‘Customary Internet-ional Law’: Creating a Body of Customary Law for Cyberspace. Part 2: Applying Custom as Law to the Internet Infrastructure

The shift in socio-economic transactions from real space to cyberspace through the emergence of electronic communications and digital formats has led to a disjuncture between the law and practices relating to electronic transactions. The speed at which information technology has developed require a...

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Main Author:	CHIK, Warren B.
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Language:	English
Published:	Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
Subjects:	Internet Law Customary law Cyberspace Public international law Private international law
Online Access:	https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/843 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/1842/viewcontent/CustomaryInternet_ionalLawPt2_2010.pdf
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spelling	sg-smu-ink.sol_research-18422020-05-05T13:59:50Z ‘Customary Internet-ional Law’: Creating a Body of Customary Law for Cyberspace. Part 2: Applying Custom as Law to the Internet Infrastructure CHIK, Warren B. The shift in socio-economic transactions from real space to cyberspace through the emergence of electronic communications and digital formats has led to a disjuncture between the law and practices relating to electronic transactions. The speed at which information technology has developed require a faster, more reactive and automatic response from the law that is not currently met by the existing law-making framework. This paper suggests the development of special rules to enable Internet custom to form legal norms to fulfill this objective. In Part 2 of this article, I will construct the customary rules to Internet law-making that are applicable to electronic transactions by adapting customary international law rules; apply the suggested rules for determining customary Internet norms and identify some existing practices that may amount to established norms on the Internet, specifically practices relating to the Internet Infrastructure and Electronic Contracting. 2010-03-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/843 info:doi/10.1016/j.clsr.2010.01.007 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/1842/viewcontent/CustomaryInternet_ionalLawPt2_2010.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Internet Law Customary law Cyberspace Public international law Private international law Internet Law
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description	The shift in socio-economic transactions from real space to cyberspace through the emergence of electronic communications and digital formats has led to a disjuncture between the law and practices relating to electronic transactions. The speed at which information technology has developed require a faster, more reactive and automatic response from the law that is not currently met by the existing law-making framework. This paper suggests the development of special rules to enable Internet custom to form legal norms to fulfill this objective. In Part 2 of this article, I will construct the customary rules to Internet law-making that are applicable to electronic transactions by adapting customary international law rules; apply the suggested rules for determining customary Internet norms and identify some existing practices that may amount to established norms on the Internet, specifically practices relating to the Internet Infrastructure and Electronic Contracting.
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title	‘Customary Internet-ional Law’: Creating a Body of Customary Law for Cyberspace. Part 2: Applying Custom as Law to the Internet Infrastructure
title_short	‘Customary Internet-ional Law’: Creating a Body of Customary Law for Cyberspace. Part 2: Applying Custom as Law to the Internet Infrastructure
title_full	‘Customary Internet-ional Law’: Creating a Body of Customary Law for Cyberspace. Part 2: Applying Custom as Law to the Internet Infrastructure
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publisher	Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
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‘Customary Internet-ional Law’: Creating a Body of Customary Law for Cyberspace. Part 2: Applying Custom as Law to the Internet Infrastructure

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