Towards the further legalization of global information law -- Data protection and transborder data flows: balancing proprietary and privacy rights -- Technology surveillance -- Copyright and the challenges of the digital age: can all interests be reconciled? -- Limiting copyrights: considerations for an international fair use standard -- Patents: a global perspective -- Internet regulation -- Domain names: a global view -- Cryptography and electronic signatures -- Effective formation of contracts by electronic means: does the world need a uniform regulatory regime? -- Vendor's liability for defective software in a global market -- Resolving disputes over information technology transfers -- Declaration of principles building the information society: a global challenge in the new millennium -- Plan of action -- 1996 UNCITRAL model law on electronic commerce -- 2001 UNCITRAL model law on electronic signatures -- UNCITRAL draft convention on the use of electronic communications in international contracts.