Overview
- Offers an in-depth, comparative analysis of consumer information models applied in countries located in various continents
- Assesses how the behavioral sciences’ critiques on the existing information paradigm are received in legal orders with different legal traditions
- Presents a topical, comparative analysis of recent developments in consumer law in Europe and beyond, with a focus on information obligations
Part of the book series: Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law (GSCL, volume 33)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Report
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National Reports: European Union
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National Report: Euro-Asian Region
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National Reports: Asia
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National Reports: North and South America
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About this book
This book focuses on recent developments in consumer law, specifically addressing mandatory disclosures and the topical problem of information overload. It provides a comparative analysis based on national reports from countries with common law and civil law traditions in Asia, America and Europe, and presents the reports in the form of chapters that have been drafted on the basis of a questionnaire, and which use the same structure as the questionnaire to allow them to be easily compared.
The book starts with an analysis of the basic assumptions underlying the current consumer protection models and examines whether and how consumer models adapt to the new market conditions. The second part addresses the information obligations themselves, first highlighting the differences in the reported countries before narrowing the analysis down to countries with a general pre-contractual information duty, particularly the transparency requirements that often come withsuch a duty. The next part examines recent developments in the law on food labelling, commercial practices and unfair contract terms in order to identify whether similar traits can be found in European and non-European jurisdictions. The fourth part of the book focuses on specific information obligations in the financial services and e-commerce sectors, discussing the fact that legislators are experimenting with different forms of summary disclosures in these sectors. The final part provides a critical appraisal of the recent developments in consumer information obligations, addressing the question of whether the multiple criticisms from behavioural sciences necessitate abandonment or refinement of current consumer information models in favour of new, more adequate forms of consumer protection, and providing suggestions.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Gert Straetmans is full professor at the faculty of law of the University of Antwerp. He teaches European economic, consumer and commercial law. He served as Dean of the Law Faculty (2008-2012) and is a member of the Research Group on the Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group). He was the Belgian expert involved in the European Consumer Compendium Group (2006-2013), and participated as senior expert in various research projects financed by the European Commission (most recently the update of the Consumer Law Database). He is senior fellow of the Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität zu Bonn, associate-member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and a member of the European Law Institute, Vienna. He has a longstanding expertise in commercial/economic law, competition law, European substantive law and (European) consumer law. He lectured at the Universities of Bonn, Hong Kong, Leyden, Pretoria and Toulouse I Capitole. He is the author of numerous publications in the fields of EU Law and Belgian Commercial and Consumer Law.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Information Obligations and Disinformation of Consumers
Editors: Gert Straetmans
Series Title: Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18054-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18053-9Published: 20 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18056-0Published: 20 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18054-6Published: 05 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2214-6881
Series E-ISSN: 2214-689X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 561
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Commercial Law, Customer Relationship Management