Matchmakers published in Chinese – Vanessa Yanhua Zhang, Global Economics Group Click here for a pdf version of this article.   Platform economy has become the new norm in…

By Julie E. Cohen (Georgetown University) Abstract:     This article explores patterns of legal-institutional change in the emerging, platform-driven economy. Its starting premise is that the platform is not simply…

By Eleonora Rosati (University of Southampton) Abstract:     In its 2017 judgment in The Pirate Bay (C-610/15) the CJEU developed further its construction of the right of communication to the…

By Orla Lynskey (London School of Economics) Abstract:    Increasing regulatory and doctrinal attention has recently focused on the problem of ‘platform power’. Yet calls for regulation of online platforms…

By Joshua D. Wright (George Mason University) Abstract:     In a 2015 article co-authored with three Yelp employees, Professor Wu purports to examine evidence from one experiment allegedly relevant to…

By Tingting Nian (University of California), Liangfei Qiu, Jingchuan Pu & H. Kenneth Cheng (University of Florida) Abstract:      In the past decade, we are witnessing an explosive growth…

By Ryan Calo (University of Washington) & Alex Rosenblat (Data & Society Research Institute) Abstract:     Sharing economy firms such as Uber and Airbnb facilitate trusted transactions between strangers on…

By David S. Evans – Between September 2014 and September 2016 high courts in multiple jurisdictions released five decisions that address applying competition law to matchmakers that operate virtual or…

By Adrian Todolí-Signes (University of Valencia) Abstract:     The Digital era has changed industrial relationships dramatically and this has caused a considerable degree of legal uncertainty about which rules apply…

By Neil M. Richards (Washington University) & Woodrow Hartzog (Samford University) Abstract:      It can be easy to get depressed about the state of privacy these days. In an…

By Jens Prufer (Tilburg University) & Christoph Schottmüller (University of Copenhagen) Abstract:     This paper studies competition in data-driven markets, that is, markets where the cost of quality production is…

By Peter S. Menell (University of California) Abstract:      After a decade of bruising legal battles, the courts and software industry norms largely resolved the costly war over the…