The Jurisprudence of The Unseen Web: Legal Frameworks on Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse, Deep Web, Decentralized Technologies & Emerging Digital Realities

This 630-page pioneering volume offers a comprehensive legal exploration of the invisible architectures shaping the digital world. Spread across seven meticulously researched chapters, the book examines the intersecting legal, ethical, and regulatory challenges posed by advanced and emerging technologies.

Blending doctrinal clarity with contemporary relevance, the authors navigate the layered structure of the internet, from the Surface Web to the Deep and Dark Web, alongside transformative ecosystems such as Artificial Intelligence, the Metaverse, Blockchain, Digital Currencies, and Decentralized Technologies.

Key themes include:

• Legal implications of AI, machine learning, robotics, and algorithmic governance
• The Metaverse, virtual identities, digital assets, and regulatory gaps
• Cryptocurrencies, blockchain surveillance, tokenization, and financial cybercrime
• Data protection laws, privacy frameworks, and global regulatory comparisons
• Cybercrimes in virtual ecosystems, darknet enforcement, and cyber forensics
• Digital evidence, admissibility standards, and landmark judicial precedents

With inputs from legal theory, policy, constitutional challenges, ethics, and comparative jurisprudence, the book answers pressing questions on governance in a rapidly digitizing world.

Written for law students, academics, practitioners, policymakers, and researchers, this title serves as both a reference book and a forward-looking guide to navigating the unseen but powerful layers of today's and tomorrow's digital legal landscape.

From the Foreword

..a seminal contribution that integrates legal foresight with technological reality, offering a panoramic yet precise perspective on cyber jurisprudence.

- Justice J.J. Munir
Judge, High Court of Judicature at Allahabad

Foreword
Preface
Contents
List of Case Laws
Chapter 1: Internet And Its Branches: A Multi-Layered Digital Framework
Chapter 2: Artificial Intelligence (Ai): Meaning, Nature & Scope
Chapter 3: The Metaverse And Its Evolution
Chapter 4: Digital Currencies In The Cyber World
Chapter 5: Data Privacy And Protection In The Cyber World
Chapter 6: Cyber Crimes In The Digital Age
Chapter 7: Digital Evidence: Meaning, Nature Scope & Admissibility
Annexure - The Information Technology Act, 2000
Bibliography