Jay Forder's professional expertise and interest lies in the areas of contract law, information technology and electronic commerce law with his major research activity focusing on information technology and the law. After graduating with honours in the Bachelor of Laws, Jay was awarded a Beit Trust Postgraduate Fellowship and completed an LLM at University College London. On returning to Zimbabwe, he completed his articles and practised in a small firm of solicitors in Bulawayo. In 1984 he took up a lectureship at the University of Fort Hare, and in 1986 a senior lectureship at the University of Natal in South Africa. Jay came to Bond University in 1991, teaching in the remedies, contract, and equity courses. He introduced the elective course on Information Technology and the Law in 1994 and he is a co-author of Electronic Commerce and the Law, John Wiley, 2003.
Articles
The inadequate legislative response to e-signatures, Computer law & security review (2010)
This article examines the two most influential international initiatives on electronic signatures (UNCITRAL’s 1996 Model...
Limiting parody sites and metatags, Law papers (2001)
[Extract] What action can be taken to limit the activities of a parody website? Are...
The dilemmas of globalisation, Law papers (2001)
[Extract] The Internet merely highlights the clash of cultures by enabling efficient cross-border advertising on...
Will domain problems split the Internet?, Law papers (2000)
[Extract] The biggest news in the Internet community over the last few months has been...
When the e-doctor calls, Law papers (2000)
[Extract] Amongst recent reports on problems with the growth of e-commerce, a particularly interesting development...
Books
Internet and e-commerce law (with Dan Jerker B. Svantesson), Law papers (2008)
Internet and E-Commerce Law provides a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the laws of e-commerce...
Book Chapters
Difficulties with e-signatures: How shall we know them?, Legal discourse in cyberlaw and trade (2009)
This paper suggests that Australia's Electronic Transactions legislation (and UNCITRAL's 1996 Model Law on Electronic...