Electronic Consumer Contracts in the Conflict of Laws: A Novel

Electronic Consumer Contracts in the Conflict of LawsA NovelThe application of private international law to electronic consumer contracts raises new, complex, and controversial questions. It is new because consumer protection was not a private international law concern until very recently and e-commerce only became an important commercial activity within the last ten years. E-consumer contracts generate original questions which have not been considered under traditional private international law theories. It is complex because it has to deal both with difficulties raised by consumer contracts and the challenges of e-commercave up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource.