Enforcing Private Regulation in the Platform Economy

The book focuses on online platforms as the out-of-state regulators of social and economic issues. The analysis embraces regulatory schemes created by platforms and the interrelation between them and the state's supervision and enforcement. The volume consists of three parts: first, the foundational issues of private regulation in the entire platform economy or in its substantial parts; second, the cross-sectoral questions of platforms' private regulation, such as the enforcement of rules created by platforms under EU contract law, and the 'internal' vs. 'external' enforcement of platform regulatory frameworks; and third the judicial, doctrinal and policy discourses addressing the enforcement of the rules created by platforms in selected EU Member States. The authors seek to provide a broad outline of overlapping issues in the platforms' self-regulation and the various responses adopted in various jurisdictions.Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz: Introduction - Mateusz Grochowski/Federica Casarosa: Enforcing private regulation: the challenges of platform economy

Part 1 - Out-of-State Regulation in the Platform Economy
Giovanni De Gregorio/Pietro Dunn: Online platforms as private regulators - Friederike Bahl: Theorising Platform Regulation, A Sociological Account Between Private and Public Governance - Katarzyna Łakomiec: Public law and co-regulation. Influence of human rights discourse on internet platforms' standard of privacy protection - Mateusz Grochowski: Online platforms and the shadow contract law

Part 2 - Enforcing platforms rules - horizontal perspectives
Marta Cantero Gamito: Enforcing private regulation in the platform economy - Costanza Di Francesco Maesa: Digital platforms and vulnerable users - Claudia Schubert/Johannes Ipsen: Enforcement by labour platforms - Federica Casarosa: Internal mechanisms of control between fully automated systems and human in the loop - Barbara Warwas: Dispute Resolution within Online Platforms: In search of the regulatory paradigm and Systematic function of dispute resolution in the digital platform economy

Part 3 - Enforcing platforms rules - domestic perspectives
Michael Denga: Germany - Dianora Poletti †/Federica Casarosa Italy - Sara Migliorini/Constance Bonzé: France - Paul Verbruggen/Eric Tjong Tjin Tai: Netherlands - Joana Campos Carvalho: Portugal