Document Type

Article

Publication Title

SMU Law Review

Abstract

This article explores two areas in which the advent of XML (Extensible Markup Language) poses issues of interest in contract law, or more specifically, sales law. What is noteworthy, however, is that neither of these issues is unique to XML. Rather, in each case, XML simply provides a new manifestation or application of a long-existing issue in commercial law. This is a source of hope, insofar as resolution of these issues does not require the development of new institutions or pose insurmountable obstacles to successful contracting. On the other hand, the prevalence of these problems in sales law generally suggests that they are to some extent intractable and that we should not anticipate easy answers to them simply because we have developed a technology that makes these problems more transparent.

First Page

1431

Volume

53

Publication Date

2000

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