Digital Technologies and the Law of Obligations

ISBN-13: 9780367512705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 220 str.

Zvonimir Slakoper; Ivan Tot

Opis

This book critically examines the emergence of new digital technologies and the challenges they pose to the traditional law of obligations, and discusses the extent to which existing contract and tort law rules and doctrines are equipped to meet these new challenges.

Spis treści

Table of cases; Table of legislation; Preface; Abbreviations; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: Contract and Tort Law in the Digital Age: Contemporary Challenges to the Law of Obligations; Part I: Digital Technologies and Other Contemporary Challenges in Tort Law; Chapter 2: Civil Liability of Internet Intermediaries for Illegal Online Content; Chapter 3: Sharing Economy as the Contemporary Challenge for the Law of Torts; Chapter 4: Rethinking Tort Law in the Corporate Group Situation; Chapter 5: Blockchain-Based Registration and Transfer of Shares: Consequences in the Area of Law of Obligations; Chapter 6: Liability for Artificial Intelligence; Part II: Contract Law Challenges Posed by Smart Contracts; Chapter 7: What are Smart Contracts? An Attempt of their Demystification; Chapter 8: The ‘Contracting Problem’ Revisited: Explaining the Formation of Algorithmic Contracts under the Common Law; Chapter 9: Addressing Contemporary Challenges in Contract Law through Millenary Concepts; Chapter 10: Smart Contracts and Evolution of Legal Perspective on Protection of Human Rights; Part III: Digital Contracts, Accounts, and Services; Chapter 11: How Terms of Service Agreements, as Contracts of Adhesion, Influence Users’ Digital Accounts, and Their Content?; Chapter 12: Online Peer-to-Peer Accommodation Services: The ECJ’s Judgment in Case C-390/18, Airbnb Ireland; Index