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[ecrea] new book: Private Power, Online Information Flows & EU Law

Wed Jan 11 14:52:30 GMT 2017



I am delighted to announce that my book, Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap has just been published by Hart: http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/private-power-online-information-flows-and-eu-law-9781509900657/ <http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/private-power-online-information-flows-and-eu-law-9781509900657/>

_Launch event_
It will be officially launched in central London (50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP) on Tuesday 31 January (6-8pm) with Chris Marsden (Sussex) and Orla Lynskey (LSE) as discussants. Attendance is free, but please RSVP to (emma /at/ hartpub.co.uk)

_Description_
This monograph examines how European Union law and regulation address concentrations of private economic power which impede free information flows on the Internet to the detriment of Internet users' autonomy. In particular, competition law, sector specific regulation (if it exists), data protection and human rights law are considered and assessed to the extent they can tackle such concentrations of power for the benefit of users. Using a series of illustrative case studies, of Internet provision (including the net neutrality debate), search, mobile devices and app stores, and the cloud, the work demonstrates the gaps that currently exist in EU law and regulation. It is argued that these gaps exist due, in part, to current overarching trends guiding the regulation of economic power, namely neoliberalism, by which only the situation of market failure can invite ex ante rules, buoyed by the lobbying of regulators and legislators by those in possession of such economic power to achieve outcomes which favour their businesses. Given this systemic, and extra-legal, nature of the reasons as to why the gaps exist, solutions from outside the system are proposed at the end of each case study.
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_Endorsement_
'This is a richly textured, critically argued work, shedding new light on case studies in information law which require critical thinking. It is both an interesting series of case studies (notably cloud computing, app stores and search) that displays original and deeply researched scholarship and a framework for critiquing neoliberal competition policy from a prosumerist and citizen-oriented perspective.' - Professor Chris Marsden, University of Sussex


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