Websites that interact with users and seek their consent to terms of use, privacy policies, and rights in content, have to present these terms and solicit consent in a manner that assures their adoption. It no longer suffices to merely post a link to these terms on the homepage.
This presentation demonstrates the legal standard for adoption of terms, typical mistakes made by designers of digital environments, and how to avoid them.
Speakers:
Dr. Omri Ben-Shahar, Leo and Eileen Herzel Professor of Law, Kearney Director of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics
Speaker's Bio:
Dr. Omri Ben-Shahar earned his PhD in Economics and SJD from Harvard in 1995 and his BA and LLB from the Hebrew University in 1990. Before coming to Chicago, he was the Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Michigan. Prior to that, he taught at Tel-Aviv University, was a member of Israel's Antitrust Court and clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel. He teaches contracts, sales, trademark law, insurance law, consumer law, e-commerce, food law, law and economics, and game theory and the law. He writes primarily in the fields of contract law and consumer protection. He is the co-author of More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure (Princeton 2014). Ben-Shahar is the Kearney Director of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics. He is the Co-Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Consumer Contracts. He also writes a biweekly column for Forbes.
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