Full Description
The exponential growth of disruptive technology is changing our world. The development of cloud computing, big data, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and other related autonomous systems, such as self-driving vehicles, have triggered the emergence of new products and services. These significant technological breakthroughs have opened the door to new economic models such as the sharing and platform-based economy. As a result, companies are becoming increasingly data- and algorithm-driven, coming to be more like "decentralized platforms". New transaction or payment methods such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, based on trust-building systems using Blockchain, smart contracts, and other distributed ledger technology, also constitute an essential part of this new economic model.
The sharing economy and digital platforms also include the everyday exchange of goods allowing individuals to commodify their surplus resources.Information and innovation technologies are used in order to then match these resources with existing demand in the market. Online platforms such as Airbnb, Uber, and Amazon reduce information asymmetry, increase the value of unused resources, and create new opportunities for collaboration and innovation. Moreover, the sharing economy is playing a major role in the transition from exclusive ownership of personal assets toward access-based exploitation of resources. The success of online matching platforms depends not only on the reduction of search costs but also on the trustworthiness of platform operators.
From a legal perspective, the uncertainties triggered by the emergence of a new digital reality are particularly urgent. How should these tendencies be reflected in legal systems in each jurisdiction? This book collects a series of contributions by leading scholars in the newly emerging fields of sharing economy and Legal Tech. The aim of the book is to enrich legaldebates on the social, economic, and political meaning of these cutting-edge technologies. The chapters presented in this edition attempt to answer some of these lingering questions from the perspective of diverse legal backgrounds.
Contents
Legal Aspects of Decentralized and Platform-Driven Economy (Marcelo Corrales, Toshiyuki Kono & Shinto Teramoto).- Building Platforms for Collaboration: A New Comparative Legal Challenge (Annelise Riles).- On the Governance of Sharing Cities: Lessons from the Sharing Economy in Seoul (Benjamen Gussen).- A Study of the Japanese Housing Accommodation Business Act (Act No. 65 of 2017), the First National Law in the World Legitimizing Home-sharing (Yuichiro Watanabe).- The Digital Person - A New Legal Entity? On the Role of Law in an AI-based Society (Cecilia Magnusson-Sjöberg).- Nudging Consent and Opt-out Rules to the Processing of Health Data in the UK (Janos Mészáros & Marcelo Corrales).- National Electronic Health Record Systems and Consent to Processing Health Data in the European Union and Australia (Danuta Mendelson).- Legal Education in a Digital Age: Why Coding Matters for the Law of the Future (Mark Fenwick, Wulf Kaal & Erik Vermeulen).- Reputation Protocol for the Internet ofTrust (Craig Calcaterra & Wulf Kaal).- Some Legal Issues Related to Blockchain Technology: Taking Some Examples from Korea (Gyooho Lee).- Lawyer's View on Autonomous Driving (Shinto Teramoto).- Adversarial Machine Learning: A Blow to the Transportation Sharing Economy (Steven van Uytsel & Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas).- The New EU Directive on the Protection of Trade Secrets and its Implementation (Thomas Hoeren).
