The Internet’s ability to span borders, destroy distance and unite the world’s computer networks into a seamless whole looks wonderfully elegant to engineers, but awfully messy to lawyers. Previously cut-and-dried questions of legal jurisdiction—such as what country a particular transaction took place in – have now become horribly murky. Buy something in a shop, and you are clearly bound by the laws of the country where the shop is physically situated. But make a purchase from the same shop over the Internet from a foreign country, and it is not at all clear whose laws apply. Untangling this legal Gordian knot is the unenviable goal of a proposed treaty called the Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments.
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