Publication Type
Blog Post
Book Title/Conference/Journal
Cambridge International Law Journal
Year
2-2026
Abstract
A legislative text published for the benefit of its 56 member countries, the Commonwealth of Nations officially adopted the Model Law on Digital Trade (MLDT) in September 2025. The Commonwealth MLDT addresses a persistent barrier to digital trade (i.e., all trade that is digitally ordered and/or digitally delivered): the laws of many jurisdictions do not sufficiently recognise the legal requirements of electronic commerce (e-commerce) and continue to emphasise paper-bases for commercial communications and transactions in domestic and cross-border contexts.
Keywords
Digital trade, Electronic commerce, Model law, Commonwealth, Cross-border trade, Digital regulation, Electronic transactions
Disciplines
International Trade Law | Law | Public Policy
Subject(s)
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
Version
publishedVersion
Language
eng
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Format
application/PDF
Citation
ATKINSON, Craig.
A ‘digital dominion’: Launching the Commonwealth model law on digital trade. (2026). Cambridge International Law Journal. 5.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cdl/5
Additional URL
https://cilj.co.uk/a-digital-dominion-launching-the-commonwealth-model-law/