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The law of privacy has developed rapidly over the course of the last two decades as a result not only of technological developments, but also rapid social change. Simultaneously the courts have been asked with increasing frequency to determine the

Elgar Law’s Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries is the latest addition to its growing Research Handbook series and provides a whistle-stop tour of the interaction between intellectual property (“IP”) and the “Creative Industries”. For the purposes of

Blockchains, distributed ledger technologies, bitcoins and peer-to-peer networks have reignited old debates and arguments about the implications of decentralisation for social, economic and political ordering. Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code sets out to map the landscape of

After a phenomenal bestseller Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think,[1] Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, continues his inquiry into contemporary technological issues. In this new book, Reinventing Capitalism in the

In this new edition to Edward Elgar Publishing’s “Research Handbooks in European Law” series, Tamara Hervey, Calum Young, and Louise Bishop, all of Sheffield Law School, bring together a panoply of leading EU legal scholars who unpack different aspects of

Can we fully represent cognitive legal processes through computational models? This is perhaps one of the most complex yet fascinating questions experts in the area of legal artificial intelligence are trying to solve. In this context, Kevin Ashley’s Artificial Intelligence

The democratic project is to globalize democracy as we have globalized the economy; to democratize the globalism that has been so efficiently marketized.[1] Digital Democracy in a Globalized World (Digital Democracy) is an edited collection of essays which is the

The Legal Challenges of Social Media is the outcome of a research collaboration led by Lorna Gillies and David Mangan at Leicester University’s School of Law in December 2013. Broadly, the research topics in this collection cover contemporary problems of

Federica Giovanella, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Private Comparative Law at the University of Trento, has published her first solo monograph, an investigation of the “thorny issue” of how lower courts balance the users’ right to informational privacy with the rights

…where a man has purchased an article he expects to have control of it, and there must be some clear and explicit agreement to the contrary to justify the vendor in saying that he has not given the purchaser his