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46 Brook. J. Int'l L. 1 (2020-2021)
Data Governance and the Elasticity of Sovereignty

handle is hein.journals/bjil46 and id is 9 raw text is: DATA GOVERNANCE AND THE ELASTICITY OF SOVEREIGNTY Roxana Vatanparast* INTRODUCTION: THE MYTH OF TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY .......2 I. TOWARD A THEORY OF SOVEREIGNTY........................................6 A. Mapping the Debates and Critiques.....................................6 B. Decoupling Sovereignty and Territory ...............................10 II. DATA'S CHALLENGE TO TERRITORIALITY ...............................11 A. The Territoriality Principle ................................................12 B . D ata & Territoriality ..........................................................14 III. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DATA TRANSFER REGULATIONS .....................................................................................................16 A. China ...................................................................................16 B. European Union..................................................................20 1. GDPR ................................................................................21 2. E-evidence Rules ..............................................................23 C. United States .......................................................................24 1. The Microsoft Case...........................................................25 2. The CLOUD Act ...............................................................25 IV. RETERRITORIALIZATION ........................................................28 * Research Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS Pro- gram), Harvard Kennedy School; formerly Visiting Researcher, Institute for Global Law & Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School; PhD, University of Turin; JD, UC Hastings College of the Law. A short version of this Article was pre- sented at the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Conference in Ath- ens, Greece in September 2019, and an earlier draft has been published as part of the 2019 ESIL Annual Conference Proceedings Working Paper Series. I would like to thank Alberto Oddenino, as well as my writing workshop group at the 2019 IGLP Scholars Workshop for insightful comments on a prior draft of this Article, and in particular Delphine Dogot, Richard Joyce, Mohammad Shahabuddin, and Hilton Simmet. I thank the excellent editors of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law for their helpful suggestions and edits. I would also like to express my gratitude to the IGLP, STS Program, and University of Turin for institutional support during the writing of this Article. All errors re- main mine. Contact: roxanav41@gmail.com.

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