Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) has been promoted for quickly and conveniently resolving claims using online “drive-thru” processes instead of more costly and time-consuming face-to-face meetings and hearings. Most commentators have nonetheless focused mainly on non-binding or automated...

La versión española de este artículo se puede encontrar en: http://ssrn.com/abstract=4040930.This paper addresses a research agenda of the regulatory challenges of digital financial platforms. After approaching the nature of digital financial platforms, the decentralized finances that arise...

This paper attempts to simplify the liability of online intermediaries as publishers of third party defamatory content that they host. It proposes that due to two significant gaps in the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015, the law of defamation must be reformed to provide predictable...

Online retail is a multi-billion-dollar industry in the United States. Consumers enjoy the ease with which they can browse, click, and order goods from the comfort of their own homes. Though it may come as no surprise to most lawyers, retailers are taking advantage of online transactions by...

Social media platforms operate under their own social order. Design decisions and policies set by platforms steer user behavior. Additionally, members of online communities set informal expectations that form a unique set of norms. These social media norms—like oversharing, disinhibition, and...

The challenges for the existing legal framework, entailed by the Internet revolution, to a growing extent tackle also on the problems of inheritance law. The Bundesgerichtshof's decision of 12 July 2018 (III ZR 183/17) serves as a clear epitome of the complexity of questions triggered by the...