The Impact of Private International Law on International Cybersecurity Contract Disputes

Al-Shammari, Rezan Hamoudi Karim

doi:10.63677/jqlap.2025.165711.1451

	The Impact of Private International Law on International Cybersecurity Contract Disputes
AL-Qadisiya Journal For Law and Political Sciences
Article 23, Volume 17, Issue: 1 part 2, June 2026, Pages 517-538 PDF (585.94 K)
Document Type: Research Paper
DOI: 10.63677/jqlap.2025.165711.1451
Author
Rezan Hamoudi Karim Al-Shammari^*
College of Law / Al-Muthanna University
Abstract
Private international law is considered the ideal reference for resolving disputes involving a foreign element, whether these disputes fall within the scope of personal status, civil, or commercial matters. Given that society is now rapidly adopting modern technologies in all aspects, it has become imperative for private international law, with its rules and procedures, to keep pace with this development and level of modernity. This is necessary to resolve disputes arising from any new technology that is the subject of a contract, if the legal relationship includes a foreign characteristic that characterizes one of the elements of this relationship. Among these technologies, cybersecurity technology has emerged with its electronic programs to keep pace with increasing scientific progress and has entered all public and private fields, including the commercial field. Large commercial companies seek to protect their data, knowledge, and customer secrets by concluding cybersecurity contracts to transfer software technologies or obtain training services from relevant entities. A distinguished specialization in this preventive field, to preserve its trade secrets, it is the duty of the party supplying technical knowledge in cybersecurity to adhere to the contract and not breach its terms, as such breach has a significant negative economic impact on the contracting party benefiting from concluding the contract.

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