Digitalization is the megatrend of the early 21st century. Historically, much of digital innovation has originated in clusters around major US universities, most notably in Silicon Valley. Consequently, US internet law and policy had outsized influence and global impact. Yet, in current changing times, the emerging ‘digital law‘ will likely look more amorphous. This first...
Tag: <span>Thomas Streinz</span>
Re-constituting Global Cyber-Law
At least since the early 1990s there has been a spirited ‘cyberlaw‘ debate, which led to important insights about governance, regulation, and law in the digital era. But existing cyberlaw scholarship neglects, somewhat curiously, the Internet‘s inherently global aspiration and the corresponding need to develop legal mechanisms to keep key institutions of global internet governance...
The Ordering Power of Digital Infrastructures and Their Legal Regulation
Physical and informational infrastructures are increasingly enmeshed with digital infrastructures, associated flows of data and analytics, and new forms of digital power, competition, and control. Enhanced digitalization and connectivity of infrastructures can change the ways infrastructures regulate and how law might regulate infrastructures. Digital infrastructures themselves have major regulatory effects that have long been conceptualized...