ACADEMIA Letters Jurisprudence on Cyber Borders Concept Yassin Abdelkarim Every state has three traditional borders surrounding its territory and the vital regional adjunct areas as well. This geopolitical fact indicates that the state can practice national sovereignty within its boundaries in addition to its rights on the adjunct waters and economic zones. Those borders are protected by authorities like customs ofcers, coast guards, and borders guards’ divisions. Those authorities are sufcient to secure the state against illegal activities. This meaning of the state’s borders is obvious and frmly established in international law. However, the emergence of the internet changed this fact. A modern type of borders appeared with a specifc nature that is overwhelmed by ambiguity and limitlessness. That nature features cyberspace and its borders that requires understanding this new concept to integrate it within the legal system. The idea of cyber borders is debated among theorists since cyber communications are virtual links that cannot have connections with the meaning of the state’s-imposed borders in the real world. 1 Johnson and Post claim that the concept of state sovereignty in the real world should not extend to cyberspace. Cyberspace should have its concepts of sovereignty and borders that should not be afected by the traditional understanding of them. 2 They argue that cyberspace is not a coherent territory limited by a special kind of border. Furthermore, these borders need to have a special nature suitable to cyberspace to control the data fow using virtual technical border control mechanisms. 3 Goldsmith sees that as a limited point of view. He claims that the 1 Jackson Adams and Mohamad Albakajai (2016), ‘Cyberspace: A New Threat to the Sovereignty of the State’, 4 Management Studies 256. 2 David R Johnson and David G Post (1996), ‘Law And Borders–The Rise of Law in Cyberspace, 48 Stanford Law Review 1367, 1368. 3 ibid 1396. Academia Letters, May 2022 Corresponding Author: Yassin Abdelkarim, yassinabdelkarim91@gmail.com Citation: Abdelkarim, Y. (2022). Jurisprudence on Cyber Borders Concept. Academia Letters, Article 5268. 1 ©2022 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0