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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:50:45 -0700
From: Robert Cannon <rcannon100@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: CATO Who Rules the Net
Who Rules the Net?
Debating Internet
Jurisdiction and Governance
The Cato Institute s Seventh Annual
TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY CONFERENCE
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Cato Institute F. A. Hayek Auditorium
Washington, D.C.
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7:30 8:00 a.m. Registration
8:00 8:10 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Director of Technology Policy,
Cato Institute
Adam D. Thierer, Director of Telecommunications
Studies, Cato Institute
8:10 8:55 a.m. Opening Keynote Address
Hon. Christopher Cox (R Calif.), Chairman, House
Policy Committee
9:00 10:30 a.m. PANEL 1: "Governance: Debating the
Rise of Legal and Technological Borders on an Open
Internet"
Tim Wu, University of Virginia Law School
David Post, Temple University Law School
Bruce Kobayashi, George Mason University School of Law
Peter Trooboff, Covington & Burling
Gary Jackson, Quova
10:30 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m. PANEL 2: "Who Rules? Current
Clashes and the Future of Online Jurisdiction"
Robert Corn-Revere, Davis Wright Tremaine
Kurt Wimmer, Covington & Burling
Michael Greve, American Enterprise Institute
Jonathan Band, Morrison & Foerster
Marc Pearl, IT Policy Solutions
12:00 12:45 p.m. Luncheon Address
Jeffrey J. Kovar, U. S. Department of State Chief U.
S. Negotiator, Hague Convention, and Assistant Legal
Adviser for Private International Law
12:45 p.m.- Lunch
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About the Conference
Many people have praised the Internet for its
ubiquitous and "borderless" nature and argued that
this global medium is revolutionary. Indeed, the World
Wide Web increasingly challenges traditional concepts
of jurisdiction, governance, and sovereignty. In the
universe of cyberspace there are no passports, and
geography is often treated as a meaningless concept.
But does that mean that traditional concepts of
jurisdiction and governance are obsolete? When legal
disputes arise in cyberspace, or when governments
attempt to apply clashing legal standards or cultural
norms to the Internet, how are such matters to be
adjudicated? The variance in regulatory preferences
from country to country is highlighted by policy
disputes over free speech and libel, privacy,
intellectual property, antitrust policy, and domain
name registration, among other things. Myriad laws and
regulations for "real" space are now being directly
challenged by the rise of the parallel electronic
universe known as cyberspace. Who is responsible for
setting the standards in cyberspace? Is a "UN for the
Internet" or a multinational treaty appropriate? If
not, whose standards should govern cross-border cyber
disputes? Are different standards appropriate for
cyberspace and "real" space? Those nagging questions
are being posed with increasing frequency.
This year's Technology & Society conference marks the
release of the new Cato book Who Rules the Net?
Internet Governance and Jurisdiction. The conference
will explore the newest developments in Internet
jurisdiction and assess the future of public policy
online.
About The Cato Institute
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