It is a truth universally acknowledged that every ambitious 21st century trade agreement is in want of a chapter on electronic commerce. One of the most politically sensitive and technically challenging issues is personal privacy, including cross-border transfer of information by electronic...

Canada has much to gain by joining the Council of Europe's Modernized Convention on Personal Data Protection (Convention 108+), based on its predecessor, the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data. The latter remains the only binding...

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) was concluded in 1980 and came into force in Canada in 1992, yet commentators continue to note the reluctance of Canadian parties to apply the Convention to their international sales contracts and the...