UBACyT research projects
Starting date of the project
July 1, 2010
Ending date of the project
June 30, 2013
Code
20020090100048
Type of project
Consolidated group
Title
The applicable law in the matter of electronic contracts with consumers: bases for the legislative harmonization in the MERCOSUR.
Director
Sara Lidia Feldstein
Contact
| MEMBERS | ||
|---|---|---|
| N° | Name | Category |
| 1 | Alicia Noemí Farinati |
Researcher formed |
| 2 | Susana Beatríz Palacio | Researcher formed |
| 3 | Mónica Sofía Rodríguez | Researcher formed |
| 4 | Luciana Beatríz Scotti | Researcher formed |
| 5 | Vieira Luciane Klein | Research thesis student |
| 6 | Flavia Andrea Medina | Research thesis student |
| 7 | María Eugenia Bentancurt | Investigator in training |
| 8 | Mónica María Boretto | Investigator in training |
| 9 | Daniela Alejandra Bianchi | Student researcher |
| 10 | Aldana Puentes Garrido | Student researcher |
Keywords
Electronic contracts
Consumer
Legislative harmonization
Abstract
The intensification of the commercial interchanges and the search of an economy without borders have taken to States to conform integrated spaces in order to reach their own economic and social development. In this tendency the conformation of the MERCOSUR from the approval of the Treaty of Asunción in 1991 (the Federal Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Uruguay, the Republic of Paraguay and the Republic of Argentine). The Mercosur, that has by objective to reach the free circulation of people, capitals, goods and services, affects the regulation of the relations celebrated electronically by the commercial operators, in general, and those in which the consumers take part (B2C), in particular. The technological advance of computer science and the expansion of networks have allowed an exponential increase of international electronic commerce of goods and services in the integrated spaces, among them, in the MERCOSUR and on the other hand, they have facilitated the celebration of international contract celebration with consumers through these new technological means. However, in our region we still did not count on suitable, specific legislation that dowry of legal security to these transactions and serves as instrument to solve the possible controversies. Indeed, this investigation intends to make an analysis of the exposed phenomenon and to design bases of legislative harmonization on applicable law in the matter of international electronic contracts with consumers in the Mercosur.