Handbook of Research on International Consumer Law

Geraint Howells, Iain Ramsay, Thomas Wilhelmsson, David Kraft (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

608 Seiten

2011
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-85793-890-9 (ISBN)

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Consumer law and policy has emerged in the last half-century as a major policy concern for all nations. This Handbook of original contributions provides an international and comparative analysis of central issues in consumer law and policy in developed and developing economies.The Handbook encompasses questions of both social policy and effective business regulation. Many of the issues are common to all countries and are becoming increasingly globalised due to the growth in international trade and technological developments such as the Internet. The authors provide a broad coverage of both substantive topics and institutional questions concerning optimal approaches to enforcement and the role of class actions in consumer policy. It also includes comparative insights into the influential EU and US models of consumer law and relates consumer law to contemporary trends in human rights law. Written by a carefully selected group of international experts, this text represents an authoritative resource for understanding contemporary and future developments in consumer law. This Handbook will provide students, researchers and policymakers with an insight to the main policy debates in each context and provide models of legal regulation to assist in the evaluation of laws and the development of consumer law and policy.

Edited by Geraint Howells, University of Galway, Ireland, Iain Ramsay, Professor of Law, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK and Thomas Wilhelmsson, Professor Emeritus of Civil and Commercial Law and Chancellor Emeritus, University of Helsinki, Finland with David Kraft, formerly of Manchester University, UK

Contents:

Preface

1. Consumer Law in its International Dimension
Geraint Howells, Iain Ramsay and Thomas Wilhelmsson

2. Consumer Protection and Human Rights
Iris Benöhr and Hans-W. Micklitz

3. Development and Consumer Law
Sothi Rachagan

4. The Consumer and Competition Law
Angus MacCulloch

5. Misleading and Unfair Advertising
James P. Nehf

6. Protecting Rational Choice: Information and the Right of Withdrawal
Christian Twigg-Flesner and Reiner Schulze

7. Unfair Terms and Standard Form Contracts
Thomas Wilhelmsson and Chris Willett

8. Sales and Guarantees
Cynthia Hawes and Christian Twigg-Flesner

9. Products Liability Law in America and Europe
Geraint Howells and David G. Owen

10. Product Safety Regulation
Luke Nottage

11. Consumers and Services of General Interest
Peter Rott and Chris Willett

12. Consumer Protection and the Internet
Patrick Quirk and John A. Rothchild

13. Regulation of Consumer Credit
Iain Ramsay

14. Personal Insolvency
Johanna Niemi

15. Financial Services Regulation and the Investor as Consumer
Dimity Kingsford Smith

16. Individual Consumer Redress
Peter Spiller and Kate Tokeley

17. Using Class Actions to Enforce Consumer Protection Law
Deborah R. Hensler

18. Enforcing Consumer Protection Laws
Colin Scott

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.8.2011
Reihe/Serie	Research Handbooks in International Law series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Besonderes Schuldrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-85793-890-8 / 0857938908
ISBN-13	978-0-85793-890-9 / 9780857938909
Zustand	Neuware