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Post, David G. --- "The Challenge(s) of Cyberlaw" [2012] ELECD 688; in Pager, A. Sean; Candeub, Adam (eds), "Transnational Culture in the Internet Age" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Transnational Culture in the Internet Age

Editor(s): Pager, A. Sean; Candeub, Adam

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857931337

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: The Challenge(s) of Cyberlaw

Author(s): Post, David G.

Number of pages: 13

Extract:

1. The challenge(s) of cyberlaw1
David G. Post

1.1 INTRODUCTION

Many years ago, when I was a practicing physical anthropologist, I spent
a couple of years watching and studying a group of yellow baboons in
the Amboseli National Park in Kenya. My research was focused on the
baboons' feeding and ranging behavior: what they ate, where they went
to find the right food, how they decided to go one place rather than
another, how they knew which food was "right" and which "wrong," and,
ultimately, whether there was any demonstrable relationship between the
various things they ate and their survival and reproduction. I was very for-
tunate to be taken by a group of scientists from the University of Chicago
who had, several years before, set up a research station in the park,
one that they were hoping (successfully, as it turned out) to continue to
operate for purposes of long-term study of this baboon population. Very
wet behind the ears, I went to join them for my first summer in the field,
and one of them, a fellow by the name of Glenn Hausfater, was assigned
the task of orienting me, of helping me get my bearings in a new and very
strange environment. I ended up spending the first three or four weeks that
I was there just following Glenn around as he did his work. Glenn was
studying "dominance" relationships ­ basically, who had sex with whom,
when, how often, and how that did, or ...