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Point And Click: E-Commerce Consumer Protection In Italy, Marco Bassini

ILSU Working Paper Series

The paper contains an analysis of the efforts undertaken by the Italian legislator in the last few decades – spurred also by the enactment of European directives on the matter – to establish a progressively more precise, but ultimately stratified and precarious, regulatory framework with respect to a phenomenon in great expansion: electronic commerce, which offers a clear exemplification of the difficulties that characterize the complex relationship between law and technology.

Highlighting the immanent limits and problems with respect to the legislator’s choices, prominence has particularly been given to the difficulties arising from an obstinate application of general rules to …