Becher and Zarsky, ‘Minding the Gap’

Abstract
The digital world has become part of our DNA. The way e-commerce, human behavior and law interact and affect one another has come to be of enormous significance. Among other things, the internet equips consumers with a variety of platforms to share information of a volume unimaginable before. As part of this development, online information flows allow consumers to learn about businesses and their contracts efficiently and quickly. Consumers can become informed by coming across the impressions that other, experienced, consumers share and spread. Potentially, consumers may familiarize themselves with the contents of contracts through the experiences of other consumers. Online and offline, relations between consumers and businesses are most frequently governed by consumer standard form contracts. For decades such contracts have been assumed one-sidedly biased against consumers …

Becher, Shmuel I and Zarsky, Tal, Minding the Gap (January 6, 2018).

First posted 2018-02-20 06:38:34

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