THE GLOBAL NATURE OF THE INTERNET and the growth of electronic commerce (e-
commerce) raise a plethora of legal issues. While, on the one hand, both consumers and …

The beginning of the 21st century has brought with it explosive growth in a new medium for
trade, namely: e-commerce as made practicable through the continued evolution of the …

The evolution of virtual shopping on the World Wide Web gives rise to new and complex
consumer protection issues. The conventional elements of jurisdiction over consumer …

The bulk of commercial cases resolved by national courts usually concern events that have
occurred exclusively within the forum State's territory. As commerce has expanded onto the …

The Internet is growing faster than all communication technologies that preceded it.'It is a
network of networks that is globally accessible and whose mechanics and protocols are …

Technological innovation on the internet has brought the globalization trend to businesses
and spawned an industry of" ecommerce" that has forever changed the way companies …

While Internet commerce is in its infancy and consumers, at least in Canada, are staying
away in droves, an international debate is underway as to how and to what degree those …

The criteria used in the European Union and in the United States to establish the proper
forum when parties come from diverse jurisdictions are significantly different. The United …

Everywhere you turn today in the business world, and-increasinglyin the legal world, the
focus is on the Internet. The impact of electronic commerce and communications on …

To the contention that the advent of electronic commerce demands a near-complete
jettisoning of existing laws affecting business transactions, the authors of the penetrating …