Ten years into the internet age, doing business over the Internet still raises questions of personal jurisdiction. Individuals buying and selling over the Internet find themselves hauled into a court a thousand miles away. Businesses are sued for libel across the globe. Foreign hackers face extradition orders calling on them to account for their crimes. Courts around the world have came to radically different jurisdictional conclusions -- even when supposedly applying the same standards. On June 25, this state of affairs was the focus of a high-level panel discussion entitled “You Can’t Sue Me (Here)! Questions of Jurisdiction in a Global Marketplace.” The panel featured the following distinguished speakers: Chandler serves as General Counsel at Cisco Systems, Inc.; Katz is a Partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP; Sobel is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Yahoo, Inc.; and Monahan is the Vice President and Deputy Counsel for Litigation and Intellectual Property at eBay, Inc. Intellectual property expert Paul Goldstein, the Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, moderated the discussion. The event, which attracted a crowd of over 125 people, was sponsored
by the Stanford Law Society of Silicon Valley, the Stanford Center
for E-Commerce of the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology,
and the Churchill Club.
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