The ‘Unsettled Paradox’: The Internet, The State, and The Consent of the Governed by DAVID G. POST (Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies)
The settlement of the new domain of cyberspace may enable us to take more seriously than ever before the possibility that individuals in the ordinary course of their affairs can create governmental entities that lack territorial status, a-territorial consensual associations with no geographical referents whatsoever onto which a portion of their ‘sovereignty’ devolves. This paper explores some of the implications this may have for evolving normative theories of statehood and for related questions of the extraterritorial assertion of jurisdiction by existing territorial states.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=943453
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