Overview
Brings together a group of respected scholars to share cutting-edge perspectives on new topics in consumer law
Highlights potential new paradigms and directions for consumer law
Comprehensive yet accessible, combining national and international perspectives
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Consumers in a Digital Economy
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Innovations in Access to Justice
Keywords
- consumer law
- consumer protection
- international tourists as consumers
- artificial intelligence and consumption habit
- financial services and Over-indebtedness
- consumers behavioral economic analysis
- Right of Withdrawal
- ecommerce, sharing economy and consumer protection
- consumer redress and class actions
- ADR and consumer rights
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
James P. Nehf has been teaching contracts, consumer law, and commercial law subjects for more than twenty years. He is an internationally recognized expert in consumer privacy and financial services law and serves as an executive board member of the International Consumer Law Association, a global society of consumer law scholars and policymakers. He has won numerous teaching awards and has been a frequent speaker at law conferences, CLE seminars, and law-related lecture series. Professor Nehf was the Inaugural Director of the law school’s European Law Program and has held several university administrative positions, including a term as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the law school and as Interim Director of the Indiana University Center on Southeast Asia. Professor Nehf’s publications include several chapters in a leading commercial law treatise, Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code (where he now serves as principal author and editor), an updated and revised edition of Corbin on Contracts—The Impossibility Doctrine, a book on privacy law, Open Book: The Failed Promise of Information Privacy in America, and numerous other book chapters and articles on commercial law, consumer finance, privacy law, low-income consumer transactions, and international/comparative law subjects. He currently serves on the editorial board for the Markets and Law Series at Ashgate Publishing. Professor Nehf graduated first in his law school class, served as Editor-in-Chief of the North Carolina Law Review, and was elected to Order of the Coif. After law school, he worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and entered private practice with O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. Before joining the faculty in 1989, he was a partner in the Washington firm of Choate, Filler, & Nehf, specializing in commercial and consumer litigation. Professor Nehf has also taught as a Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University, Mercer University, and the University of Georgia.
Claudia Lima Marques is an expert in the fields of Consumer Law, Private Law, and both Private and Public International Law. Having earned her Bachelor of Law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, she went on to study a Masters of Law at the University of Tübingen and a Ph.D. summa cum laude at the University of Heidelberg. Currently, Titular Professor and Coordinator of the postgraduate Law Program of the Law School of UFRGS, Claudia holds a number of positions on national and international legal and consumer protection bodies. She has written and lectured extensively on private law, on conflicts of laws, over-indebtedness, and consumer law issues and has published articles in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, UK, and USA. Recently, she received two degrees of Doutor Honoris Causa from the Universidade Justus Liebig de Giessen of Germany and from Universidade de Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB) of France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovation and the Transformation of Consumer Law
Book Subtitle: National and International Perspectives
Editors: Dan Wei, James P. Nehf, Claudia Lima Marques
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8948-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Social Sciences Academic Press 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8947-8Published: 28 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8950-8Published: 29 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8948-5Published: 27 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 466
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Labour Law/Social Law, Commercial Law