedies For Unwelcomed Web-Linking, Walter Effross
Withdrawal Of The Reference: Rights, Rules, And Remedies For Unwelcomed Web-Linking, Walter Effross
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Yesterday Once More: Skeptics, Scribes And The Demise Of Law Reviews, Bernard J. Hibbitts
Yesterday Once More: Skeptics, Scribes And The Demise Of Law Reviews, Bernard J. Hibbitts
Articles
This article responds to a series of commentaries on my 1996 Web-posted article Last Writes? Re-assessing the Law Review in the Age of Cyberspace (reprinted in 71 New York University Law Review 615 (1996)) collected in a Special Issue of the Akron Law Review (Volume 30, Number 2, Winter 1996). Last Writes? argued that the development of Internet technology allows and should encourage legal scholars to move away from traditional law review publication - with all of its well-publicized problems - towards a “self-publishing” system in which articles uploaded to the Internet by their scholarly authors could be archived centrally …
Cyberdoctors: The Virtual Housecall--The Actual Practice Of Medicine On The Internet Is Here; Is It A Telemedical Accident Waiting To Happen?, Barbara Tyler
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This Article explores some of the historical background and uses of the computer in the education and support of patients as well as some current World-Wide Web sites available to educate consumers and physicians. While professionals in the field of health are concerned about the sudden proliferation of over 10,000 Internet web sites devoted to health and medical information, the existence of these sites points out that people are intrigued by medical information. The very strength of the Internet lies in the ability of users to freely express their views on any topic, including health care. Also, this Article focuses …
Internet Solutions To Consumer Protection Problems, Gregory E. Maggs
Internet Solutions To Consumer Protection Problems, Gregory E. Maggs
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This Article claims that the Internet may provide consumers with new kinds of protection in buying goods and services and new powers in resolving disputes. The Internet achieves these results by reducing the cost of communication.
The First Amendment, Children, The Internet, And America's Public Libraries, Fred H. Cate
The First Amendment, Children, The Internet, And America's Public Libraries, Fred H. Cate
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Copyright On The Internet: A Comparison Of U.S. And E.C. Protection, Erik Daems
Copyright On The Internet: A Comparison Of U.S. And E.C. Protection, Erik Daems
LLM Theses and Essays
The advancement in technology, the information super highway and the internet have threatened the intellectual property of copyright owners. There is now, a relative ease in the copying, reproduction and transmission of copyrighted work through digitization. This thesis explores the legal systems of the United States, and the European Community, and their proposals towards adequate protection of works from copyright infringement. The thesis examines the competing interests of the copyright owner, the rights of users of the internet, and the role of the legislators in the United States and the European Community in balancing and protecting these interests.