We've spent a bunch of time this semester talking about the role of law
in regulating Internet-mediated activity: whether, as an institutional
matter, government mechanisms are nimble enough to be able to regulate
Internet activity effectively; when governments should be deemed to
have jurisdiction over Internet actors; what tools governments might
have for effective regulation. The following three articles (two
from 1996-97, when law academics were just beginning to write about the
Internet, and one from 2004) reveal different approaches to those
questions. Read them (you'll have to click a "download" icon for
the Reidenberg piece), and post a blog entry explaining Where We Go
From Here.