Electronic Commerce Law - LAWS8044
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Academic Program must be 9231 or 5231 or 9220 or 5750 or 9200 or 5740 or 9210 or 9230 or 9214 or 5214.
Excluded: JURD7344, LEGT2771, TABL3771, TABL5521, LEGT5421
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Description
This course examines how and to what extent law (and other sources of regulation) controls the mechanisms which facilitate electronic commerce. The course considers the regulation of electronic commerce from the point of view of a relatively broad range of legal topic areas, from concepts of private international law in the assumption of jurisdiction over online transactions, to the regulatory and contractual framework for electronic commerce, to issues such as domain name regulation, online consumer protection, payment systems, e-security and cybercrime. Throughout the course, various themes recur, such as: the role of technology in facilitating electronic transactions and shaping appropriate laws; self-regulatory and co-regulatory models; the emergence of international standards; and problems of jurisdiction and regulatory ‘arbitrage’.
LLM Specialisations
Recommended Prior Knowledge
None
Course Objectives
- To examine the role of technology in facilitating electronic transactions and shaping appropriate laws
- To consider the value of self-regulatory and co-regulatory models in regulating electronic commerce
- To examine the emergence of international standards in ecommerce law
- To consider problems of jurisdiction and regulatory "arbitrage" in electronic commerce law
Main Topics
- Electronic Commerce regulatory structure and sources of law
- Electronic Commerce Jurisdiction 1 - The Hague Convention and other International agreements
- Electronic Commerce Jurisdiction 2 - Case law
- Online contract formation 1 - the Electronic Transactions Act
- Online contract formation 2 - common law and international instruments
- Electronic authentication of individuals, organisations and objects (and their attributes)
- International case study - Ecommerce legal infrastructure in ASEAN
- Online dispute resolution
- Online business conduct - Codes of conduct and regulations
- Cyber-crime
- Online payment systems and transactions
- Security and the determination of liability for unauthorised access and transactions
Assessment
Class participation | 10% | |
Briefing note | 2,500 words | 20% |
Research essay | 5,000 words | 70% |