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<p class="gmail-m_-1891420358570993829gmail-m_6741198132782870633gmail-rtecenter"><strong><em>Power, Jurisdiction and Surveillance</em></strong></p>
<h2>Topic and relevance</h2>
<p>The rise of digital technology has major implications for how states
and corporations wield coercive regulatory power through the
transnational administration of justice. Increases in data transmitted
and stored by public and private actors across jurisdictions raise
crucial questions about how individual rights and freedoms can be
protected in an era of seemingly ubiquitous transnational surveillance.
The expanded development and application of domestic and international
law to address behaviour in digital spaces, includes existing law
applied to online activities, and new law to cover a growing range of
internet-specific conduct. A pertinent site of state and corporate power
in the digital realm involves attempts to develop and enforce domestic
laws, especially criminal laws, transnationally. These processes
generally occur outside existing domestic legislative frameworks, and
raises questions about how national sovereignty, extraterritoriality and
state and corporate interests are expanding at the expense of
individual rights and freedoms in digital societies.</p>
<h2>Scope of the special issue</h2>
<p>This special issue considers how the intersections between power,
justice and space challenge existing conceptual and theoretical
categories of contemporary law, that span the fields of criminology,
international relations, digital media and other related disciplines
(see e.g. Johnson & Post, 1996; Goldsmith & Wu, 2006; Brenner,
2009; Hilderbrandt, 2013; DeNardis, 2014). The legal geographies of the
contemporary digital world require rethinking in light of calls for a
more sophisticated and nuanced approach to understanding sovereignty,
jurisdiction and the power to exercise control, yet still protect
individual rights through law in the electronic age (Svantesson, 2013).
These issues raise a host of additional contemporary and historical
questions about the authority exerted by the US over extraterritorial
conduct in various fields including laws relating to crime, intellectual
property, surveillance and national security (see e.g. Schiller, 2011;
Bauman et al., 2014; Boister, 2015).</p>
<p>Legal geography is an emerging multidisciplinary area of inquiry,
concerned with interrogating how law is connected to, and interacts
with, the social and physical worlds (Braverman et al., 2014). By
emphasising how the legitimate exercise of power occurs in and through
space, legal geography is of significant relevance to online
environments. Initial arguments about regulating the transnational
nature of the internet describe the notion of sovereignty becoming
‘softened’ (Culnan & Trinkunas, 2010), while emphasising the need to
move beyond outmoded binary notions of extraterritoriality (Svantesson,
2013; 2014; 2017).</p>
<p>The nation-state can assert jurisdictional reach through the
extraterritorial exercise of power. This is more likely to involve
powerful geopolitical actors such as the United States, which has
recently enacted the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act,
and the European Union, via its General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR). The emergence of large transnational corporations providing
critical virtual and physical infrastructure adds private governance to
this equation, which offers further new dimensions to the rule of law
and also self- or co-regulation (see for e.g. Goldsmith & Wu, 2006;
DeNardis & Hackl, 2015; Suzor, 2018; Brown & Marsden, 2013).
Some of the ways jurisdictional tensions emerge in online spaces – with
corresponding offline effects – occur through policing and law
enforcement practices in the fields of criminal, intellectual property
and corporate law. However, the lack of uniformity of these laws at
domestic levels can lead to complicated and protracted legal disputes
between nations, or amongst different agencies within nations (Palmer
& Warren, 2013). Additional concerns arise regarding whether and how
due process and human rights protections are maintained through the
extraterritorial access to e-evidence (Warren, 2015; Svantesson &
Gerry, 2015), the extradition of alleged offenders (Mann & Warren,
2018; Mann et al., 2018), and new and emerging powers many national law
enforcement agencies now possess to engage extraterritorial surveillance
and offshore government hacking.</p>
<h2>Focus of the papers</h2>
<p>Power and jurisdiction are central to understanding justice and
regulating the contemporary digital environment. For this special issue,
<em>Internet Policy Review</em> invites theoretical, empirical, and
methodological papers from law, criminology, digital humanities,
critical surveillance studies, and related disciplines on the following
issues, which bear relevance to European societies and highlight policy
implications or make a reference to regulatory debates:</p>
<ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li>
<p>How the concept of legal geography can be applied to activities in, and regulation of, digital spaces;</p>
</li><li>
<p>The impact of the expansion in domestic and international cybercrime,
data protection and intellectual property laws on concepts of
jurisdiction, sovereignty and extraterritoriality;</p>
</li><li>
<p>The geopolitical impacts of domestic and international cybercrime
laws such as the Council of Europe’s Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest
Convention), the recent United States CLOUD Act and other lawful access
regimes including EU e-Evidence proposals;</p>
</li><li>
<p>The application of due process requirements in the contemporary policing of digital spaces;</p>
</li><li>
<p>The objectives of justice in the study of private governance in online environments; and</p>
</li><li>
<p>The implications of these transnational developments for current and
future policy and regulation of online activities and spaces.</p>
