The Transformation of Consumer Law and Policy in Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5099-6306-5
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

This book analyses the transformation of consumer law and policy in Europe from 4 perspectives: first, the temporal transformation, i.e., changes that can be tracked from the turn of the millennium; secondly, the substantive dimension, i.e., changes in the scope of the rights and remedies provided by consumer law, as well as the underpinning values; thirdly, the institutional dimension, i.e., changes in the role of national courts, national Parliaments, consumer agencies, and consumer organisations; and fourth, the procedural element, i.e., the shift from individual enforcement via courts to enforcement by public regulators, consumer associations, alternative dispute resolution, and the development of collective enforcement exercised by consumer agencies and/or consumer organisations.

With contributions by leading consumer law scholars from across Europe, this book is a fascinating account of how consumer law has often been shaped by national as much as European interests.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Micklitz, Hans-W.

Twigg-Flesner, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Schuldrecht Verbraucherschutz, Verbraucherverträge, AGB
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Transformation of Consumer Law and Policy in Europe

Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz and Christian Twigg-Flesner

General Issues

2. Consumer Organisations in Europe

Geraint Howells and Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz

3. How can consumer interests be protected when consumer identities are increasingly diffuse?

Vanessa Mak

4. Effective Judicial Protection, Private Enforcement and the Reshaping of Substantive Remedies

Charlotte Pavillon

5. Information Duties

Pascal Pichonnaz

6. Consumer Education in the EU

Elise Poillot

7. The growing Interplay of Consumer and Data Protection Law

Karin Sein

8. Can Consumer Law Become Sustainable?

Evelyne Terryn

Country-Specific Issues

9. Serbia: From Nothing to Something?

Mateja Durovic

10. Greece - A Tale of Two Acts

Eleni Kaprou

11. Croatia: Something from Nothing

Emilia Miscenic

12. Slovenia

Damjan Mozina

13. Germany: Who Transformed Whom?

Peter Rott

14. Czechia

Markéta Selucká and Jana Vábek Marková

15. How the Romanian Constitutional Court Highjacked Consumer Financial Protection

Catalin Gabriel Stanescu

16. United Kingdom Consumer Law: Incomplete Transformation

Christian Twigg-Flesner

Über Autor(innen)

Micklitz, Hans-W.
Hans W. Micklitz is Part-time Professor at the European Union Institute, Florence, Italy.

Twigg-Flesner, Christian
Christian Twigg-Flesner is Professor of Contract and Consumer Law at the University of Warwick, UK.

Hans-W Micklitz is Professor of Economic Law at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Christian Twigg-Flesner is Professor of Contract and Consumer Law at the University of Warwick, UK.