Chuchkovska A. Legal Regulation of Commercial Contracts made through telecommunications networks.

The dissertation is an independent and first comprehensive research on legal regulation in the field of commercial contracts made through telecommunications networks, particularly through Internet; the research is based on current legislation of Ukraine, standard acts of international organizations and individual countries of the world. On the grounds of this documentary basis the new legal notion of e-commerce is analyzed, legal relationships related to this notion and the principles of its legal regulation are reviewed, and institution of legal proceedings trough telecommunications networks is studied, and in respect with the latter notion the use of electronic documents and electronic signatures is discussed, including a research of the notion of commercial contract form with consideration of modern electronic information media, with special attention to essential conditions of such commercial contracts.