Over centuries, efficient allocation of limited resources has been one main concerns of governments and social scientists. The emergence of the Internet fuelled the proliferation of online matching platforms that facilitate the redistribution of omnipresent surplus resources. This article...

What are the key factors that facilitate innovation and creativity? This chapter begins by challenging the traditional emphasis on IP rights as an incentive to innovate. While it is true, that IP rights provide for a much needed tool to protect creative ideas, we argue that a much more important...

The Article is devoted to analyse general principles of EC law that are pertinent in state aid proceedings. Particular emphasis is placed to investigate the clash of public and private interests in the field of state aid law. The author modestly considers the possibility of the improvement of...

This article is devoted to analyse the drafting process of Rome I regulation and highlight certain challenges that emerge during the preparation of the new regulation. Authors inter alia pinpoint dubious solutions of the Rome I proposal. In particular, proposed conflict of laws rules to the...

This paper aims to review the current law and economics debate of the issues that surround private international law disputes. There have been various attempts to explain various aspects of cross-border disputes between individuals. The existing theories tend to focus on efficiency...

A case comment of of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision in Dr. Seuss Enterprises LP v. ComicMix LLC, Hauman, Friedman and Templeton, Case No. 3:16-cv-02779-JLS-BGS (18 December 2020)

The main thesis of this article is that individuals should own their user-held data. Rapidly developing data processing technologies empowers individuals to collect their data from different sources and retain it in personal data clouds. Such user-held data represents the most accurate,...