Monday, January 19, 2004

This is the title and summary for my proposed research mid-term paper for LAWS4204:

Title: The legal relationships of cyberspace entities involved in ecommerce exchange.


This paper examines entities involved in the ecommerce environment of exchange of goods and services over the Internet using a model for cyberstudies proposed by ethnographer David Hakken. Using this model as a descriptive framework the entities are examined for their legal relationships to each other at the scales of measure suggested by Hakken's model. Where possible cases and statutes establishing law in the ecommerce environment, are shown to apply to the entities and their relations between each other. Where law has not been established between the entities or over the scale of analysis provided by the model, a general discussion of possible legal outcomes is attempted.

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