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House of Terms: Fixing the Information Paradigm with Legal Design

Author: Rossana Ducato Download: http://www.rosels.eu/wp-content/uploads/Ducato_poster-1.pdf Citation: Ducato, Rossana (2018), House of Terms: Fixing the Information Paradigm with Legal Design. Poster presentation at BILETA Conference 2018 “Digital Futures: places and people, technology and data”, University of Aberdeen, 10-11 April 2018. Abstract How many times have we checked that box without reading the Terms of the Service (ToS)? […]

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Customer Ratings as a Vector for Discrimination in Employment Relations?

Authors: Rossana Ducato, Miriam Kullmann, Marco Rocca Download: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3141156 Citation: Ducato R., Kullmann M., Rocca M. (2018), Customer Ratings as a Vector for Discrimination in Employment Relations? Pathways and Pitfalls for Legal Remedies (January 31, 2018). Proceedings of the Marco Biagi Conference 2018. Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3141156 Abstract The use of customer ratings to evaluate worker […]

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ECJ, Case C-434/15, Asociación Profesional Elite Taxi: preliminary notes

Transport or information society service? That is the question   This post offers a preliminary analysis of the decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the case C-434/15 (Asociación Profesional Elite Taxi), which has ruled on the legal qualification of the activity performed by Uber. by Rossana Ducato and Enguerrand Marique   The […]

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France: First sanction of a short-term accommodation platform in application of the Digital Republic Law… and first extensions.

Judgment: Tribunal d’instance, 6ème arrondissement de Paris, 06 feb. 2018, n°RG11-17-000190. Context: The Digital Republic law (Law n°2016-1321, 6 October 2016) has created rules concerning platforms. Some of these rules are general, such as the obligation to provide loyal information to users (Consumption Code, art. L. 111-7), and others are more specific, such as the […]

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Lecture series on “The law of digital platforms” – First podcast available

In December 2017, the Center for Business Law of the Université catholique de Louvain (CRIDES-UCL) announced its participation to a joint lecture series on “The law of digital platforms”, together with the  Center for Legal Philosophy of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. These lectures (excluding the Q&A following) are published as podcast on Youtube. You […]

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Compte-rendu : Ubérisation et économie collaborative (Paris, 17.1.2018)

L’Institut de droit comparé de l’Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas accueillait le 17 janvier 2018 une conférence sur le thème : « Ubérisation et économie collaborative : évolutions récentes dans l’Union européenne et ses Etats Membres ». A. Turmo (Université de Nantes) et M. Baumgart (Université de Cologne et Université de Bâle) ont organisé cette conférence et l’ont placée […]

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Conference on The Platform Economy – lessons from ECJ ruling in Uber Systems Spain SL

Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union held that internet platform Uber does not merely provide an App: it offers a full transport service. Uber exercises a decisive influence over the conditions under which drivers provide their service: the price, the minimum safety conditions, the conduct of drivers and their exclusion from the […]

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Lecture series on “The Law of Digital Platforms”

The CRIDES (UCLouvain) and the Centre Perelman (ULB) organise a lecture series dedicated to “The Law of Digital Platforms” from February 6 to April 17 2018. The seminars will be held in French at ULB (campus Solbosch). The scope of the lecture series is to investigate the most prominent legal issues posed by digital platforms and their […]

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Uber law and awareness by design

Author: Guido Noto La Diega Download: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/27866/1/Guido-REDC.pdf Citation: Noto La Diega, Guido (2016) Uber law and awareness by design. An empirical study on online platforms and dehumanised negotiations. Revue européenne de droit de la consommation/ European Journal of Consumer Law, 2016 (II). pp. 383-413. ISSN 0775- 3209 Abstract This article sheds light on the main […]

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Digital Platforms: To Regulate or Not To Regulate?

Authors: Prof. Alain Strowel (UCL and USL-­‐B) with Prof. Wouter Vergote (USL-­‐B) Download: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/image/document/2016-7/uclouvain_et_universit_saint_louis_14044.pdf Responses to the Public Consultation on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy.First published on 25.05.2016. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/image/document/2016-7/uclouvain_et_universit_saint_louis_14044.pdf Abstract Digital platforms are playing an increasing role in the economy by allowing new entrants, including […]