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digital signatures and negotiable instruments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Mar 11 17:36:52 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:29:38 -0500
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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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From: "Jane K. Winn" <jwinn@POST.CIS.SMU.EDU>
Subject: digital signatures and negotiable instruments
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A draft of my article on Couriers without Luggage: Negotiable Instruments
and Digital Signatures has been put up at www.smu.edu/~jwinn/ecourier.htm.
It will be published as part of a symposium later this spring in the South
Carolina Law Review on electronic commerce issues. Bob Jueneman and R.J.
Robertson will have another piece in the same issue.
This paper is designed to explain the significance of digital signatures to
lawyers and law professors who are familiar with traditional commercial law
systems such as negotiable instruments using terms with which they feel
comfortable. I hope it will also be useful for people with technical
backgrounds who are puzzled by the all the fuss lawyers and law professors
make over doctrines of negotiability and wonder what relevance they have for
modern electronic commerce systems.
Since the paper will not be sent to the printers for several weeks, any
comments or criticisms from members of this list are most welcome.
jkw
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Jane Kaufman Winn jwinn@mail.smu.edu
Associate Professor http://www.smu.edu/~jwinn
Southern Methodist University tel: (214) 768-2583
School of Law fax: (214) 768-4330
Dallas, Texas 75275-0116
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