European consumer protection : theory and practice /
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Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. |
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Description: | xii, 462 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8786718 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Consumer protection strategies and mechanisms in the EU
- 1. From minimal to full to 'half harmonisation
- 2. Comment: the future of EU consumer law - the end of harmonisation?
- 3. Two levels, one standard? The multi-level regulation of consumer protection in Europe
- 4. A modernisation for European consumer law?
- 5. Effective enforcement of consumer law: the comeback of public law and criminal law
- 6. E-consumers and effective protection: the online dispute resolution system
- 7. Unfair terms and the Draft Common Frame of Reference: the role of non-legislative harmonisation and administrative cooperation?
- Part II. Conceptualising vulnerability
- 8. The definition of consumers in EU consumer law
- 9. Recognising the limits of transparency in EU consumer law
- 10. The best interests of the child and EU consumer law and policy: a major gap between theory and practice?
- 11. Protecting consumers of gambling services: some preliminary thoughts on the relationship with European consumer protection law
- Part III. Contextualising consumer protection in the EU
- 12. Consumer protection and overriding mandatory rules in the Rome I Regulation
- 13. Determining the applicable law for breach of competition claims in the Rome II Regulation and the need for effective consumer collective redress
- 14. Horse sales: the problem of consumer contracts from a historical perspective
- 15. The role of private litigation in market regulation: beyond legal origins'
- 16. Advertising, free speech and the consumer
- 17. Are consumer rights human rights?
- 18. Consumer protection in a normative context: the building blocks of a consumer citizenship practice
- 19. Recommended changes to the definitions of 'auction' and 'public auction' in the proposal for a directive on consumer rights
- 20. Consumer law regulation in the Czech Republic in the context of EU law: theory and practice
- 21. Resistance towards the Unfair Terms Directive in Poland: the interaction between the consumer acquis and a post-socialist legal culture
- Part IV. Conclusions
- 22. European consumer protection: theory and practice
- Index