Harmonizing Digital Contract Law. The Impact of EU Directives 2019/770 and 2019/771 and the Regulation of Online Platforms

“Harmonising Digital Law” has become a crucial task for European and national legislation in view of the challenges of the “digital revolution” for the European Union and for its Member States. The implementation of the 2019 “Twin Directives” on the sale of goods and the supply of digital content and services represents one of the most important steps on this path so far. In addition to the harmonisation of Member States law, the emergence of a uniform law of the EU is becoming more and more important with regard to the challenges of digitization, as recently shown in particular by the Internet Platform Regulation. In view of these changes at European and national level, 40 legal scholars from all Member States of the European Union have come together in this volume to examine the impact of European legislation on the development of private law in Europe. 27 country reports present the impact of the Twin Directives in the Member States on the basis of common questions. A number of other contributions analyse the overarching features of harmonisation, the contours and effects of legal unification with regard to the Internet Platform Regulation, and the further perspectives of EU legislation in face of digital and sustainability challenges.