This paper examines the interplay between the issue of privacy and a new, evolving form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) made possible by the Internet - online dispute resolution (ODR). The rise of ADR in the recent past was primarily the product of growing dissatisfaction with the...

This chapter tackles a somewhat neglected realm of the information privacy discourse, by directly examining the specific detriments arising from the systematic uses of personal information collected online. The chapter begins by drawing out the flow of personal information in today's digital...

If a person in one state posts on the Internet a libelous statement about a person living in another state the question often arises as to whether the person with the injured reputation can sue in his home state or must bring suit in the courts of another state, presumably the home state of...

This article examines P2P file sharing and the copyright enforcement problem it has created through the lens of scalability. Writing about the growth and governance of the Internet, David Post observed that "scaling problems - the problems that arise solely as a consequence of increasing size or...

How different are common law and civil law legal systems? This question has occupied legal scholars for a long time. In the last 15 years the common law/civil law divide has also become a major theme in research of economics, finance and business. In many studies it is alleged that English legal...

Today's increasing rate of technological change results from the rapid growth in computer processing speed, when combined with the cost decline of processing capacity, and is of historical import. The daily life of billions of individuals worldwide has been forever changed by technology in just...

This comment first defines the concept of e-comrnerce, discussing its development in the international market. The comment next examines the legal questions raised in the use of the Internet to facilitate business. Legally speaking, in order to promote efficiency in the world market this comment...

This article is a short overview of the proposed EU Digital Services Act (DSA): its history, main features and its relation to both the existing laws (E-Commerce Directive) and is sister act (Digital Markets Act). The article looks at how DSA proposes to solve the problem of making internet...

P2P file-sharing dominated the illegal online uses of copyrighted materials since its appearance in 1999. In 2012, I have concluded my research on this field in a monograph. Six years passed by and it is time to double-check what foreseeable consequences came through and how some other...

One of the most difficult issues in cyber conflict is the application of territorial sovereignty and other geographic principles to an activity that defies the traditional notions of borders. The structure of the internet and the protocols by which it operates, including the inability to direct...