COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course aims to provide students with an in-depth knowledge on the legal issues surrounding electronic commerce, including business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), and consumer-to-consumer (C2C) forms.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
After completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explore the traditional legal issues surrounding
business in an electronic format, particularly the formal validity of
electronic transactions, security and authentication, contract formation and
electronic payment systems;
- Critically examine the online consumer
protection issues, the impact of online advertising and marketing and online
fraud;
- Challenges and strategies relating to disputes,
such as online dispute resolution and jurisdiction, including the role of the
WTO; and
- Selected contemporary legal topics such as virtual worlds.
COURSE CONTENT
- Traditional legal issues surrounding business in
an electronic format, particularly the formal
- Validity
of electronic transactions
- Security
and authentication,
- Contract
formation and electronic payment systems
- Online consumer protection issues
- Selected contemporary legal topics such as
virtual worlds.
COMPULSORY READING MATERIALS
- R Whish (2009). Competition Law (6th Ed). Lexis Nexis
Butterworths
- Katz A. W. (2012). Foundations of The Economic Approach to Law.
LexisNexis
- Shavell S. (2004). Foundations
of Economic Analysis of Law. Harvard University Press
- OPTIONAL READING MATERIALS
- Polinsky A. M. and
Shavell S. (2007).The Handbook of Law
& Economics. North Holland
- Hovenkamp H., The
Antitrust Enterprise, Harvard University Press, 2005