LAW AND THE INTERNET. Ed by Lilian Edwards and Charlotte Waelde Oxford: Hart Publishing (www.hartpub.co.uk), 3rd edn, 2009. il + 713 pp. ISBN 9781841138152. £30.

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AuthorAndrew Murray
DOI10.3366/elr.2010.0319
Published date01 September 2010
Date01 September 2010
Pages537-539

Reviewing this book is a complicated task. This is the third edition of the book in its current form but in the intervening years between the second edition (2000) and this edition a step-sibling publication appeared, Lilian Edwards (ed), The New Legal Framework for E-Commerce in Europe (Oxford, 2005). It is clear though that the current book is the first new edition of the wider examination of all aspects of Internet Law by these editors since the second edition in 2000, a temporal gulf in the field of Internet Law (a fact acknowledged by the editors in the preface) and a time during which the subject has changed beyond all recognition. It is no surprise therefore to find the book has increased considerably in size across the three editions. The first edition, in 1997, was 264 pages; the second edition 396 pages while in its current form it takes 713 pages to deal with the complexities of the expanding nature of internet law. The number of chapters (and therefore subjects covered) has expanded from fourteen chapters in the second edition to a much beefier twenty-one in this edition.

But bigger does not always mean better. This book has always been seen...

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