Con­flicts of law over cross-border di­git­al evid­ence

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Jes­sica Shurson ad­dresses the po­s­i­tion of ser­vice pro­viders ordered to dis­close di­git­al evid­ence in one coun­try while an­oth­er coun­try’s law pro­hib­its dis­clos­ure. As crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tions in­creas­ingly re­quire data stored or con­trolled across bor­ders, states use do­mest­ic in­vest­ig­at­ive meas­ures rather than the mutual legal as­sist­ance treaty pro­cess. The chapter in­tro­duces the book’s ar­gu­ment that the res­ult­ing con­flicts can be re­solved through prin­cipled in­terest bal­an­cing groun­ded in in­ter­na­tion­al law.