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...

European participation in controversial aspects of the ‘war on terror’ has transformed the question of the extraterritorial scope of the European Convention on Human Rights from abstract doctrine into a question with singularly pressing political and legal ramifications.doctrine into a question with singularly pressing political and legal ramifications. Yet the European Court of Human Rights ha...

In the annals of federal-state relations, the Great Lakes are unique. Their waters variously constitute navigable waterways, state boundaries, an international boundary, and most important for our purposes, "the high seas." 1 The federal government and adjoining states assert concurrent criminal jurisdiction over offenses committed on Great Lakes waters• As one might expect, the legal fiction o...