{"id":8859,"date":"2024-12-01T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sectorplandls.nl\/wordpress\/?p=8859"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:48:33","slug":"rethinking-digital-vulnerability-raphael-gellerts-ecological-approach-to-contract-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sectorplandls.nl\/wordpress\/new-study\/rethinking-digital-vulnerability-raphael-gellerts-ecological-approach-to-contract-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Digital Vulnerability: Rapha\u00ebl Gellert&#8217;s Ecological Approach to Contract Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8859\" class=\"elementor elementor-8859\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5e4aa9c1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5e4aa9c1\" 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data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-466ccbd0\" data-id=\"466ccbd0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47d619c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"47d619c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In his latest blog post, <strong>Rapha\u00ebl Gellert<\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Private Law and ICT at Radboud University, delves into the concept of <em>digital vulnerability<\/em>, a notion widely accepted in the realms of data protection, e-commerce, product liability, and cybersecurity. Writing for the workshop on Social Justice and Private Law in Europe, Gellert critically examines how digital vulnerability and its associated concept, <em>digital fairness<\/em>, often perpetuate neoliberal ideals of market efficiency rather than challenging them.<\/p><p>Gellert proposes an alternative perspective through an <em>ecological approach to contract law<\/em>. 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