Expansion of business onto the Internet crosses national borders and creates uncertainty as to the propriety of jurisdiction by the courts of nations and their internal political units. Analysis of jurisdiction in United States law reveals that traditional rules provide guidance for resolving the question of constitutional jurisdiction in cases that cross geopolitical lines.

This paper examines the validity of the “folk” intuition that endogenous formation of jurisdictions is likely to create stratification of households according to their wealth. More specifically, we examine a simple model of jurisdiction formation, close in spirit to that of Whestoff ([27]), in which a continuum of unequally wealthy households endowed with the same preferences for one public goo...

This article analyzes whether the technical characteristics of the Internet should create a separate legal jurisdiction, and if a separate jurisdiction would be beneficial to the Internet. Jurisdiction is a legal term for the limitation on the ability of a court to determine disputes. Generally, a nation state's jurisdiction only extends to individuals who reside within the country or to the tr...

This paper analyzes the effect of inter-jurisdictional spillovers and congestion of local public services on the segregative properties of endogenous formation of jurisdictions. Households choosing to live at the same place form a jurisdiction, the aim of which is to produce congested local public services, resulting in generate positive spillovers to other jurisdictions. In every jurisdiction,...

In this note we consider a society that partitions itself into disjoint jurisdictions, each choosing a location of its public project and a taxation scheme to finance it. The set of public project is multi-dimensional, and their costs could vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. We impose two principles, egalitarianism, that requires the equalization of the total cost for all agents in the sam...

Late twentieth-century jurisprudence on personal jurisdiction has had to deal with a fundamental challenge to conventional interpretations of both territorial sovereignty and networks or contacts, different than those that arose from traditional re-interpretations of visualized, cartographic space or corporate activity. Globalization makes border crossing a little bit too easy, and thereby call...

The importance of this study is to understand how Indonesian military court asserts its jurisdiction over military members who commit general crimes within the Indonesian military judiciary system in comparison to other countries. This research employs a normative-juridical approach in combination with historical and comparative-juridical approaches. The research specification is analytical-des...