This book pursues the questions from a broad range of law and economics perspectives. Digital transformation leads to economic and social change, bringing with it both opportunities and risks. This raises questions of the extent to which existent legal frameworks are still sufficient and whether there is a need for new or additional regulation in the affected areas: new demands are made on the law and jurisprudence.
Part I: Contracts in Digital Markets.- 1. Do Smart Contracts Incur
Higher Transaction Costs than Traditional Contracts?.- 2. Digitalizations
Big Promise and Peril: The Personalization of Insurance Contracts and its
Legal Consequences.- 3. Law Without Markets.- Part II: Digitalisation and the
Covid-19 Pandemic.- 4. Online Commercial Courts and Judicial Efficiency:
Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland.- 5. Tax Administration Toward
Digitalization in the COVID-19 Environment Case Study Bosnia and
Herzegovina: Law and Economics of e-Tax Administration Data.- Part III:
Copyright Law.- 6. Digitalization: On the Way to a New Copyright
Architecture?.- 7. A Digital Single Market, First Stop to the Metaverse:
Counterlife of Copyright Protection Wanted.- 8. Deepfakes, Copyright &
Personality Rights: An Inter-Disciplinary Perspective.- Part IV: Competition
Law.- 9. Innovation in High-Tech Mergers: Should Competition Law
Bother?.- 10. Innovation as a Competitive Constraint on Online Platforms in
European Competition Law: The Industry Life Cycle and Dominant Designs in
Digital Markets.- Part V: General and Global Perspectives.- 11. Rules and
Nudging as Code: Is This the Future for Legal Drafting
Activities?.- 12.Digital Transformation as a Reshaper of Global Trade
Law.- 13. Safeguarding Peace and Human Wellbeing for Future Generations Do
We Need a New UN Convention?.- Part VI: Specific Sectors.- 14. Digitalisation
of Banking and the Consumer Protection: The Regulation of Unauthorised
Payments from the Perspective of Institutional Law and Economics.- 15.
Regulation of Digital Agriculture A Law and Economics Perspective.
Klaus Mathis is a full professor of Public Law, Law of the Sustainable Economy, and Philosophy of Law at the University of Lucerne. He is the co-founder of the Center for Law and Sustainability (CLS) and the director for the Institute for Research in the Fundaments of Lawlucernaiuris. His particular fields of expertise are Swiss Constitutional Law, Law and Economics, Law of Sustainable Development, and Philosophy of Law.Avishalom Tor is a professor of Law and the director of the Notre Dame Research Program on Law and Market Behavior (ND LAMB). He is also a global professor of Law, University of Haifa Faculty of Law. His particular fields
