An Analysis of Jurisdiction Rules for Electronic Consumer Contracts PDF Download

Author: Lorna Elizabeth Gillies
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Languages : en
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine European and United States jurisdiction rules for consumer contracts where the consumer and the seller who contract with each other over the Internet via the World Wide Web are in different jurisdictions. The thesis will demonstrate that despite recent adaptation in both jurisdictions, existing rules are not conducive to consumer contracts entered into by means of electronic commerce (hereafter electronic consumer contracts). This thesis will argue that both United Kingdom and United States jurisdiction rules for such contracts should be further amended and harmonised to enable consumers to sue in their own jurisdiction when foreign businesses intended to target them via active or interactive web sites. The aim of international private law is premised on a "desire to do justice" to the parties involved in a cross-border dispute. Chapter One will demonstrate that this aim is particularly significant with regard to the role of international private law vis-à-vis the legal regulation of cross-border electronic consumer contract disputes. When a consumer contract is entered into between parties across borders by electronic means and a dispute arises between those parties, the effective application of a certain and predictable jurisdiction rule to determine which jurisdiction will hear the dispute is crucial. Subsequent chapters of this thesis will demonstrate that given the continued inconsistencies in existing jurisdiction rules in the United Kingdom and the United States, further adaptation and harmonisation of jurisdiction rules for electronic consumer contracts is now both necessary and desirable.

Author: Zheng Sophia Tang
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ISBN: 9781474203388
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Languages : en
Pages : 384

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"The second edition of this highly recommended work addresses the interaction between conflict of laws, dispute resolution, electronic commerce and consumer contracts. In addition it identifies specific difficulties that conflicts lawyers and consumer lawyers encounter in electronic commerce and proposes original approaches to balance the conflict of interest between consumers' access to justice and business efficiency. The European Union has played a leading role in this area of law and its initiatives are fully explored. It pays particular attention to the most recent development in collective redress and alternative/online dispute resolution. By adopting multiple research methods, including a comparative study of the EU and US approach; historical analysis of protective conflict of laws; doctrinal analysis of legal provisions and economic analysis of law, it provides the most comprehensive examination of frameworks in cross-border consumer contracts."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author: Lorna E. Gillies
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317145240
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Electronic Commerce and International Private Law examines the maximization of consumer protection via the consumer's jurisdiction and law. It discusses the proposition that a new connecting factor be used to improve the efficiency of juridical protection for consumers who contract with foreign sellers by electronic means and offers recommendations as to how to amend existing jurisdiction and choice of law rules to provide a basis for the consumer to sue in his own jurisdiction and for the law of the consumer's domicile to apply. The book will be a valuable resource for academics, students and practitioners working in the areas of international private law, electronic commerce law and consumer law.

Author: Rita Villanueva Meza
Publisher: Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
ISBN: 9780612954526
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Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Forum selection clauses appear as a mechanism that may provide jurisdictional certainty and predictability to electronic commerce. Nevertheless, those clauses may not be always a satisfactory solution to parties in online contracts because such clauses may not be enforced in certain circumstances. By examining the law of forum selection clauses in Canada and the United States, this thesis discusses the circumstances in which forum selection clauses may not be enforced due to the application of discretionary tests and their inclusion in consumer contracts. This thesis also reviews the enforceability of forum selection clauses in 'clickwrap' and 'browsewrap' contracts in Canadian and American case law. Moreover, this thesis studies whether discretionary tests and non-enforcement of forum selection clauses in online business to consumer transactions favour the development of electronic commerce. Finally, this thesis addresses the enforcement of forum selection clauses within the works of The Hague Conference of Private International Law.

Author: Zheng Sophia Tang
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1782259309
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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The second edition of this highly recommended work addresses the interaction between conflict of laws, dispute resolution, electronic commerce and consumer contracts. In addition it identifies specific difficulties that conflicts lawyers and consumer lawyers encounter in electronic commerce and proposes original approaches to balance the conflict of interest between consumers' access to justice and business efficiency. The European Union has played a leading role in this area of law and its initiatives are fully explored. It pays particular attention to the most recent development in collective redress and alternative/online dispute resolution. By adopting multiple research methods, including a comparative study of the EU and US approach; historical analysis of protective conflict of laws; doctrinal analysis of legal provisions and economic analysis of law, it provides the most comprehensive examination of frameworks in cross-border consumer contracts.

Author: Pedro de Miguel Asensio
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 178811082X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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The ubiquity of the Internet contrasts with the territorial nature of national legal orders. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of jurisdiction, choice of law and enforcement of judgments issues concerning online activities in the areas in which private legal relationships are most affected by the Internet. It provides an in-depth study of EU Law in this particularly dynamic field, with references to major developments in other jurisdictions. Topics comprise information society services, data protection, defamation, copyright, trademarks, unfair competition and contracts, including consumer protection and alternative dispute resolution.

Author: Jane K. Winn
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
ISBN: 0735516480
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2519

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Annotation New edition of a study of the law of electronic commerce, which requires the simultaneous management of business, technology and legal issues. Winn (law, Southern Methodist U.) and Wright (a business lawyer in Dallas) present 21 chapters that discuss introductory material such as business and technologies of e-commerce, getting online, jurisdiction and choice of law issues, and electronic commerce and law practice; contracting; electronic payments and lending; intellectual property rights and rights in data; regulation of e-business markets; and business administration. Presented in a three-ring binder. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590318737
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Author: Zheng Sophia Tang
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 184731533X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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The application of private international law to electronic consumer contracts raises new, complex, and controversial questions. It is new because consumer protection was not a private international law concern until very recently and e-commerce only became an important commercial activity within the last ten years. E-consumer contracts generate original questions which have not been considered under traditional private international law theories. It is complex because it has to deal both with difficulties raised by consumer contracts and the challenges of e-commerce. Reasonable resolutions to consumer contracts may prove inappropriate in e-commerce, while effective approaches to resolving private international law problems in e-commerce may be improper for consumer contracts. It is controversial because it concerns the conflicting interests of consumers and businesses in a fast-moving commercial environment - a fair balance is therefore hard to achieve. Without proper solutions provided by private international law, consumers will not be confident about purchasing online, and businesses will face unreasonable risk and participation costs in e-commerce. Updated and properly designed private international law rules are essential to the further development of e-commerce. This book aims to provide an answer to the urgent requirement for legal certainty, security and justice in e-consumer contracts. It is primarily concerned with existing approaches to jurisdiction and choice of law issues in e-consumer contracts in the European Community and England, but some typical approaches in other jurisdictions are also examined. Based on the analysis and the comparative study of the existing law, the book seeks to provide a proposal as to what the law should be in order to provide certainty to both parties, to provide reasonable protection to consumers, and to promote the development of e-commerce.