Making Laws for Cyberspace

• This book proposes a new model for cyberspace laws focussing on human actions rather than the technology used
• Re-opens the debate as to the value of laws for regulating cyberspace and how best to regulate behaviour
• Provides analysis of and potential solutions to the problem of enforcing the plethora of existing laws regulating cyberspace
• The only text to comprehensively analyse European cyberspace lawmaking

Readership: Academics and postgraduates in the technology law and regulation field as well as practitioners practicing in this area.

Chris Reed, Queen Mary, University of London

Chris Reed is Professor of Electronic Commerce Law at Queen Mary, University of London. He teaches on a number of Queen Mary's LLM courses in the field, which include Computer Law, Electronic Commerce Law, and Cyberspace Law. From 1997-2000, Chris was Joint Chairman of the Society for Computers and Law, and in 1997-8 he acted as Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology. Chris participated as an Expert at the European Commission/Danish Government Copenhagen Hearing on Digital Signatures, represented the UK Government at the Hague Conference on Private International Law, and has been an invited speaker at 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." - Julia Hörnle, International Journal of Law and Technology

"Readers can expect to be confronted with Reed's breadth of knowledge and will no doubt appreciate the creative way in which he weaves legal jurisprudence into existing cyberlaw scholarship. Each chapter is written in a manner which will capture readers' interest. His summary of the challenges and treatment of substantive laws should make good reading for students and academics interested in gaining fresh insights into the nature of law making activity in cyberspace." - Joseph Savirimuthu, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice

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