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Order Supported By Law: The Enforcement Of Rules In Online Communities, Nicolas Suzor

Mercer Law Review

As online social spaces grow in importance, the complex relationship between users and the private providers of the platforms continues to raise increasingly difficult questions about legitimacy in online governance. This Article examines two issues that go to the core of legitimate governance in online communities: (1) how are rules enforced and punishments imposed, and (2) how should the law support legitimate governance and protect participants from the illegitimate exercise of power? Because the rules of online communities are generally backed by contractual terms of service, the imposition of punishment for the breach of internal rules exists in a difficult …

Choice Of Law After The Currie Revolution: What Role For The Needs Of The Interstate And International Systems?', Gary J. Simson

Mercer Law Review

Mercer University School of Law, which dates back to 1873, has had many distinguished graduates in its long history. In the realm of legal scholarship, however, one graduate-Brainerd Currie-unquestionably stands alone above them all. In the course of an academic career that began in 1935 with two years at his alma mater and included substantially longer stints on the law faculties at Duke and the University of Chicago, Currie transformed through his scholarship the field of conflict of laws. ...

My project in this Article concerns "choice of law"-that branch or subset of the field of conflict of laws that …