EU Product Liability Law: Platforms, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence

Preface

Part I: Product Liability: Legal fundaments, Novelties & Digital Services

1. The Product Liability Regime: An Historical Overview
Michel Cannarsa

2. The Implicit Theoretical Foundation of the Product Liability Regime in the Previous Directive and in the Reform
Eleonora Rajneri

3. New Products, New Risks, New Harms: Should Non-Material Harm Be Compensated under the Revised Product Liability Regime? A Critical Analysis in Light of the Regulatory Framework on Artificial Intelligence
Béatrice Schütte

4. Protecting Consumers Against Their Poison: Defects in Digital Content and Digital Services
Joasia Luzak

5. Incentives to Innovate, Litigation and the Ex-Post Product Liability of Online Platforms in the European Union
Mitja Kovač

6.Global Value Chains in a Platform Economy: The Role of Product Liability Rules
Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell

Part 2: Future-Proof Product liability: Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence

7. Medical Internet of Things for Rehabilitation Purposes. At a Crossroads between the New Product Liability Directive and the Former Artificial Intelligence Civil Liability Proposal
Francesca Gennari

8. By Design Regulation and Product Liability: The By Design Defectiveness
Silvia Martinelli

9. The New Product Liability Directive: Paving the Way for Follow-On Actions in Artificial Intelligence Law?
Martin Ebers

10. AI Liability and EU Harmonized Standards
Cristina Poncibò

11. Cybersecurity Landscape of Internet of Things Devices: A Comparative Perspective
Iain Nash

Part 3: Cybersecurity Issues for Products Liabilities Regulations

12. EU Products Cybersecurity, Liability and Consumer Protection
Pier Giorgio Chiara

13. Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence
Sergio Barezzani

14. The Biometric_On: On the (Dual) Use of Biometric Data in Migration and Asylum
Matteo Buffa

15. The EU Cybersecurity Landscape: Regulatory Architecture, Enforcement and the Road to a "Digital Omnibus"
Pierluigi Perri

Biography

Silvia Martinelli is a Fellow at the Turin Observatory on Economic Law and Innovation (TOELI), at the University of Turin, Italy, and a Fellow at the Information Society Law Center (ISLC) of the University of Milan and she obtained the Italian National Qualification for the role of Associate Professor in Private Law. Winner and coordinator of the JM Module “PLATFORMLAW - Platform & Data Economy European Legal Framework”.

Pierluigi Perri is an Associate Professor of “Information Security, Privacy and Protection of Sensitive Data” at the Law School, where he teaches “Data Protection, Law and AI” at the LLM in Human Centered Artificial Intelligence and “Cybersecurity and protection of personal data: legal and policies issues” at the LLM in Data Science and Economics of the University of Milan, Italy. Since 2017 he has been the Founder and Director of the postgraduate Course in “Data Protection and Data Governance” and “Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Platforms”.

Cristina Poncibò is a Full Professor of Comparative Private Law at the Department of Law of the University of Turin, Italy, and a Fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto. She has been appointed Scientific Director of the Master in International Trade Law at the University of Turin, Italy, in partnership with ITC-ILO, and in cooperation with Unci-tral and Unidroit. She regularly serves as a legal expert for European institutions, EU agencies, and international organisations. She is the author of more than 140 peer-reviewed academic and scientific publications.