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

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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