European Consumer Protection - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-viii

Preface

pp ix-xii

Part I - Consumer protection strategies and mechanisms in the EU

pp 1-120

1 - From minimal to full to ‘half’ harmonisation

pp 3-5

2 - Comment: the future of EU consumer law – the end of harmonisation?

pp 6-20

3 - Two levels, one standard? The multi-level regulation of consumer protection in Europe

pp 21-42

4 - A modernisation for European consumer law?

pp 43-63

5 - Effective enforcement of consumer law: the comeback of public law and criminal law

pp 64-81

6 - E-consumers and effective protection: the online dispute resolution system

pp 82-98

7 - Unfair terms and the Draft Common Frame of Reference: the role of non-legislative harmonisation and administrative cooperation?

pp 99-120

Part II - Conceptualising vulnerability

pp 121-236

8 - The definition of consumers in EU consumer law

pp 123-142

9 - Recognising the limits of transparency in EU consumer law

pp 143-163

10 - The best interests of the child and EU consumer law and policy: a major gap between theory and practice?

pp 164-201

11 - Protecting consumers of gambling services: some preliminary thoughts on the relationship with European consumer protection law

pp 202-236

Part III - Contextualising consumer protection in the EU

pp 237-434

12 - Consumer protection and overriding mandatory rules in the Rome I Regulation

pp 239-256

13 - Determining the applicable law for breach of competition claims in the Rome II Regulation and the need for effective consumer collective redress

pp 257-281

14 - Horse sales: the problem of consumer contracts from a historical perspective

pp 282-299

15 - The role of private litigation in market regulation: beyond ‘legal origins’

pp 300-312

16 - Advertising, free speech and the consumer

pp 313-335

17 - Are consumer rights human rights?

pp 336-353

18 - Consumer protection in a normative context: the building blocks of a consumer citizenship practice

pp 354-377

19 - Recommended changes to the definitions of ‘auction’ and ‘public auction’ in the proposal for a directive on consumer rights

pp 378-396

20 - Consumer law regulation in the Czech Republic in the context of EU law: theory and practice

pp 397-411

21 - Resistance towards the Unfair Terms Directive in Poland: the interaction between the consumeracquisand a post-socialist legal culture

pp 412-434

Part IV - Conclusions

pp 435-449