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
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Description
LLM Specialisations
Recommended Prior Knowledge
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% |