E-raamat: Conflict of Laws and the Internet: Second Edition

In a nutshell, the book makes an outstanding contribution to the literature at the confluence of Internet Law and Private International Law. It masterfully compiles clear and complete analysis of the legal domains where the interaction between the two areas has been most controversial. -- Marta Pertegįs Sender, Maastricht University and University of Antwerp, the Neltherlands It is fair to announce in advance that Professor De Miguel surprises us again. If the 1st edition published in 2020 constituted a herculean effort to synthesize from a comprehensive perspective a still adolescent subject where, based on an academic vision of both private international law and intellectual property, the difficulties of adapting its postulates to the new digital world were highlighted, this 2nd edition goes much further and is even more complete. First, because it enshrines the conviction that European sources clearly engulf domestic ones on the construction of a system designed to provide answers to both intra-European and extra-European situations derived from online activities. Second, because it shows that in just four years the adolescent has become an adult and the number of complex issues has also multiplied exponentially, which may make advisable in the future to continue the effort including de lege ferenda considerations. And third, because the result is magnificent and becomes a magisterial treatise on the treatment of the EU private international law of the Internet. -- Manuel Desantes Real, Spanish Yearbook of International Law This book takes a notoriously diffuse topic and condenses it into a manageable and very readable text. It does so not by ignoring the complexity of conflict of laws or by avoiding the variety of laws at play in internet-based disputes. Instead, it offers readers coherent guidance by linking comprehensive analysis of doctrine with a solid theoretical foundation. -- Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent College of Law, US This valuable book explores and explains the Internet from a private international law and international litigation perspective. It addresses the legal foundations, digital services, data and privacy protection, IP rights and transactions and services related to data transfers. This book takes up the latest development in the field and provides invaluable guidance for the upcoming years. Pedro de Miguel Asensio addresses all aspects of cross-border data flows. I heartily recommend this valuable treatise. -- Burkhard Hess, University of Vienna, Austria Acclaim for the first edition: This book exudes the best of (continental) European tradition. Evidently, De Miguel Asensio is aspiring at comprehensiveness. Given the multi-faceted nature of the general topic, this is a Heraklean task. It requires a delicate balance between structure and detail, between breadth and depth. Can there be a better praise than to conclude that this aim has been fully accomplished in this magisterial book? -- Peter Mankowski, Zeitschrift für das Privatrecht der Europäischen Union This book is an excellent read for anyone interested in the private international law issues implicated by online activities, both those concerning intellectual property rights and other legal regulations. It provides a rigorous analysis of conflicts of law issues concerning the internet, with particular attention to EU law. -- Thomas Key, The IPKat ...a comprehensive book on the Conflict of Laws and the Internet which touches upon all fields of IP and related areas of law, including data protection and, of course, contracts. The result is astonishing and every scholar interested in this field will find this a worthwhile read. -- Moritz Sutterer, GRUR International: Journal of European and International IP Law This is an indispensable book for practitioners and scholars in this area of European Union Law. . . Conflict of Laws and the Internet will not only allow the reader to obtain a clear understanding of private international law issues of digital business, but also to understand how this field of law is mutating to fulfil its traditional aims'. -- Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella, EU Law Live