Legal (non)regulation of the company Airbnb

1 Abstract Thesis title: Legal (non)regulation of the company Airbnb This rigorosum thesis concentrates on the legal (non)regulation of the company Airbnb in the prism of the civil law. The thesis can be divided into four main parts: The first part is an analysis of the essential elements of a sharing economy (characteristics, definition, key concepts and history). The specification of the subjects of the sharing economy is presented in the second part of the thesis as: Airbnb as an intermediary, host as a service provider and guest as a service user. The conclusion indicates that the current legislation regulating Airbnb is not suitably applicable in practice and contains much ambiguity. The third chapter titled « Legal regulation » describes the fact that technical innovations entirely overtake and reshape the legal regulation today. The first part briefly mentions the legal regulation in theory and than recapitulates different approaches to the regulation in the world demonstrated, with the approach of the EU institutions to the sharing economy. In the last and very important part for me, de lege ferenda for Czech Republic and for EU considerations are presented. The main aims of this rigorous thesis are three: 1. To find a comprehensive analysis of principles of the sharing economy and understand its..