millennium - although probably not within two decades - it could come to vie in the curriculum with roppo (six Code) subjects: constitutional law, civil law, civil procedure, commercial law, criminal law, and criminal procedure. Further, within intellectual property law itself, cyberspace will create more issues and debate in some areas than in others: copyright rather than patent law, for instance. Similar changing emphases will be found in other areas of law. In contract law, for instance, there will probably be a general trend away from the stress on contracts being written down or evidenced in writing. In many jurisdictions, this is evident both in statutory requirements often dating back to the dawn of the print era, and in judgments even today as to when parties intended to be legally bound (Nottage, 1998b). Developments in the IT era, such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), will force a reassessment of the proper role for formal requirements (Pejovic, 1998; Uchida, 1998a; see also MITI, 1997). Existing views on the allocation of risks and responsibilities will be challenged by developments such as `vendor managed inventory' (VMI): Before VMI, a buyer such as a retailer would analyze its sales, and based on its analysis place orders for new inventory. Under VMI, the responsibility for analyzing sales and for deciding when the buyer will receive new product shifts to the seller. The buyer sends raw sales data in electronic form to seller. Seller then makes judgments as to which products are more likely to sell