Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World

Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted, as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades, argue Goldsmith and Wu, will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them. While acknowledging the many attractions of the earliest visions of the Internet, the authors describe the new order, and speaking to both its surprising virtues and unavoidable vices. Far from destroying the Internet, the experience of the last decade has lead to a quiet rediscovery of some of the oldest functions and justifications for territorial government. While territorial governments have unavoidable problems, it has proven hard to replace what legitimacy governments have, and harder yet to replace the system of rule of law that controls the unchecked evils of anarchy. While the Net will change some of the ways that territorial states govern, it will not diminish the oldest and most fundamental roles of government and challenges of governance. Well written and filled with fascinating examples, including colorful portraits of many key players in Internet history, this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community.

Computers & Technology

Goldsmith, Jack

Wu, Tim

Networking & Cloud Computing

Oxford University Press

The United States' Defend Forward Cyber Strategy: A Comprehensive Legal Assessment

In the 2010s, America's adversaries conducted numerous damaging cyber operations inside the United States: the Office of Personnel Management breach, attacks on banks, persistent intellectual property theft by China, and the Russian intervention in the 2016 election. The US--possessor of the world's most powerful cyber arsenal--responded in 2018 by unveiling a new Defend Forward strategy. It is a large step in the direction of more aggressive action in cyberspace--albeit for defensive ends. The US has not attempted to hide this shift. To the contrary, it has telegraphed the change. But the telegraphing has taken place at a highly abstract level. Very little is known about precisely what types of operations Defend Forward entails. While the US government has asserted that Defend Forward is consistent with domestic and international law, it has not explained how the new strategy overcomes the perceived legal constraints that previously tempered US responses to cyber intrusions and 
threats. This volume, edited by Jack Goldsmith and featuring a cast of leading scholars in the field, provides an authoritative overview of the origins and operation of Defend Forward, and a comprehensive assessment of its legality. For anyone interested in the future of great power conflict and the cyber strategies that the US is deploying against its adversaries, The United States' Defend Forward Cyber Strategy is an essential read.

Constitutional Law

"The Irishman is great art . . . but it is not, as we know, great history . . . Frank Sheeran . . . surely didn’t kill Hoffa . . . But who pulled the trigger? . . . For some of the real story, and for a great American tale in itself, you want to go to Jack Goldsmith’s book, In Hoffa’s Shadow.” ―Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal "In Hoffa’s Shadow is compulsively readable, deeply affecting, and truly groundbreaking in its re-examination of the Hoffa case . . . a monumental achievement." ―James Rosen, The Wall Street Journal
As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa’s disappearance on behalf of the mob. It was only years later, when Goldsmith was serving as assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration and questioning its misuse of surveillance and other powers, that he began to reconsider his stepfather, and to understand Hoffa’s true legacy. 
In Hoffa’s Shadow tells the moving story of how Goldsmith reunited with the stepfather he’d disowned and then set out to unravel one of the twentieth century’s most persistent mysteries and Chuckie’s role in it. Along the way, Goldsmith explores Hoffa’s rise and fall and why the golden age of blue-collar America came to an end, while also casting new light on the century-old surveillance state, the architects of Hoffa’s disappearance, and the heartrending complexities of love and loyalty.

In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A central player's account of the clash between the rule of law and the necessity of defending America. Jack Goldsmith's duty as head of the Office of Legal Counsel was to advise President Bush what he could and could not do...legally. Goldsmith took the job in October 2003 and began to review the work of his predecessors. Their opinions were the legal framework governing the conduct of the military and intelligence agencies in the war on terror, and he found many―especially those regulating the treatment and interrogation of prisoners―that were deeply flawed. Goldsmith is a conservative lawyer who understands the imperative of averting another 9/11. But his unflinching insistence that we abide by the law put him on a collision course with powerful figures in the administration. Goldsmith's fascinating analysis of parallel legal crises in the Lincoln and Roosevelt administrations shows why Bush's apparent indifference to human rights has damaged his presidency and, perhaps, his standing in history. 8 pages of photographs

The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration

History

Americas

W.W.Norton&Company

The surprising truth behind Barack Obama's decision to continue many of his predecessor's counterterrorism policies.
Conventional wisdom holds that 9/11 sounded the death knell for presidential accountability. In fact, the opposite is true. The novel powers that our post-9/11 commanders in chief assumed―endless detentions, military commissions, state secrets, broad surveillance, and more―are the culmination of a two-century expansion of presidential authority. But these new powers have been met with thousands of barely visible legal and political constraints―enforced by congressional committees, government lawyers, courts, and the media―that have transformed our unprecedentedly powerful presidency into one that is also unprecedentedly accountable.
These constraints are the key to understanding why Obama continued the Bush counterterrorism program, and in this light, the events of the last decade should be seen as a victory, not a failure, of American constitutional government. We have actually preserved the framers’ original idea of a balanced constitution, despite the vast increase in presidential power made necessary by this age of permanent emergency.

Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11

A New York Times Bestseller A central player’s account of the clash between the rule of law and the necessity of defending America. Jack Goldsmith’s duty as head of the Office of Legal Counsel was to advise President Bush on what he could and could not do . . . legally. Immediately after taking the job in October 2003, Goldsmith began to see that the work of his predecessors, whose opinions were the legal framework governing the conduct of the military and intelligence agencies in the war on terror, were deeply flawed.Goldsmith is a conservative lawyer who understands the imperative of averting another 9/11. But his unflinching insistence that we abide by the law put him on a collision course with powerful figures in the administration. In The Terror Presidency he shows how Bush damaged his own presidency and compromised the ability of his successors to respond forcefully in times of crisis.

Highly regarded for supplying a solid analytical framework for a complicated area of the law, CONFLICT OF LAWS: Cases and Materials enters its Sixth Edition as a proven teaching tool.
 The casebook offers: 
<li>a strong balance of current and historical cases and problems that allow students to test the application of case analysis </li>
<li>historical treatment of -- and distinct focus on -- choice of law </li>
<li>an entire chapter devoted to the Internet and conflicts of law arising there </li>
<li>equal coverage of practical and theoretical aspects of conflicts </li>
<li>a chapter on conflicts in international settings Changes for this edition bring the book up to date: 
</li>
<li>older cases in the choice of law parts of the book are replaced with fresher, new ones </li>
<li>careful editing results in a streamlined discussion of personal jurisdiction </li>
<li>a major section on the various choices of law problems concerning same-sex marriage keeps pace with ongoing developments </li>
<li>significant updates to the Internet and international conflicts sections reflect the many new and emerging issues</li>

Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials (Aspen Casebook Series)

Brilmayer, Lea

O'Connor, Erin O'Hara

Legal Theory & Systems

Aspen Law & Business

The police community;: Dimensions of an occupational subculture

Palisades Publishers

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Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World

Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World

The United States' Defend Forward Cyber Strategy: A Comprehensive Legal Assessment

The United States' Defend Forward Cyber Strategy: A Comprehensive Legal Assessment

In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration

Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11

The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration

Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials (Aspen Casebook Series)

The police community;: Dimensions of an occupational subculture