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Social Networks And Electronic Commerce In China, Jane K. Winn
Social Networks And Electronic Commerce In China, Jane K. Winn
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Communication technologies that make up the emerging global information infrastructure have the power to regulate online behavior. Social networks in Chinese society have survived the growth of formal legal institutions and liberalization of China's economy, but it is not clear whether they can survive the regulatory pressures created by global information technology networks.
The spread of electronic commerce technologies in China may strengthen legal institutions and open local markets to international competition, but is likely to be resisted by all the same interests that resist those changes in other contexts. The Chinese response to the spread of electronic commerce might …
Emerging Issues In Electronic Contracting, Technical Standards And Law Reform, Jane K. Winn
Emerging Issues In Electronic Contracting, Technical Standards And Law Reform, Jane K. Winn
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The explosive growth of electronic commerce transactions in recent years has added fuel to efforts to harmonize international commercial law. Organizations such as the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the Hague Conference on Private International Law are all participating in an emerging global debate concerning the changes that should be made to the form or substance of international commercial law to accommodate innovation in the technology of international trade.
Many of the important legal issues raised by cross-border electronic commerce in the 1970s and 1980s have …