Guides: International and Foreign Cyberspace Law Research Guide: Secondary Sources: Treatises & Books

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Getting Started with Secondary Sources

If you are new to international cyberspace law, or are unfamiliar with a particular aspect thereof, start your research with a secondary source. In addition to providing background information, analysis, and commentary, secondary sources can help you to identify relevant primary law materials, such as treaties, national legislation, and case law.

The right-hand column includes a selection of basic introductory resources. Listed below are resources that offer a broad overview of the commercial, legal or security aspects of international cyberspace law. Use the menu displayed to the left to access secondary sources focusing on narrower topics.

Broad Overviews: Commercial Aspects

The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce
Call Number: KZ1268 .C47 2013 Electronic
After thoroughly analyzing the legal challenges of regulating transnational electronic commerce, the author outlines a framework for improving today's rudimentary legal infrastructure, showing how countries can dismantle barriers to trade while still protecting consumer interests.
Law of Electronic Commercial Transactions: Contemporary Issues in the EU, US, and China, 2nd ed.
Call Number: K1005 .W35 2014
This book compares the legislative and regulatory frameworks for e-commerce in the US, the EU, and China, focusing on the legal challenges posed by the growth in cross-border transactions and cloud-based services. It also emphasizes the need to modernize and harmonize laws at the national, regional, and international levels to keep pace with technological innovations.

Broad Overviews: Legal Aspects

Collisions in the Digital Paradigm: Law and Rule-Making in the Internet Age
Call Number: K4240 .H36 2017
This book explores how the technological revolution that produced the new era of digital information is disrupting and transforming the practice of law, which, at its heart, is about the exchange of information between lawyers and their clients.
The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy
Call Number: K783 .P47 2016
The authors describe how the digital marketplace has altered traditional concepts of personal property and ownership. They note that while consumers appreciate the convenience and flexibility of e-books, streaming services, cloud storage, and other licensed digital goods, few of them understand the trade-offs involving user constraints, permanency, and privacy set forth in end-user agreements.
Information, Freedom and Property: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology
Call Number: K564.C6 I544 2016
This collections of essays examines the philosophical, technological, and legal frameworks governing access to information and the organization and control thereof. The authors debate whether it is in the very nature of information to be free or monopolized or both.

Broad Overviews: Security Aspects

Cyber Insecurity: Navigating the Perils of the Next Information Age
Call Number: HV6773 .C9174 2016
This collection of essays highlights sixteen of the most pressing challenges in contemporary cybersecurity. The authors, who include legal scholars, legal practitioners in the public and private sectors, and retired military commanders, also offer recommendations for improving cybersecurity in the future.
Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace
Call Number: KZ6718 .S53 2014
The author takes a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to cyber security, proposing a framework for polycentric, multi-stakeholder governance that incorporates insights from the fields of law, computer science, economics, and international relations as the most effective strategy for managing cyber attacks and enhancing online security.
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
Call Number: QA76.9.A25 S562 2014
The authors describe how the digital revolution has transformed all aspects of human society, including military operations, while at the same time exposing us to new vulnerabilities. They employ a series of anecdotes and case studies to illustrate why it is so difficult to defend against cyberattacks before considering what governments, businesses, and individuals can do to improve cybersecurity.

Basic Introductions

Global Internet Law
Call Number: K564.C6 R87 2016
This hornbook provides a comprehensive, transnational survey of substantive law and procedural rules in this rapidly evloving field. It incorporates relevant treaties and industry standards, along with statutes, regulations, and case law from the U.S. and other jurisdictions.
Global Internet Law in a Nutshell
Call Number: KF390.5.C6 R87 2016
This entry in the popular Nutshell series begins with a brief history of the Internet and competing theories of Internet governance, followed easy-to-digest summaries of substantive legal issues.
Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises
Call Number: KF390.5.C6 S36 2014
This accessible reference work is organized like an encyclopedia, with topical entries of 500 to 5,00 words arranged alphabetically. Complex technical and legal concepts, ranging from to adware and spyware to voluntary collective licenses, are explained concisely in language that is understandable to the non-expert.
The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies
Call Number: HM851 .O985 2013
Each chapter of this interdisciplinary resource analyzes how the rise of global information networks is affecting a particular aspect of society, from communications and economic transactions to personal relationships. It also offers insights into how such networks should be governed and regulated.
Digital Media Law (2nd ed.)
Call Number: KF2750 .P33 2012
The second edition of this wide-ranging survey of media law in the digital era incorporates recent developments in telecommunications and Internet regulation, intellectual property protections, the regulation of obscenity and indecency, the liability of information providers, libel tourism, cyber-stalking, and privacy concerns.
Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace
Call Number: K564.C6 R47 2015 Electronic
This reference book examines how sovereignty, jurisdiction, state responsibility, and other fundamental principles of international law apply to cyberspace. It also explores whether the law of war and international humanitarian law are sufficient to address the threats posed by cyber attacks, cyber espionage, cyber warfare, and cyber terrorism. It concludes by analyzing the cyber security policies of international and regional organizations.

International and Foreign Cyberspace Law Research Guide