Subjects 2008
Electronic Commerce Law 730802
- Credited Courses: Graduate Diploma in Corporations and Securities Law 538; Graduate Diploma in e-Business Law 531; Master of Commercial Law 504; Master of Laws by Coursework (LLM) 502
Objectives
A candidate who has successfully completed the subject should:
- Have an understanding of the technical basis for electronic commerce and transactions
- Have a good understanding of the policy issues posed by e-commerce systems for government, business, consumers and citizens in conducting their transactions electronically
- Be familiar with the major law reform issues in facilitating e-commerce and regulating the technological infrastructure of e-commerce in Australia and overseas
- Understand the principal trans-border legal issues in electronic transactions and the methods for dealing with jurisdictional problems
- Be familiar with the issues in applying domestic regulation to electronic transactions
- Have developed skills of legal research and oral presentation of legal policy, rules and argument in an interactive seminar context.
Syllabus
Principal topics will include:
- Introduction to electronic commerce and its technologies
- Adapting existing laws to electronic commerce
- Electronic contracts: Formation and enforcement
- Identity management, authentication and standards
- Consumer protection issues
- Problems of extra-territoriality and jurisdiction
- Information privacy and security
- Advertising, unfair competition and trade marks
- Electronic payments law.
