Traditional legal borders are increasingly contested in the present day. This book explores the nature, implications, and future of legal 'borders' - geographic and intellectual - in the twenty-first century's dramatically changing global context.

Traditional legal borders are increasingly contested in the present day. This book explores the nature, implications, and future of legal 'borders' - geographic and intellectual - in the twenty-first century's dramatically changing global context.

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Thinking beyond Borders: Reflections on Law and Disciplinarity; Robert J. Beck PART II: THE NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AS SUBJECT AND DISCIPLINE 2. The Relative Autonomy of International Law or The Forgotten Politics of Interdisciplinarity; Jan Klabbers 3. Speed Limits and Speed Bumps: The Fictions and Functions of International Law; Kennan Ferguson PART III: LAW, WARFARE, AND TERRITORIAL BORDERS 4. Cyberwar: Building a Normative and Legal-Based Approach for Cyberdeterrence; Catherine Lotrionte 5. Why Are Failed States' Borders Stable against External Predation?; Tanisha Fazal PART IV: LAW AND ART IN THE GLOBAL REALM 6.The Movement of Skilled Labor and Knowledge Across Borders; Shubha Ghosh 7. Wikipedia Art: At the Borders of (Wiki) Law, Lawyering, Lobbying and Power; Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern PART V: LAW AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATE 8. International Law, State Will, and the Standard of Civilization in Japan's Assertion of Sovereign Equality; Douglas Howland 9. Cyberstates?; Peter Sands PART VI: LAW, THE INTERNET, AND COMMUNICATION 10. Ghosts, Vampires and the Global Shaping of Internet Policy; Monroe E. Price 11. Privacy Protection in the Next Digital Decade: 'Trading Up' or a 'Race to the Bottom?'; Michael Zimmer PART VII: LAW IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: A THEORETICAL EXPLORATION 12. Communication, Niklas Luhmann, and the Fragmentation Debate; Friedrich Kratochwil