DETERMINING THE COMPETENT COURT IN CONSUMER'S INTERNATIONAL E.CONTRACTS

Determining the competent court in electronic consumer contracts is considered an essential matter in e.commerce law. But it becomes more important when consumer contracts are at issue, because of his/her need to be protected.In this paper, first come contractual clauses which determine the competenet court and their conditions and restrictions, then are studied the connecting factors that are used to determine such a court in case the parties have failed to make a choice and their relevance in Cyber-space and the last part concerns the exceptional rules of consumer contracts.