Barbara Lamar wrote:
>
> >
> > So, to take a classic case, what happens when your security/law
> > enforcement body decides to haul me away on some charge that makes
> > since
> > to your law making agency but my law making agency and security/law
> > enforcement utterly disagrees? Who decides the issue? Do they
> > fight it
> > out? What next level body and set of rules do they appeal to?
>
> Something similar to this situation has developed in the area of
> international law as applied to e-commerce. For example, when a dispute
> arises between a merchant physically located in Callifornia over goods
> manufactured in and shipped from Korea to a buyer in England, it's not
> clear which country's laws will apply for purposes of interpreting the
> contract, or which courts have jurisdiction in the event one of the
> parties wishes to file a lawsuit. Ideally, the parties would specify
> this in their initial contract, but this is often neglected.
>
> The situation is similar to that which existed when merchant ships first
> began traveling between Europe and China. While ships were at sea they
> were bound to the laws of no jurisdiction. Admiralty law developed in
> response to the need for predictability in the relationships between
> ships at sea.
There is also the Uniform Commercial Code (a less well known but more important,
IMHO, uncle/cousin to GATT)
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