This article discusses the interplay of carrier and content regulatory layers in European internet law, how the 'Single Market' agenda informs and influences these layers and whether the proposed EU Connected Continent Regulation may solve some of the difficulties. The article starts with a...

This article discusses the latest cases at the EU Court of Justice involving cross-border electronic contracts and torts. The article concentrates on four cases: one decision, one AG opinion and two references. The cases concern three typical situations and their potential to trigger special...

This paper is a short overview of the changing paradigm of telecommunications regulation in both the EU and the US. The paper identifies three main regulatory paradigms: the 'natural monopoly' in the early days of the last century, the great liberalisation in the second half of 20th century and...

The article analyses how the EU regulates the Internet on the content (e-commerce, audio-video media services) and the carrier (telecoms networks and services) layers and argues that modern EU Internet regulation is fundamentally based on the principle of functional equivalence or regulating...

This article analyses the 2015 EU Digital Single Market Strategy from the perspective of strategic compliance. Although the purpose of the Strategy is to stimulate investment and increase certainty, this article argues that this will be difficult to achieve. This is a result of three factors....

This article is a short overview of the proposed EU Digital Services Act (DSA): its history, main features and its relation to both the existing laws (E-Commerce Directive) and is sister act (Digital Markets Act). The article looks at how DSA proposes to solve the problem of making internet...

The article looks at how telecommunications policy origins and developments as well as its dependance on the Single Market framework influenced the Internet. The article starts with a brief overview of EU policymaking in the area of telecommunications (Part I), attempts to explain the Single...

The paper explores the Digital Single Market, which seems to be invoked in almost all Internet related EU documents but is, in fact, a complex and confusing concept developed in different individual contexts by different Directorates General. The Digital Single Market-dimension in the EU is...