The Special Branch of the College of Law conducted a seminar to discuss the master’s thesis project submitted by a graduate student (Zahra Jawad Kazem) entitled (The Choice of Electronic Vision in Consumer Protection – a comparative study). The seminar dealt with a problematic analysis that the Iraqi legislator ignored the role of electronic means in concluding contracts that The electronic consumer is a party to it, which takes place via the phone, the Internet, and other means produced by technological development, despite its definition of the traditional consumer in the first article of it. Also, the Iraqi legislator has stipulated in the effective Consumer Protection Law No. 1 of 2010 in paragraph 2 of Article 7 of the consumer’s right to return the goods in whole or in part to the supplier, rescind the contract, and claim compensation in only one case (if he did not obtain sufficient information about the entire contract, If he was not provided with the documents proving the contract concluded between them if he did not give the prescribed guarantees) but he did not give the consumer this right in the event of discovering a defect in the commodity or that it does not conform to the required specifications or the purpose for which it was contracted after seeing it, and this affects Certainly the protection prescribed to the consumer.
The Scientific Committee in the Special Branch discussed the research project and expressed its directions to the student. It also made some substantive modifications in the methodology of the scientific research and others in the research plan and the origin of the research topic. It also discussed the substantive topics in the research such as the legal and jurisprudential foundations for using the vision option in electronic transactions with the necessity of dividing the investigations in a way Coherent and put the topics within the investigations that were allocated to it so that the research is not disjointed and tainted by confusion between the topics.