Consumer protection law

European consumer law has become a vital part of both legal education and practice.

'Disruptive innovation', 'the fourth industrial revolution', 'one of the ten ideas that will change the world'; the collaborative/sharing economy is shaking existing norms.

Consumer Bankruptcy and over-indebtedness is an emerging field throughout the world.

This book represents the fruit of a conference held in Oxford on March 3, 2006 under the auspices of the Institute of European and Comparative Law in the Oxford University Law Faculty.

This book seeks to enrich and, in some cases, reverse current ideas on corruption and its prevention.

This analysis of currents trends in financial regulation offers a roadmap for those countries considering adopting the Twin Peaks model.

This topical volume provides detailed analyses of European consumer protection law in both its theoretical and practical dimensions.

This book proposes a new way of thinking about the controversial and complex challenges associated with the regulation of high-cost credit, specifically payday lending.

This book brings together a series of contributions by leading scholars and practitioners to examine the main features of smart contracts, as well as the response of key stakeholders in technology, business, government and the law.

In a period when the nature and scope of the European internal market is hotly contested, this collection offers a topical analysis of the most pressing issues relating to market integration and public services in the EU.

Consumer Credit and the American Economy examines the economics, behavioral science, sociology, history, institutions, law, and regulation of consumer credit in the United States.

After a long period of prosperity and steady economic growth, the world's leading economies are now in crisis, and although there will be debate about its origins, the scale and seriousness of the crisis is in no doubt.

This concise updated collection of essential EU primary and secondary law effectively guides students to the material they need during exams.

This book examines how regulatory and liability mechanisms have impacted upon product safety decisions in the pharmaceutical and medical devices sectors in Europe, the USA and beyond since the 1950s.

This book provides an accessible introduction to selected new issues in transnational law, and connects them to existing theoretical debates on transnational business regulation.

With the advent of Conrad Black's new appeal, Steven Skurka is back to deliver a thorough, in-depth account of the controversial businessman's legal difficulties.

This book explores how the concept of fairness is used in different legal fields to ensure that the laws we live under are just and reasonable.

How do ordinary people access justice?

This topical volume provides detailed analyses of European consumer protection law in both its theoretical and practical dimensions.

The importance of services in the EU economy has increased exponentially in the last decades as have the number and scope of EU rules, both those liberalising the provision of services and those protecting their recipients or consumers - the passengers, patients, viewers and bank depositors.

This book examines how regulatory and liability mechanisms have impacted upon product safety decisions in the pharmaceutical and medical devices sectors in Europe, the USA and beyond since the 1950s.

When faced with tackling food-borne illness, regulators have a number of competing goals.

This book consists of contributions exploring from different perspectives the 'images' of the consumer in EU law.

This book provides an accessible introduction to selected new issues in transnational law, and connects them to existing theoretical debates on transnational business regulation.

Traditionally, consumer law has played an instrumental role in the EU as a tool for market integration.

In this Liber Amicorum, leading experts and old-time friends from around the world come together to pay tribute to Christopher Hodges' multifaceted career and work by exploring what can be done to deliver justice and fairness, focusing on collective redress, consumer dispute resolution, court system reform, ethical business regulation and regulatory delivery.

This book consists of contributions exploring from different perspectives the 'images' of the consumer in EU law.

This book provides a broad conspectus on the application of EU and international regulation of the food sector on English law.

This book charts the transformative shifts in techniques that seek to deliver collective redress, especially for mass consumer claims in Europe.

All modern legal systems with advanced economies must address the question of how to respond to the needs of insolvent consumers whose burden of debt greatly exceeds their capacity to repay within a reasonable time frame.

'Disruptive innovation', 'the fourth industrial revolution', 'one of the ten ideas that will change the world'; the collaborative/sharing economy is shaking existing norms.

This treatise is an early practical guide for remedies of creditors in proceedings instituted to convert equitable assets or to reach property fraudulently alienated or held under a secret trust for the debtor.

This concise updated collection of essential EU primary and secondary law effectively guides students to the material they need during exams.

Traditionally, consumer law has played an instrumental role in the EU as a tool for market integration.

How did industrialization drive the development of consumer rights and protections in the USA?

Food additives have been used since the beginning of time to enhance the quality and quantity of food products.

This book explores the complex landscape of costs and funding of civil justice.

This book proposes a new way of thinking about the controversial and complex challenges associated with the regulation of high-cost credit, specifically payday lending.

It is hard to believe that there was a time, not long ago, when there was no right to obtain government information, no protection against hazards in children's toys and other consumer products, no federal safety standards for motor vehicles, and no insurance to protect an investors' money and securities in brokerage accounts.

How mandated disclosure took over the regulatory landscape-and why it failedPerhaps no kind of regulation is more common or less useful than mandated disclosure-requiring one party to a transaction to give the other information.

Consumers routinely enter into long-term contracts with providers of goods and services - from credit cards, mortgages, cell phones, insurance, TV, and internet services to household appliances, theatre and sports events, health clubs, magazine subscriptions, transportation, and more.

It is hard to believe that there was a time, not long ago, when there was no right to obtain government information, no protection against hazards in children's toys and other consumer products, no federal safety standards for motor vehicles, and no insurance to protect an investors' money and securities in brokerage accounts.

How do ordinary people access justice?

This book looks at the consumer protection offered in a range of Asian countries, for example China, Japan, and South Korea in key areas such as consumer sales law, unfair terms, product liability, and unfair commercial practices.