Can the right legal framework meet the central challenges of digitization? This volume, edited by Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann, explores important new areas of law, the regulation of AI, the role of digital services, and the characteristics of effective technology policy and sensible innovation law.
Kettemann, Matthias C. (Hrsg.) (2025): Recht der Digitalisierung I. Herausforderungen der digitalen Governance in Wendezeiten. Dokumentation des 1. Österreichischen Digitalrechtstags 2025. [Law of Digitalization I. Challenges of Digital Governance in Times of Change. Documentation of the 1st Austrian Digital Law Day 2025]. (Series: Internet und Gesellschaft (IuG); 40), Mohr Siebeck. Available online under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
The entire volume has been published in German.
Summary
The digital world claims to connect us. The law, especially international law, is also seen as a means of pursuing common interests and then realizing them. However, both approaches are subject to criticism. The digital world is fragmenting, and states are building digital walls. Furthermore, the law is only partially fulfilling its promise to establish order and social cohesion in the digital age. Against this backdrop, this volume documents contributions to the 1st Austrian Digital Law Day. Experts in theory and practice analyze the need for new rights in a more digital and globalized world, where traditional instruments of power, borders, and state access are becoming less relevant, and new actors (digital companies) and instruments of power (algorithmic systems) are emerging. The experts demonstrate how the law continues to fulfill its role of safeguarding human rights, the rule of law, and democracy, even amid digital transformation.