Sharing economy in Italy: a private law perspective

The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with an overview of Italian legal landscape, especially the private law partition of it, concerning the so called “Sharing economy”. In order to achieve this result, we will explore some definition at the beginning, definitions that are the key to a further legal and economical taxonomy (basically concerning platform economy). Once we will be done with these preliminary issues, we will check the challenges that the most successful and established business models - Airbnb and Uber – pose to the Italian system. Before drafting some, necessarily interlocutory conclusion, given the fast pace of change of this legal and economical sector, we will sketch most recent Italian regulations that are emerging from the FinTech sector.