<div dir="ltr"><span class=""><strong>Date:</strong></span>
        Thursday 18 February 2016
<span class=""><strong>Time:</strong></span>
5:30PM
to
6:30PM
<span class=""><strong>Venue: </strong></span>
        
Moot Court, TD120,
Hawthorn Campus
<strong>Cost:</strong>Free
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
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<p>Discuss the economic case for online platform regulation from AirBNB to Uber. <strong>Join</strong>
Assistant Professor Orla Lynskey from the London School of Economics in
the latest Centre for Transformative Innovation and Law School Research
Seminar held in the Swinburne Moot Court (TD120).</p>
<h2>Regulating online platforms: From AirBNB to Uber</h2>
<p>Definitions of an online ‘platform’ is the first stumbling block in
the regulation of online platforms. No coherent definition of this
concept exists.</p>
<h3>The economic case for platform regulation</h3>
<p>Orla suggests that the economic evidence to support regulation is
inconclusive. Parallels may be drawn between this debate and previous
discussions on mandated access regimes in network industries.</p>
<p>This seminar will discuss the grounds on which regulatory
intervention may be justified, drawing on internet gatekeeper theory.
Orla will present an assessment about whether online platform issues
might be better tackled through a wider regulatory framework, rather
than through technology specific regulation.</p>
<h2>About the speaker</h2>
<p>Orla Lynskey is an Assistant Professor of Law at the London School of
Economics. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of data
protection, technology regulation, digital rights and EU law. She holds a
PhD from the University of Cambridge. Orla’s PhD research focused on
the Foundations of EU Data Protection Law, and recently has been
published by OUP. She is an editor of International Data Privacy Law
(OUP) and the European Law Blog, and is a member of the Editorial Board
of the European Data Protection Law Review.</p>
<em>This research seminar is brought to you by the <a href="http://www.swinburne.edu.au/business-law/schools/swinburne-law-school/" target="_blank">Law School</a> and <a href="http://www.swinburne.edu.au/business-law/research/transformative-innovation/index.html" target="_blank">Centre for Transformative Innovation</a>. Join our monthly seminar series usually held on a Thursday, 12pm-1pm, check the <a href="http://www.swinburne.edu.au/business-law/" target="_blank">Faculty of Business and Law</a> events for future seminars. </em></div>