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Blockchain, formally referred to as a distributed ledger technology and known particularly for its cryptocurrency application, has been recently described as the most disruptive technology in decades.[1]  Although it may sound over-hyped, this technology which began to emerge rapidly in

In 2020, the world fell into chaos. The Covid-19 pandemic affected over 200 countries and territories around the world – essentially, every country and territory from all corners of the earth (Antarctica notably excepted) – and particularly devastated Europe. At

1       Investigating Cybercrime Oerlemans’ Investigating Cybercrime (PhD study) is a volume in the series of the Meijers Research Institute and Graduate School of the Leiden Law School and part of the Law School’s research programme ‘Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights

One quality of a good scholarly work, I believe, is the ability to engage the reader with effective dialogues raising interests around the main research question, and then guiding the reader to the conclusion that they would have naturally come

At a critical time when the idea of Privacy by Design (PbD) is on the rise, many readers would, like me, be attracted by this book, Privacy’s Blueprint (“Blueprint” hereinafter), provisionally assuming it to be a timely survey of PbD’s

There is often a perceived gap between the principles of contract law as stated in textbooks and the business realities of how contracts are entered into and projects managed and delivered. The authors of IT Contracts and Dispute Management: a

The emergence of “cryptoassets” has inspired a voluminous body of scholarship produced by authors from different backgrounds and levels of understanding. Within this universe, when one looks for works on the regulation and legal nature of these innovations, one will

Big Data, which can be defined as “high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making”,[1]  has been a hot topic in a variety of disciplines (e.g. computer science,

Global health law is an emerging subdiscipline within law that is concerned with the study of how law, broadly defined, can impact negatively or positively the health of populations across the globe. As is the case with the term “global

In 2018 we “commemorated” the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an event that has been a source of inspiration for a myriad of academic works on topics relating to the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), lending disruption, financial