Online marketplaces have transformed how we shop, travel, and interact with the world. Yet, their unique innovations also present a panoply of challenges for communities and states. Surprisingly, federal laws are chief among those challenges despite the fact that online marketplaces facilitate...

The Newzbin cases mark a clear shift in the responsibility that European based entities must take in relation to the protections of intellectual property rights. Previously the burden of protecting intellectual property rights was placed primarily on the rights holder. Today however, legislative...

The vast majority of business communications exchanged through out the world do not make use of any authentication or signature technology. This is because, in the day to day workings of a business, companies are generally satisfied with exchanging messages by email without the need of...

The use of electronic commerce in international trade has grown exponentially in the last few years. However, to date few legal instruments have harmonized the law in relation to electronic communications. In response to this gap, UNCITRAL initiated the Convention on the Use of Electronic...

On 23 November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a new draft convention on the use of electronic communications in international contracting, known as the Draft Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts. The Draft Convention, in a similar...