1st Edition
The Law of Global Digitality
Introduction: The Law of Global Digitality
Alexander Peukert and Matthias C. Kettemann
Part I: Intellectual Property
Chapter 1: Towards a Legal Methodology of Digitalisation – The Example of Digital Copyright Law
Thomas Riis and Jens Schovsbo
Chapter 2: Transnational Intellectual Property Governance on the Internet
Alexander Peukert
Part II: Data Protection/Privacy
Chapter 3: The More the Merrier – A Dynamic Approach Learning from Prior Misgovernance in EU Data Protection Law
Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann
Chapter 4: Hand a Relatively Free Hand: Data Privacy in the U.S. and the Unfortunate, but Lawful, Commodification of the Person
Ronald J Krotoszynski
Part III: Consumer Contract Law
Chapter 5: The Challenge of Globalized Online Commerce for U.S. Contract and Consumer Law
Christopher G. Bradley
Chapter 6: Paradigms of EU Consumer Law in the Digital Age
Felix Maultzsch
Part IV: Media Law
Chapter 7: Law of Digitality: Media Law – US Perspectives
Ellen P. Goodman
Chapter 8: European Media Law in Times of Digitality
Stephan Dreyer/Matthias C. Kettemann/Wolfgang Schulz/Theresa Josephine Seipp
Part V: Financial Regulation and Criminal Law
Chapter 9: Regulating Virtual Currencies
Roland Broemel
Chapter 10: Criminal Law Regulation of Global Digitality: Characteristics and Critique of Cybercrime Law
Beatrice Brunhöber
Conclusion: The Law of Global Digitality: Findings and Future Research
Matthias C. Kettemann and Alexander Peukert
Index
Biography
Matthias C. Kettemann, LL.M. (Harvard), is Professor of Innovation, Theory and Philosophy of Law at the Department for Theory and Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck, and heads research programs and groups on digital law and platform governance at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (Hamburg) and the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin).
Alexander Peukert is Professor of Civil and Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann, LL.M. (Georgetown University) holds the chair of Public and Administrative Law, especially Information Law, Environmental Law and Legal Theory at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main in Germany. She is also Director of the Research Institute on Data Protection, Managing Director of the Institute of European Health Politics and Social Law, both at Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, and also Principal Investigator with the Competence Center on IT-Security (KASTEL) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Professor Spiecker publishes in the entire field of constitutional and administrative law with a special focus on information law as well as technology law.
