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 essays in this book answer: not so. Rather, the resolution to the challenge lies in the combination of existing legal elements from heretofore disparate disciplines, and the creation from these elements of a new field of legal principle and practice – a field that will nonetheless overlap with classical commercial law. Perhaps the most significant feature of this emerging body of law is that it is necessarily transnational, as e-commerce cannot be contained within national borders. Although there is a general consensus that “what holds off line, holds on line”, there are circumstances that give rise to legal issues peculiar to the information technology environment. the years to come.
This book elaborates and updates a staff exchange that took place in 2001 among legal scholars from the Universities of Oxford and Leiden. Its sometimes astonishing, sometimes unsettling insights represent today’s clearest, best-informed thinking on the legal aspects of this all-pervasive feature of contemporary society.
E-commerce is published in cooperation with the E.M. Meijers Institute of Legal Studies of Leiden University Faculty of Law.
Table of contents:
List of abbreviations. Preface. General Introduction; H. Snijders, S. Weatherill. The Regulation of E-commerce under EC Law: The Distribution of Competence between Home States and Host States as a Basis for Managing the Internal Market; S. Weatherill. Electronic Signatures: A Survey of the Directive and the Legislation in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands; R. van Esch. Civil Liability of Internet Providers following the Directive on Electronic Commerce; C. van der Net. Downloading Torts: An English Introduction to On-line Torts; R. Bagshaw. The Moment of Effectiveness of E-mail Notices; H. Snijders. Caveat emptor in Digital Times; H. Nieuwenhuis. The Promise and Peril of Spontaneous Order: The Role of Government in Shaping E-commerce; J. Holmes, B. Morgan. The Database Right and the Spin-off Theory; D. Visser. E-commerce and Private International Law; R. Stevens. Law as Code, Code as Law – General Remarks on Legal Requirements Engineering; H. Franken, A. Schmidt. List of Contributors and Editors. Subject Index.
This book elaborates and updates a staff exchange that took place in 2001 among legal scholars from the Universities of Oxford and Leiden. Its sometimes astonishing, sometimes unsettling insights represent today’s clearest, best-informed thinking on the legal aspects of this all-pervasive feature of contemporary society.
E-commerce is published in cooperation with the E.M. Meijers Institute of Legal Studies of Leiden University Faculty of Law.
Table of contents:
List of abbreviations. Preface. General Introduction; H. Snijders, S. Weatherill. The Regulation of E-commerce under EC Law: The Distribution of Competence between Home States and Host States as a Basis for Managing the Internal Market; S. Weatherill. Electronic Signatures: A Survey of the Directive and the Legislation in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands; R. van Esch. Civil Liability of Internet Providers following the Directive on Electronic Commerce; C. van der Net. Downloading Torts: An English Introduction to On-line Torts; R. Bagshaw. The Moment of Effectiveness of E-mail Notices; H. Snijders. Caveat emptor in Digital Times; H. Nieuwenhuis. The Promise and Peril of Spontaneous Order: The Role of Government in Shaping E-commerce; J. Holmes, B. Morgan. The Database Right and the Spin-off Theory; D. Visser. E-commerce and Private International Law; R. Stevens. Law as Code, Code as Law – General Remarks on Legal Requirements Engineering; H. Franken, A. Schmidt. List of Contributors and Editors. Subject Index.