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… stream 5: Digitalisation Digital technologies, justice, and regulation This research stream examines how digital technologies are affecting legal practices around the world, for ex- ample through legal chat bots, smart contracts, and the use of online mediation. It also studies how the law can be used to tackle issues and problems caused by digital technologies, such as abuses of private data, breaches of cybersecurity, and social media manipulation. It asks, moreover, how digital technologies can be used to study legal issues and promote access to law and justice, for example through big data analysis and the development of online legal platforms. Research on the effect of digital technologies on the law studies, for example, the impact of data-driven business models and the data economy on matters of ethics, priva- cy, intellectual property, taxation, accountability, …