{"id":195,"date":"2007-01-29T07:11:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T11:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2007\/01\/29\/haeusermann-on-the-laws-virtual-world"},"modified":"2007-01-30T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T20:02:11","slug":"haeusermann-on-the-laws-virtual-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2007\/01\/29\/haeusermann-on-the-laws-virtual-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Haeusermann on the Laws of Virtual Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague and collaborator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fir.unisg.ch\/org\/fir\/web.nsf\/c2d5250e0954edd3c12568e40027f306\/8da3aeed66155355c12570740028ac95?OpenDocument\">Daniel Markus Haeusermann<\/a> has sketched the contours of what he calls a &#8220;tentative taxonomy of legal scholarship and virtual worlds&#8221; over at his Information Law Possum blog. He differentiates among four basic categories that might be subject of inquiry: Offline law as applied to legal issues of MMORPGs of our world; our law as applied to things that happen within virtual worlds; the law of virtual worlds; and the relation between the law of virtual worlds and our law. Read on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dhaeusermann\/2007\/01\/24\/virtual_worlds_taxonomy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I should also mention that Daniel recently published a terrific law review article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajp.ch\/\">Aktuelle Juristische Praxis<\/a> on the possibilities and limitations of a legal approach to the protection of emotions related to faith \u2013 using the example of legal disputes associated with the controversial Mohammed-cartoons. I hope Daniel will soon provide an English summary of the article (which can be understood as a contribution to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/tag\/law-and-emotion\/\">law &amp; emotion scholarship<\/a>) on his <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dhaeusermann\/\">weblog<\/a>.\u00a0 Update: The English summary is now <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dhaeusermann\/2007\/01\/29\/article_261\/\">available<\/a> (thanks, Daniel.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague and collaborator Daniel Markus Haeusermann has sketched the contours of what he calls a &#8220;tentative taxonomy of legal scholarship and virtual worlds&#8221; over at his Information Law Possum blog. He differentiates among four basic categories that might be subject of inquiry: Offline law as applied to legal issues of MMORPGs of our world; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1184,178,662],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-emotion","category-scholarship","category-virtual-worlds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}