International Law and the Internet

political disputes of governments on internet governance and international law

the variety of issues posed by the internet today cannot be easily neglected by jurists and politicians. these are problems that the international community has no other way but to find appropriate solutions to. the first and most important issue faced in relation to the internet, is the problem of internet governance. the internet is currently managed by the icann, an american company and the ...

The Internet and the Law

In the last few years, the Internet has been changing the face of society in new and unexpected ways, and the legal system has been attempting to adjust to these changes. The major problem has been in trying to apply a legal code grounded in paradigms from two centuries ago to a society where many of those paradigms no longer apply. Some of the issues which must be addressed include: online voi...

Zipf's law and the Internet

Zipf's law governs many features of the Internet. Observations of Zipf distributions, while interesting in and of themselves, have strong implications for the design and function of the Internet. The connectivity of Internet routers influences the robustness of the network while the distribution in the number of email contacts affects the spread of email viruses. Even web caching strategies are...

The Theoretical Foundations of Jus Cogens in International Law

International Law has it's Constituent elements (legal systems, regimes and collections of rules); Those have  interrelations from which legal networks are created. Having this in mind,  the question is whether these Constituent elements only have horizental nexus or are ordered by means of factors which unified them in a vertical manner and because of that International Law is named legal orde...

International Law and the Future