Die Beiträge wurden zuerst auf einem Symposium im Juni 1999 in Woods Hole vorgestellt, das vom DAAK, dem Computer Sciences and Telecommunication Board des U. S. National Research Council sowie der Max-Planck-Projektgruppe Recht der Gemeinschaftsgüter unterstützt wurde. Inhalt: Bernd Holznagel: Responsibility for Harmful and Illegal Content as well as Free Speech on the Internet in the United States of America and Germany (9-42); Herbert Burkert: Privacy-Data Protection - A German/European Perspective (43-69); Robert Gellman: Privacy and Harmonization (71-81); Joachim Wieland: Freedom of Information (83-104); Jacques Arlandis: The Clerk, the Merchant and the Politician (105-117); Jeffrey Abramson: Democracy and Global Communications (119-130); Hans-Heinrich Trute: The Impact of Global Networks on Political Institutions and Democracy (131-154); Tommy Tranvik / Michael Thompson / Per Selle: Doing Technology (and Democracy) the Pack-Donkey's Way: The Technomorphic Approach to ICT Policy (155-195); Jack Goldsmith: The Internet, Conflicts of Regulation, and International Harmonization (197-207); Wolf Osthaus: Local Values, Global Networks and the Return of Private Law - On the function of Civil Law and Private International Law in Cyberspace (209-235); Klaus W. Grewlich: Conflict and good Governance in "Cyberspace" - Multi-level and Multi-actor Constitutionalisation (237-264).