Jane K. Winn

  • Professor of Law

Contact

Phone: (206) 543-4326
Email: jkwinn1@u.washington.edu

Jane Winn

Education

B.S.1980, Queen Mary College, University of London J.D. 1987, Harvard University

Areas of Expertise

Asian Law 鈥 Banking Law 鈥 Comparative Law 鈥 Contracts 鈥 Cyber Law 鈥 E-Commerce 鈥 Privacy

Recent Courses

Course Number Course Name
Sales
International Business Transactions
Drafting Business Documents
Access To Justice Seminar

Selected Publications

  • Jane Winn & Benjamin Wright, The Law of Electronic Commerce (4th ed. 2001 & Supp. 2020-1, Aspen).
  • Jane K. Winn, Regulatory Developments in the European Union: Structures and Frameworks, in Electronic Payment Systems: Law and Emerging Technologies 207-38 (Edward A. Morse ed., American Bar Association 2018).

See the full list under the Publications tab below.

Professor Winn, of the Center for Advanced Study & Research on Innovation Policy and a Fulbright Scholar, is a leading international authority on electronic commerce law as well as regulatory governance issues arising from technology innovation in global markets. She joined the faculty in 2002. Her current research interests include electronic commerce law and governance developments in the United States, the European Union, India, and China. She is coauthor of Law of Electronic Commerce and the casebook Electronic Commerce.

On leave 2016-2017 Fulbright Research Grant:聽 Cross-Strait Digital Ties:聽 China-Taiwan Electronic Commerce, Hsinchu, Taiwan and Hangzhou, China

Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews

  • Jane K. Winn, Kate Vitasek & Toni Nickel, The Vested Way: A Model of Formal Relational Contracts, 52 U. Pac. L. Rev. 125 (2021).
  • Jane K. Winn, Hard Law and Soft Law in International Commercial Law Reform, 3 Sungkyunkwan J. Sci. & Tech. L. 173-86 (2009).
  • Jane K. Winn, Diverging National Regulatory Strategies in Global ICT Standards Competition, 2 Sungkyunkwan J. Sci. & Tech. L. 1-11 (2008).
  • Jane K Winn, Can Information Security Be Regulated?, 2 Sungkyunkwan J. Sci. & Tech. L. 185-96 (2008).
  • Jane Winn, Insurance for Cyber-risks: Business and Legal Issues, 1 Sungkyunkwan J. Sci. & Tech. L. 87-96 (2007).
  • Jane Winn & Mariana Silveira, Secured Transactions and Electronic Commerce Law: Diverging Perspectives in North and South America, 16 Mich. St. J. Int鈥檒 L. 239-69 (2007).
  • Jane Kaufman Winn, ¿Se impondrán los Códigos Abiertos? [Can Open Source Succeed?], 6 Foro de Derecho Mercantil: Revista Internacional 100-25 (2005).

Books or Treatises

  • Jane Winn & Benjamin Wright, The Law of Electronic Commerce (4th ed. 2001 & Supp. 2020-1, Aspen).
  • Jane Winn & Benjamin Wright, The Law of Electronic Commerce (4th ed. Aspen 2001 & semi-annual supps.).
  • Consumer Protection in the Age of the 鈥淚nformation Economy鈥 (Jane K. Winn ed., Ashgate 2006). 456 pages.
  • Ronald J. Mann & Jane K. Winn, Electronic Commerce (2d ed. Aspen 2005). 790 pages, plus supplement.

Book Chapters

  • Jane K. Winn, Regulatory Developments in the European Union: Structures and Frameworks, in Electronic Payment Systems: Law and Emerging Technologies 207-38 (Edward A. Morse ed., American Bar Association 2018).
  • Jane Kaufman Winn & Tang-chi Yeh, Advocating Democracy: The Role of Lawyers in Taiwan鈥檚 Political Transformation, in Law in Many Societies: A Reader (Lawrence M. Friedman, Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo & Manuel A. Gómez eds., Stanford Law Books 2011).
  • Jane K. Winn, Social Networks, Electronic Commerce, and Economic Liberalization in China, in The Politics of Affective Relations: East Asia and Beyond 231-47 (Hahm Chaihark & Daniel A. Bell eds., Lexington Books 2004).

Book Reviews

  • Jane K. Winn, Precautionary Schemes, 4 Eur. J. Risk Reg. 293-96 (2013) ((reviewing The Reality of Precaution:  Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe (Jonathan B. Weiner et al. eds., 2011) and David Vogel, The Politics of Precaution:  Regulating the Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States (2012)).

Professional Publications

  • Jane Winn, Politique culturelle française: Regard d鈥檜n juriste américain à l鈥檋eure de la mondialisation, Juris Art Etc., June 2014, at 27-29 (Fr.).

  • Speaker, "From Regulation by Enforcement to Pragmatic Governance in American Administrative Law: Case Studies of the Role of Law in Digital Transformation," Conference on Discretionary Justice in the Digitalized Age, Chinese University of Politics and Law (July 5, 2025)
  • Speaker, "Rise of Pragmatic Governance in China鈥檚 Regulation of FinTech Innovation," China-America Legal Scholars Dialogue, singhua University School of Law and University of Pennsylvania School of Law (June 30, 2025)
  • Speaker, "Money as Information and its Implications for the Rise of China," Faculty Research Workshop, Peking University School of Transnational Law (June 19, 2025)
  • Panelist, "What Impact Will the Knowledge Governance Revolution on Have on Private International Law?鈥 in De-Mythologizing Disruptive Technologies: Continuity and Change in Private International Law for Cross-Border Transactions in the Al Era," Annual Meeting 2025, American Society of International Law (April 17, 2025)
  • Speaker, "New Forms of Governance Require New Forms of Legitimacy," Peking University School of Law (December 18, 2024)
  • Speaker, "Has the American Legal Profession Lost Its Way?," Peking University School of Law (December 11, 2024)
  • Speaker, "The Uberization of Money and Payment," Soochow University School of Law (January 7, 2017)
  • Speaker, "U.S. Law School for International Students: Critical Success Factors," Soochow University School of Law (January 7, 2017)
  • Speaker, "What Impact Will 鈥淩egTech" Have on the Legal Profession?," Soochow University School of Law (January 7, 2017)
  • Speaker, "RegTech: Will It Make Lawyers Obsolete?," Research Seminar, National Tsinghua University (December 15, 2016)
  • Speaker, "The Global Frontier of FinTech Innovation: How Regulators in Europe, United States, China, India and Taiwan Are Responding," Annual Financial Law Conference, Chinese Culture University School of Law (December 14, 2016)
  • Speaker, "Can Regulation Promote Innovation? Assessing the Impact of ROC Payment Law Reforms on FinTech Innovators in Taiwan," National Chiao Tung University School of Law (December 10, 2016)
  • Speaker, "RegTech: Promise or Peril for the Legal Profession?," National Chiao Tung University School of Law (December 10, 2016)
  • Speaker, "U.S. Law School for International Students: Critical Success Factors," National Chiao Tung University School of Law (December 10, 2016)
  • Speaker, "Framework Contracts and the New Managerial Revolution," John Kidwell Memorial Lecture, University of Wisconsin Law School Institute for Legal Studies and Wisconsin Contracts Group (September 16, 2016)
  • Sep 17, 2020 | Source: KIRO 7

    When Jack Sorensen asked Ali Schultz for her hand in marriage, they booked their big day at the 162-acre Saltwater Farms in Friday Harbor. But now the couple is lawyering up. Not for a pre-nup, but to deal with their venue. Jane Winn, professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.