This Article presents the results of the first empirical study of the role that punitive damages have played in redressing consumer injuries during the first decade of Internet-related litigation. This article examines the case characteristics of Internet lawsuits where plaintiffs initiated...

Chapter Eight provide a practice tips for coping with cloud computing. Cloud computing is an on-demand computing paradigm where clients remotely access software applications and data available over the Internet. Cloud computing includes the use of Internet-based computing, storage and...

This chapter covers hardware contracts between organizations that do not manufacture computers. Although Section 6.02 discusses a number of cases in which leases between manufacturers and users are involved, special aspects of lease agreements are considered in Section 5.03. Section 6.02 is...

Part I of this article is the first empirical examination of the Chinese social media universe. We develop a typology of twenty-five of China's most popular social media sites and compare terms of use from these social media with their U.S. counterparts. Part II compares the contracting...

The Internet has created a permanent and pervasive treasure trove of digital fingerprints beyond any scale created by prior information technologies such as television, radio, or the telephone. Internet users increasingly live their private lives in public through the self-immolation of their...

Our systematic examination of 329 of the world's largest social media providers reveals that 29 percent of these providers require users to submit to predispute mandatory arbitration as a condition of using their services. Forced consumer arbitration clauses are principally a U.S. phenomenon....

This Article is a new audit of parens patriae public health lawsuits in which government attorneys address grave public health problems not resolved by either private tort litigation or administrative regulations. Our argument is that public health lawsuits are justified when the states have a...