The European Court of Justice's recent move to classify Uber as a transportation-services company attracted international headlines—yet it was a fairly straightforward, common-sense decision. What, then, made it so remarkable? It was one of the first high-level rejections of Silicon Valley...

Portuguese Abstract: O presente estudo busca dar um dos primeiros passos necessários para se discutir a regulação da economia compartilhada no Brasil, oferecendo um panorama da regulação incidente sobre ela, sem se restringir a um setor ou uma plataforma em específico, e demonstrando quais...

Platform economy breaks into the legal profession by pooling lawyers with different specializations into a simple user-friendly platform, consolidating the lower-tier supply side of the legal market and generating economy of scale. This paper is the very first empirical piece looking into...

Who do NGOs represent, and to whom should they be accountable? In this brief essay, I argue that most NGOs represent only themselves, if the term is defined according to its ordinary meaning in democratic politics. But that fact should not prevent NGOs from involvement in international security...

The country of origin principle requires states to apply different legal regimes to companies and persons according to their state of origin. This looks rather like nationality discrimination, contrary to Article 12 EC. It is also fundamentally at odds with one of the central pillars of...

In their new book, Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing, Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling charge that the regulatory use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) quot;gives us opaque and technical reasons to do the obviously wrong thing.quot; While they build the most...

Lawsuits have a deterrent effect, but this is mitigated if settlements are routine. Regulators and judges should consider that a firm contemplating predatory activity directed at financially unsophisticated individuals might have built an estimate of settlement costs into their analysis of the...

Clinicians, ethicists and lawyers have long debated the parameters of triage in response to the inevitable disasters that sporadically overwhelm the health care system. Almost universally, they have advocated for open, transparent and consultative triage protocols, guidelines and legislation to...

The purposes of financial regulation have traditionally been related to correcting market failure and maximizing market efficiency. This approach to public policy has been challenged by an approach that focuses on maximising public value rather than solely correcting market. This article...