</li></ul><p>A selection of contributions will be made from extended
abstracts. Authors of papers selected for the special issue will be
invited to present and discuss their paper at a workshop to be held in
Brisbane, Australia, in late 2019 (aligned with the Association of
Internet Researchers annual conference which will be hosted by QUT
Digital Media Research Centre). The workshop will enable exchange of
ideas on these timely issues, provide peer-feedback for the finalisation
of the papers and promote the forthcoming special edition. A
sub-selection of papers will be selected for the special issue based on
regular peer review.</p>
<h2>Special issue editors</h2>
<p>Dr Monique Mann (<a href="mailto:m6.mann@qut.edu.au" target="_blank">m6.mann@qut.edu.au</a>)<br>
Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Technology and Regulation<br>
School of Justice, Faculty of Law<br>
Queensland University of Technology</p>
<p>Dr Angela Daly (<a href="mailto:angela.daly@cuhk.edu.hk" target="_blank">angela.daly@cuhk.edu.hk</a>)<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law</p>
<h2>Important dates</h2>
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<p>Release of the call for papers</p>
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<p>March 2019</p>
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<p>Deadline for expression of interest and abstract submissions (500 word abstracts)</p>
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<p>26th April 2019</p>
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<p>Invitation to submit full text submissions</p>
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<p>May 2019</p>
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<p>Full text submissions deadline</p>
<p>All details on text submissions can be found under <a href="http://policyreview.info/authors" target="_blank">http://policyreview.info/authors</a></p>
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<p>August 2019</p>
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<p>Peer review process</p>
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<p>September 2019</p>
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<p>Workshop in Brisbane</p>
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<p>1st of October 2019 (attendance is not compulsory)</p>
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<p>Resubmission of papers following review</p>
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<p>January 2020</p>
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<p>Preparation for publication</p>
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<p>February 2020</p>
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<p>Publication</p>
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<p>March 2020</p>
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</tr></tbody></table><h2>References</h2>
<p>Bauman, Z., Bigo, D., Esteves, P., Guild, E., Jabri, V., Lyon, D. and
Walker, R.B.J. (2014). After Snowden: Rethinking the impact of
surveillance. <em>International Political Sociology, 8</em>(2), 121-144. Doi: 10.1111/ips.12048.</p>
<p>Boister, N. (2015). Further reflections on the concept of transnational criminal law. <em>Transnational Legal Theory, 6</em>(1), 9-30.</p>
<p>Braverman, I., Blomley, N., Delaney, D., & Kedar, A. (2014). <em>The expanding spaces of law: A timely legal geography</em>. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. </p>
<p>Brenner, S. W. (2009). <em>Cyberthreats: The emerging fault lines of the nation state</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</p>
<p>Brown, I., & Marsden, C. T. (2013). <em>Good governance and better regulation in the information age</em>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.</p>
<p>Clunan, A., & Trinkunas, H. (Eds.) (2010). <em>Ungoverned spaces: Alternatives to state authority in an era of softened sovereignty</em>. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.</p>
<p>DeNardis, L. (2014). <em>The global war for internet governance</em>. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.</p>
<p>DeNardis, L. & Hackl, A. M. (2015). Internet governance by social media platforms. <em>Telecommunication Policy, 39</em>, 761-770.</p>
<p>Goldsmith, J. & Wu, T. (2006). <em>Who controls the internet: Illusions of a borderless world</em>. New York, Oxford University Press.</p>
<p>Hilderbrandt, M. (2013). Extraterritorial jurisdiction to enforce in cyberspace: Bodin, Schmitt, Grotius in cyberspace, <em>University of Toronto Law Journal, 63</em>, 196-224.</p>
<p>Johnson, D. & Post, D. (1996). Law and borders: The rise of law in cyberspace, <em>Stanford Law Review, 48</em>(5), 1367-1402.</p>
<p>Mann, M. & Warren, I. (2018). The digital and legal divide: Silk
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<p>Mann, M., Warren, I. & Kennedy, S. (2018). The legal geographies
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<p>Palmer, D. and Warren, I. (2013). Global policing and the case of Kim Dotcom. <em>International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2</em>(3), 105-119.</p>
<p>Schiller, D. (2011). Special commentary: Geopolitical-economic conflict and network infrastructures. <em>Chinese Journal of Communication, 4</em>(1), 90-107.</p>
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<p>Svantesson, D. (2014). Sovereignty in international law – how the internet (maybe) changed everything, but not for long. <em>Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology, 8</em>(1), 137-155.</p>
<p>Svantesson, D., & Gerry, S. (2015). Access to extraterritorial evidence: The Microsoft cloud case and beyond. <em>Computer Law & Security Review, 31</em>, 478-489.</p>
<p>Svantesson, D. (2017). <em>Solving the internet jurisdiction puzzle</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</p>
<p>Warren, I. (2015). Surveillance, criminal law and sovereignty, <em>Surveillance & Society, 13</em>(2), 300-305.</p></div>
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