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11 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 41 (2010)
Geolocation and Federalism on the Internet: Cutting Internet Gambling's Gordian Knot

handle is hein.journals/cstlr11 and id is 41 raw text is: The Columbia SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW www.stlr.org GEOLOCATION AND FEDERALISM ON THE INTERNET: CUTTING INTERNET GAMBLING'S GORDIAN KNOT Kevin F. King' Conventional wisdom dictates that the Internet is a medium in which federalism is destined to fail. By virtue of its decentralized design, the Internet naturally resists regulation by a diverse set of government actors. Indeed, courts have reasoned that federalism on the Internet is either technologically impossible or constitutionally prohibited. The emergence of geolocation technologies, which make it possible to quickly, cheaply, and accurately identify an Internet user's location, challenges this dominant understanding and opens the door to new approaches that could radically alter the way electronic commerce is governed. To illustrate this point, this Article explores the ways that such technologies could be used to make Internet gambling regulation more responsive to longstanding federalism principles. As demonstrated below, geolocation technologies have the potential to make Internet gambling law both more effective and more efficient by enabling each state to enforce its own substantive regulations J.D. candidate 2010, Northwestern University School of Law, B.A. Middlebury College 2002. Thanks to Professors James Speta, Steven G. Calabresi, Marshall Shapo, Tonja Jacobi, Len Rubinowitz, and Jacqueline D. Lipton, as well as Ed Brayton, Tom Gaeta, Richard Glover, Kristen Knapp, Jeremy Wilson, Christin Sullivan, and the Staff of the Columiba Science and Technology Law Review for their helpful comments and suggestions. Available at http://wviv.stlr.ore/cite.c tivolume== 1 1&article=2 This work is made available under the Creative Cormmons Attribution -Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License

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