Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues (Print ISSN: 1544-0036; Online ISSN: 1544-0044)

Abstract

Review of Covid-19 and E-Commerce in the Moroccan Legal System: Challenges and Opportunities

Author(s): Tareck Alsamara, Farid Khalidi

Covid-19 is spreading throughout the world, with its negative impact on health, economic, and financial institutions. This is affecting the countries’ economic and social activities in general and companies in particular. To contain the virus’s spread, Morocco declared a state of emergency and sanitary containment on March 20, 2020. One area that concerns us as jurists is the legal e-commerce system and the latter’s fate during and after the pandemic. We are trying to introduce e-commerce to analyze its situation during and after this state of a health emergency. E-commerce is an unprecedented and astonishing phenomenon. To be convinced of this, we look for evidence. More precisely, we aim to show, on the one hand, the mechanisms by which the concept of emerging diseases is imposed, in our case, covid-19. On the other, we consider new configurations that are related to ecommerce, legislative and regulatory frameworks. The objective of our scientific analysis is to target issues that are related to consumer protection in e-commerce law, such as the information communicated within companies, unfair commercial practices, the security of online payments, data protection and confidentiality, dispute resolution and remedies, and the international and national electronic transactions.

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