Electronic Commerce

This problem-based casebook will enliven your course or seminar with its sensible transactional approach to electronic commerce. Thorough yet succinct, Electronic Commerce, Second Edition, provides a current examination of a fast-moving area of the law.

The casebook guides students through the topic and helps instructors make the most of class time:

• lucid and concise reading assignments use clear non-technical language wherever possible
• realistic exercises illustrate current issues in e-commerce practice
• distinguished authorship from Ronald Mann, a prolific scholar in Commercial Law who recently served as Reporter for revisions to UCC Articles 3, 4, and 4A, and Jane K. Winn, who draw on classroom experience to make the text student-friendly
• clear and accessible explanations of need-to-know technology
• organized into 40 separate assignments so professors can concentrate on their own areas of interest
• coverage of important commercial law topics, such as click-through contracts, cybersquatting, web site development, software licensing, and electronic payments
• extensive Teacher's Manual provides answers to the assignments in the book
• companion web site will complement and enrich printed materials

The Second Edition introduces a new approach, along with new material:

• the transactional approach gives students a preview of practice, with three new assignments focusing on specific contracts of importance — web site development, site licenses, and software licenses
• significant new and updated cases: Dluhos v. Strasberg and walmartsucks.com on cybersquatting, Intel Corp. v. Hamidi, Specht v. Netscape (appellate opinion), Bowers v. Baystates Technologies, and Aerocon v. Silicon Valley Bank (appellate decision)
• discussion of new statutes, such as CAN-SPAM and Check 21

In a textbook for students with the first-year of a law curriculum behind them, Mann (commercial and business law, U. of Texas) and Winn (law, commerce, and technology; U. of Washington) survey the entire field of electronic commerce, within the premise that developments in the technology of managing and analyzing information as well as the Internet, have had a significant effect of virtually every aspect of commercial transactions. They discuss basic questions about which jurisdictions and judicial regimes can regulate an Internet business, the context within which Internet businesses operation, and electronic commerce transactions. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR