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Atoms Versus Bits: Consumer Protection in the (Cyber) Trade Regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Sonia E. Rolland
Sonia E. Rolland*
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Northeastern University School of Law; Georgetown University Law Center
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Can International Law Keep Up with the Internet?
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 353 - 357
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2015

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2 Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre le Racisme et L’Antisémitisme; L’Union des Étudiants Juifs de France, 433 F.3d 1199 (9th Cir. 2006).

3 Code Pénal [C. Pén.] art. R645-1 (Fr.).

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8 For a full examination of the role of consumer interests in WTO law, see Rolland, Sonia E., Are Consumer-Oriented Rules the New Frontier of Trade Liberalizations? 55 Harv. Int’l L.J. 401 (2014)Google Scholar.

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