In mail and wire fraud cases, defendants sometimes argue that they cannot be convicted because the people they deceived were different from the people they cheated out of property. This argument is called the “convergence doctrine,” because the notion is that the deception and the taking of...

The Mode 1 trade in digital services is rapidly expanding, and yet the legal architecture around those services remains relatively thin. States are developing new rules in this policy area, but those efforts are still at an embryonic stage. In this article, we explain how digitalization is...