Vulnerability – a vulnerable idea In recent years, vulnerability has emerged as one of central concepts in discussions on digital market policy. Its gist is straightforward: while interactions between consumers and firms generate various risks and potential harms, not everyone is equally affected. Certain groups, due to factors such as age, income, or education, [...]
Cryptostatecraft and the return of Donald Trump to the White House ‘Voter anxiety over the economy and a desire for change returns Donald Trump to the White House,’ reads one of the many headlines explaining Donald Trump’s re-election in 2024. The German Tagesschau correspondent in Washington dramatically states, ‘even though Americans were concerned [...]
Introduction On 23 October 2024, the APPLIED project, led by Francesca Episcopo, Anna van Duin, and Jef Ausloos, hosted an expert workshop at the University of Amsterdam. APPLIED – Assessing Private Parties Litigation in the Economy of Data – examines the role and effectiveness of collective private enforcement (CPE) in data protection law across [...]
Introduction Algorithm-enabled “personalisation” is a hot topic in legal scholarship. In recent times, “personalised law” has been the subject of books (like this and this), a conference culminating in a high-level online symposium and numerous events. As someone who stays largely out of digitalisation debates, I was impressed to discover the debate that has [...]
Within the framework of Transformative Private Law, a leading role must necessarily be recognized for Contract Law, traditionally both a receptor for social demands and an engine of economic innovations in an unceasing circular process. As a flexible tool capable, at the same time, of adapting to the needs of reality and inducing deep [...]
Much debate arose regarding the role that private law is supposed to serve in the digital environment: the widespread of new technologies is almost unanimously understood as posing significant challenges to traditional concepts of law, introducing questions regarding the adequacy of the legal framework to encompass new disruptive technologies as well as the need [...]