This paper provides a review and update of the ideas contained in a PhD dissertation that was authored by Australian lawyer Christine Burns in 2007, entitled 'Online Legal Services—A Revolution that Failed?'It explores several themes that are found in her…

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The EU Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC) provides an obligation for providers of publicly available electronic communications services and of public communications networks to retain traffic and location data for six months up to two years for the purpose of the…

This article explains why democracy and the important process of democratisation include but go beyond the ambit of the state and state laws, and how democracy and democratisation are both negotiated, contested, engaged with and made up by diverse state…

The paper presents a reflection on a legal framework of a three-dimensional virtual world. Here visualisation and symbolisation precede formalisation on the way to construction and legal knowledge representation. Thus the visualisation of virtual world issues can have a favourable…

In light of the myriad of regulatory challenges posed by the increasing availability of online gambling websites, there have, in recent years, been numerous calls for the reform of gambling regulation. This article explores certain key issues and regulatory challenges…

According to the European Court of Human Rights, the notification of individuals of surveillance measures is both an essential safeguard against the abuse of monitoring powers and an important part of the right to an effective remedy before the courts.…

The paper examines the protection reserved for free speech online and highlights the need to reiterate our conventional approaches in the light of digitisation. Namely, it is suggested that free speech adjudication should take into account the specific architectural traits…

Over the past decades, social sciences have gradually learned to use quantitative methods and computational tools. According to the emerging paradigm of  so called “computational social science” (CSS), the study of social phenomena is more and more often identified with…

Jurimetrics, the empirical study of the law, has never really come into existence. Although, given the way in which society has developed during the information age, it could have been expected that jurimetrics would become an important discipline, until now…