Abstract
The following article was presented in the form of a paper by Mr Justice Kirby at a recent Conference on Pacific Co-operation and Information Technology (PACIT 88). The Conference was held in Vancouver, at the Atwater Institute and was funded by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. The article considers the enormous opportunities presented by the information revolution for Pacific rim countries. It concentrates on the legal issues concerning the problem that law is local whereas the technology is pervasive and universal. The basic theme of the article is the call for international meeting points and institutions to develop new basic principles of law. The author argues that the new legal principles will have to be as radically different from past approaches to legal regulation as the new technology is different from the past media of communicating information. The article concludes with an appeal for closer co-operation between Pacific rim countries in work on the legal and social implications of transborder data flows.
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