Approaches Determining the Applicable Law Using Internet Technologies in the Digital Economy

Abstract

In the era of intensive development and growth of information technologies, new legal norms controlling legal relations when using new Internet technologies are formed. Moreover, digitization of economic relations accelerates the civilian turnover, and transactions are made much faster and more convenient for the parties. The forms of interaction between foreign counterparties are changing. The study considers current approaches that are used in Russia, the United States and the EU countries to determine the applicable law to legal relations when using the Internet. The author highlights restrictions on the choice of the applicable law in the states under consideration. On the basis of the studied approaches, their advantages and disadvantages, we can assume further trends in the norms of private international law.