There is order on the internet, but how has this order emerged and what challenges will threaten and shape its future? This study shows how a legitimate order of norms has emerged online, through both national and international legal systems.

Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann is research program leader at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institut, Hamburg, and Privatdozent for International Law, Internet Law and Legal Theory at the Institute for Public Law at the University of Frankfurt.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Foundations of Online Order


• 3: Law and Governance of the Internet


• 4: Normative Disorder on the Internet


• 5: Theorizing Order(s) on the Internet


• 6: The Normative Order of the Internet


• 7: The Normative Order of the Internet in National Legal Orders


• 8: Conclusions