Navigating the (Legal) Challenges of the Artificial Intelligence Era: Intellectual Property, Competition Law and Corporate Law

Authors

Emanuela Arezzo (Editor), with contributions from a distinguished group of European scholars, including Silvia Scalzini, Benedetta Buzzelli, Andrea Pezzoli, Josef Drexl, Daria Kim, Nicola de Luca and Dario Latella.

ISBN: 9789403503004

Published: April 2026

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Kluwer Law International

Description

Navigating the (Legal) Challenges of the Artificial Intelligence Era is a timely and important book in which a distinguished group of European scholars investigates how law and policy are responding to the multifaceted disruptions brought about by AI, focusing on intellectual property, competition law and corporate law. As AI systems increasingly permeate corporate decision-making, consumer markets, research, education and cultural production, they offer unprecedented opportunities for innovation while simultaneously raising fundamental regulatory, ethical and legal challenges. Part of the Information Law Series, the volume gathers eleven chapters that examine where existing legal frameworks hold, where they strain and where reform is needed.

Key Features

• In-depth analysis across three connected domains: intellectual property, competition law and corporate law.
• Examines the role of patent protection in fostering sustainable and inclusive AI.
• Draws practical lessons from competition authorities' experience in digital markets.
• Considers AI innovation as a discovery procedure and the limits of competition law.
• Explores corporate governance questions, from digital shares to the board's role in AI oversight and internal controls.

Coverage

Intellectual property and AI; patentability and incentives for sustainable innovation; competition law and antitrust enforcement in digital markets; AI as a driver of innovation competition; corporate law, digital shares, internal controls and the responsibilities of the company's board in the age of artificial intelligence.

About the Editor

Emanuela Arezzo is a legal scholar specialising in intellectual property and competition law. She edits this collective volume in the Information Law Series, bringing together leading European academics and practitioners to map the legal frontier of artificial intelligence.

Table of Contents

The volume comprises eleven chapters spanning intellectual property, competition and corporate law. Selected chapters include:

• Towards a Sustainable and Inclusive AI: Is There a Role for Patent Protection? — Emanuela Arezzo & Benedetta Buzzelli
• AI and Antitrust: What Lesson from the Experience of the Italian Competition Authority in the Digital Markets? — Andrea Pezzoli
• AI Innovation Competition as a Discovery Procedure: The Role and Limits of Competition Law — Josef Drexl & Daria Kim
• The Introduction of Digital Shares in Italy: A Legal and Functional Analysis — Nicola de Luca
• Internal Controls and the Company's Board: The Role of AI — Dario Latella

Why buy this book?

It offers a rigorous, multi-disciplinary European perspective on the legal questions that matter most as AI reshapes innovation, markets and corporate governance. Ideal for academic and law-firm libraries building a current collection on AI, intellectual property and competition law.

Keywords

artificial intelligence law, intellectual property, competition law, corporate law, antitrust, patent protection, digital markets, AI regulation, corporate governance, information law

Target Audience

Legal scholars, intellectual property lawyers, competition and antitrust practitioners, corporate counsel, policymakers, academic and law-firm libraries, postgraduate researchers

Genre

Law, Intellectual Property Law, Competition Law, Corporate Law, Information Technology Law

Questions & Answers

How does competition law apply to AI in digital markets?
The book draws on the experience of competition authorities to show how antitrust analysis is being adapted to AI-driven conduct, and where the limits of competition law lie when AI functions as a discovery procedure for innovation.

Can AI-related inventions be protected by patents in Europe?
One chapter examines whether and how patent protection can incentivise sustainable and inclusive AI, addressing the tension between exclusive rights and broad access to foundational technologies.

What corporate-law questions does AI raise for company boards?
The volume analyses the board's responsibilities for internal controls and oversight when AI informs corporate decision-making, alongside emerging instruments such as digital shares.

Who should read this book?
Legal academics, IP and competition practitioners, corporate counsel and policymakers seeking a current European analysis of AI's impact on law.

Where can I buy Navigating the (Legal) Challenges of the Artificial Intelligence Era?
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