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Has the Battle Just Begun for Collective Action against Big Tech Companies?

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Julia H örnle, Professor of Internet Law, CCLS, Queen Mary University of London [1]. By contrast, courts in California and Canada have found a contractual jurisdiction and applicable law clause invalid as a matter of public policy in order to allow a class action privacy claim to proceed against Facebook. [6]

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 2/2022: Abstracts

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Wagner: European Conflict of Law 2021: The Challenge of Digital Transformation. It also refers to the laws enacted at the national level in Germany as a result of new European instruments. Furthermore, the authors look at areas of law where the EU has made use of its external competence. P Mansel/K.

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A call for the wider study of Private International Law in Africa: A Review of Private International Law In Nigeria

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Written by Orji Agwu Uka, Senior Associate at Africa Law Practice (ALP)*. This is the fifth and final online symposium on Private International Law in Nigeria initially announced on this blog. Those pieces of advice and legal representations would have benefitted greatly from a comprehensive private international law treatise.

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