Regulation is almost a synonym for public law. Government, relying on its sovereign powers, intervenes into freedom for … the sake of social betterment. Reality less and less coincides with this traditional picture. Regulation is increasingly … protectees. Constitutional doctrine treats private regulation as an exercise of freedom. The interest of protectees in good …

this work is attracted by the global character of the Internet. Admittedly this is a serious challenge to regulation. But …

competition might produce efficiency benefits that justify yielding federal or harmonized regulation in favor of decentralizing … economic coordination to their own liking, thus incorporating the preferences of consumers into the structure of regulation (a … instances and conditions under which regulatory competition might indeed work to improve the intrinsic efficiency of regulation …

state with non-state inputs, and using soft forms of governance, not command and control regulation. Against this background …

a way out. In the area of content regulation, transnational conflict is no less pronounced. The Europeans are … opportunity cost seems too high. The more important difference between data protection and content regulation thus turns out to be … typically is a one-to-one conflict, while in content regulation the typical conflict is of a one-to-many nature. In public goods …