Computers and Law

Table of contents

1. Bytes Into Computer Law

By Indira Mahalingam Carr, Katherine S. Williams

Pt. I. Legal Aspects of Electronic Data Interchange

2. Three Types of EDI Contracts

By Sergej H. Katus

3. The Need to Standardise in an EDI Environment: Balancing the Legal Conditions and Implications

By Corien Prins

Pt. II. Issues in Commercial Law

4. Liability for Fraud and Mistake in Electronic Transfers of Funds

By Maria Chiara Malaguti

5. Shipping Documents and EDI

By Diana Faber

Pt. III. Issues Relating to Intellectual Property

6. Software Protection Under Eurorean Community Law

By Andreas Wehlau

7. Protecting Computer Databases Under the United States Copyright Laws: Implication of the FEIST Decision

By John T. Cross

8. Electronic Data Interchange: The Perspectives of Private International Law and Data Protection

By Thomas Hoeren

Pt. IV. Evidential Matters

9. A Forensic Methodology for Countering Computer Crime

By P.A. Collier, B.J. Spaul

10. Computers, Hearsay and the English Law of Evidence

By Michael Hirst

11. Evidential Issues in an Electronic Data Interchange Context According to Norwegian Law

By Andreas Galtung

Pt. V. Artificial Intelligence Applications to Law

12. The Use of an Expert System Shell to Present the Mental Health Act to Social Workers

By R.J. Hartley, S. Morris, John Williams

13. The Maintanance of Legal Knowledge Based Systems

By Trevor Bench-Capon, Frans Coenen

14. The Problem With Law in Books and Law in Computers: The Oral Nature of Law

By Philip Leith

15. Competence and Legal Liability in the Development of Software for Safety Related Applications

By Diane Rowland, Jem J. Rowland

Index