Making Laws for Cyberspace

Chris Reed is Professor of Electronic Commerce Law at Queen Mary, University ofLondon. He teaches on a number of Queen Mary's LLM courses in the field, which include ComputerLaw, Electronic Commerce Law, and Cyberspace Law. From 1997-2000, Chris was Joint Chairman ofthe Society for Computers and Law, and in 1997-8 he acted as Specialist Adviser to the House ofLords Select Committee on Science and Technology. Chris participated as an Expert at the EuropeanCommission/Danish Government Copenhagen Hearing on Digital Signatures, represented the UKGovernment at the Hague Conference on Private International Law, and has been an invited speakerat OECD and G8 international conferences.

A clearly structured and well-thought out analysis of effective law-making for cyberspace, which will form the debate on the subject for years to comea must read for anyone interested in how cyberspace should be regulated.

• PART I - CYBERSPACE AS A LAWFUL SPACE ; Introduction ; 1. Command and control ; 2. The route to lawfulness ; PART II - AUTHORITY IN CYBERSPACE ; 3. Extraterritoriality ; 4. Enforcement in cyberspace ; 5. Sources of authority ; 6. Authoritative lawmaking ; PART III - RESPECTWORTHY LAWS ; 7. Cyberspace communities and cyberspace norms ; 8. Three ways to make meaningless law ; 9. Aims and effectiveness ; 10. Mismatch with cyber-reality