Posts Tagged ‘ governance ’

Malte Ziewitz, OII – ‘order without law’

  • August 1st, 2009
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Malte Ziewitz started from the proposition that Barlow was at least partially right: there is widespread agreement that the regulatory capacity of law is seriously constrained in cyberspace. Limits of legal regulation include costly or impossible enforcement; jurisdictional problems; fast change and outdated rules; a serious knowledge gap; value clashes; and unintended consequences or regulation. Accordingly, [ READ MORE ]

State of Play VI Governance, legitimacy, and the rule of law

  • June 21st, 2009
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I've just given a 15 minute version of my rule of law argument at the State of Play VI conference in New York. The basic point was that we are still stuck in a false dichotomy between regulation and liberty for virtual communities. I argue that we need to take a closer look at the [ READ MORE ]

Digital constitutionalism the governance of virtual communities, part 2: contract

  • December 10th, 2008
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digital constitutionalism, virtual communities, governance, contract, consent, social contract This post provides a brief outline of the contractual chapter of my PhD thesis. Comments appreciated. See Part 1 for the introductory and theoretical outline. The term 'digital constitutionalism' is used here to denote the essential values which underpin the development of legal principle as it applies to the new technological age. [ READ MORE ]

Digital constitutionalism: the governance of virtual communities, part 3: principles of …

  • October 14th, 2008
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digital constitutionalism, governance, virtual communities, interpretation, public interest, common law This is an outline of the third part of my thesis. Comments appreciated. See Part 1 and Part 2 for more background. Contract law may be the most prominent area of law which affects the governance of virtual communities, but it is by no means alone in this category. The way that [ READ MORE ]

Digital constitutionalism: the governance of virtual communities, part 1

  • October 10th, 2008
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digital constitutionalism, participant rights, virtual communities, virtual worlds, governance, thesis I am finally beginning to write up my thesis. What follows is the first half of the argument I plan to present. This will hopefully provide the structure for identifying the problem and the context of the argument. Comments welcome – what have I missed so far? The internet provides the medium for [ READ MORE ]

Mozelle Thompson on Governance

  • August 18th, 2008
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governance, public, private, End User Licence Agreements, participant rights, contract, property, facebook Photo: Andrew Feinberg, CC BY 2.0. Last week, I had the opportunity to talk to Mozelle Thompson at an event organised by QUT IPKCE and the IIA. Mozelle was a US Federal Trade Commissioner, and is now a legal adviser to Facebook. Mozelle had some interesting things to say about Facebook's privacy policies, [ READ MORE ]

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