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This article surveys recent developments in domestic U.S. law relating to key issues in Internet (or Cyber) Law. Rapid technological advances have posed serious challenges to traditional legal doctrines and approaches relating to (for example) fundamental issues of privacy, freedom of speech and expression, and protection against unwarranted governmental intrusion. How has the law responded to these key challenges? Since the United States lacks a comprehensive legislative structure addressing these issues, most of the recent developments have come in the form of judicial decisions. ; Este artículo analiza los desarrollos recientes en la legislación interna de los EE.UU. relacionados con cuestiones clave en el Derecho de la Internet (o Cyberlaw). Los rápidos avances tecnológicos han planteado serios desafíos a las doctrinas y enfoques legales tradicionales relacionados (por ejemplo) con cuestiones fundamentales sobre privacidad, libertad de expresión, y la protección contra la intromisión gubernamental injustificada. ¿Cómo ha respondido la ley a estos desafíos clave? Dado que Estados Unidos carece de una estructura legislativa integral que aborde estos temas, la mayoría de los recientes desarrollos se han presentado en forma de decisiones judiciales.

When does an agreement to arbitrate a commercial dispute constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity? This question has assumed increasing importance over the past decades in direct proportion to the extent that sovereign states and their agencies, entities, and instrumentalities have agreed to arbitrate their disputes with investors and under commercial contracts. On August 19, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit considered this issue in the context of a petition to confirm an arbitral award, when it ruled that by becoming a party to the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID Convention), Argentina had waived its sovereign immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA).