The European Union has established "a new international legal order" whose success was ultimately reflected by the leading role the Community assumed in designing the world's economic agenda. However, the emergence of the Information society put to the test the efficiency of EU's economic and governmental model. The Information revolution challenged its ability to provide timely economic and legal policies to accommodate the existing business environment to technological innovations. As the Community was seemingly slow to react, it allowed the US to surpass it, temporarily, in the race for supremacy in the online economy. Nevertheless, the EU found in its Internal market and its unique legal system the resources to create a coherent and effective approach to e-commerce. It defeated "unflattering" predictions and eventually succeeded in imposing its own standards on the development of online commercial transactions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.34015 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Creators | Mirica, Andreea. |
| Contributors | de Mestral, Armand (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Laws (Institute of Comparative Law.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001863563, proquestno: MQ79140, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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