Disruption, Sharing Economy and Law

Matías Pérez del Castillo and Miguel Casanova participated in the work “Disruption, Shared Economy and Law”, together with prestigious colleagues specialized in various disciplines.The book addresses the role of Law in the emergence of businesses based on platforms, portals or virtual applications that gave rise to the phenomenon of the Shared Economy.There are several examples of services affected by this reality. In passenger transportation, the service provided through Uber competes with traditional taximeters. In domestic service for the home, that provided through Helping competes with domestic employees. Laundries face the service provided through FlyCleaners. Home delivery gastronomic services deal with Chefly, through which home cooks are offered. Etc.

Given these realities, in the introduction of the work, Gustavo Gauthier (coordinator) notes that the type of business that arises in the shared economy is generally located outside the scope of the state regulations under which businesses and companies operate. traditional companies. Identify three challenges. A first challenge faced by companies that are developing within the framework of the shared economy is linked to the difficulty of having to be governed by rules or norms of the most diverse nature, conceived for other types of realities or businesses and where they often There are perceived imbalances so important that they make them inapplicable in many cases.A second challenge lies in the necessary re-reading of the current legal system in light of the new reality, in order to determine to what extent the current regulations protect or are applicable to the activity of companies in the shared economy. The third challenge consists of determining whether the peculiarities of the shared economy do not make new and specific regulation of these activities necessary.The book proposes, from the perspective of the most diverse legal disciplines, an analysis of the challenges posed.The study from the perspective of Commercial Law is carried out by Dr. Miguel Casanova.The analysis of collective labor law will be carried out by Matías Pérez del Castillo.

The individual labor aspects are handled by Gustavo Gauthier, and the pension issues are handled by Professor Alvaro Rodríguez Azcúe. The analysis from the perspective of Computer Law is carried out by Professor María José Viega. The perspective from Public Law is addressed by Professor Jaime Sapolinski, which is complemented by the administrative perspective by Professor Cristina Vázquez. Finally, the analysis of the fiscal aspects is carried out by Dr. Florencia Tarrech.