Full Description
This collection of essays assesses how contract laws throughout the Asia-Pacific region are facing challenges and transforming in response to the digital world.
Certainly, the Asia-Pacific is a truly diverse region, but this book establishes the common grounds across jurisdictions, in terms of contract laws and the challenges posed by the digital world. Looking at contract law more generally - formation, terms and mitigating factors - in jurisdictions such as Australia, Malaysia, Japan, and Bangladesh, it offers rigorous doctrinal analysis of the laws in the region. Recognised experts share key insights which will influence the future of private law in the area.
Contents
PART A: CONTRACT LAW, GENERALLY
1. Introduction
2. Of Technological Innovations, Algorithms and their 'Challenges' to Hong Kong Contractual
Norms
3. The Influence of the Digital World on Traditional Contract Law in Bangladesh (Omar H
Khan)
4. The Legal Status of E-Contracts and E-Commerce in Indonesia
5. The New law on E-Transactions in Vietnam and its Impact on Traditional Contract Doctrine
6. The Impact of Online Platform Transactions on Contract Theories in South Korea
PART B: FORMATION
7. Automated Contracting and the Minimalisation of Contract Formation: Perspectives on the
Law of Macau
8. Thai Contract Law in the Digital Era
9. Contract Law in the Digital Era in Singapore: Navigating Familiar Ways and Forging Fresh
Paths in a New World
10. The Evolving Nature of Consent: Juxtaposing Contract Law and Data Privacy in India for
Social Media Contracts
11. Acceptance of Offer in E-commerce - the Sri Lankan Experience
12. The Digital World and Contract Formation Laws: Lessons Learned from the Amendment to
the Electronic Signatures Act in Taiwan
PART C: TERMS AND VITIATING FACTORS
13. The Impact of Digital Technology on Chinese Contract
14. The Horizontal Influence of AI Regulation on Contractual Risk Allocation and Limitation
Clauses in Australia
15. Manipulative Advertising and Vitiating Factors
16. Mistake in the Digital World in Malaysia
PART D: MISCELLANEOUS
17. Data Contracts and Civil Code in Japan
18. The Status and Effect of Smart Contracts in Asia-Pacific Private International Law
