This question is commonly asked and easily answered: you can’t. That’s right, in practice you can’t ensure that a website will comply with all applicable laws. Why not? To answer this question, you need to appreciate a couple of basic legal points. First, a website may be impacted by laws of many different kinds. Examples […]
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Internet contracts and applicable law
Many contracts, and the vast majority of professionally-drafted contracts, contain what is known as a “choice of law” clause. Choice of law clauses specify the law that will be used to interpret the contract. Choice of law clauses and choice of jurisdiction clauses (sometimes called choice of forum clauses) must be distinguished. Whilst choice of […]
Internet contracts and jurisdiction
Issues of jurisdiction are important to online traders, not least because of the transnational character of many internet contracts. Private international law (also known as conflict of laws) is the legal subject concerned with jurisdictional questions – i.e. questions of where court proceedings may be brought. Private international law is international inasmuch as it is […]