Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2001
ISSN
0270-5192
Publisher
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Language
En-US
Abstract
The Internet transcends boundaries and time, reduces and shifts the cost of receiving and disseminating information. It poses unusual pressures of change on the common law. Internet jurisprudence demonstrates the vitality of the common law, yet highlighted its limitations. The Article describes how the common law addresses Internet issues and the relationship of judicial cases and congressional actions. The Article praises common law system of "muddling through," evolving piecemeal, addressing particular conflicts, not always uniformly nor predictably. This is lawmaking for the risk-averse, reducing the risk and cost of correcting big mistakes. The price: higher learning costs and fewer clear, bright-line and predictable laws. It is worth it.
Recommended Citation
Tamar Frankel,
The Delaware Business Trust Act Failure as the New Corporate Law
,
in
23
Cardozo Law Review
325
(2001).
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