The impact of determining international jurisdiction on consumer protection in contracts for electronic consumption

Abstract

Consumption contracts that are concluded via the Internet have become one of the most important means of flourishing global trade at the present time, but they have raised many legal problems, which have become an existing challenge to legal systems, and perhaps the most important is the issue of determining international jurisdiction to resolve disputes that arise about it,  whose inevitably impact reverts on the weak party (the consumer) who must be protected. So this study searches for the impact on consumer protection as a result of the works of traditional standards regarding the determination of  international jurisdiction over this type of contracts, and to indicate  the need to set special standards whose work entails providing the necessary protection to the consumer when he is the weak party in the contractual relationship, and how to limit the work of these standards when (the consumer) is in an equal legal position with the other party (the professional ) in order to provide protection for the latter being the most useful care In such cases.