In its drive to prevent market failures and safeguard consumers, the European legislator has embraced the information approach. In the context of online trade, this requires online traders to disclose ever-growing amounts of information to consumers regarding contract terms, the handling of...

India’s e-commerce market is growing at a rapid pace. Online trade depends on pre-contract information notices to put traders and consumers on an equal footing and ensure that transactions are completed with valid consent and under fair terms. However, past research in Western jurisdictions...

The adoption of Artificial Intelligence is steadily increasing, but the underlying algorithms have become so complex that they are no longer transparent. The EU has introduced some modest AI transparency requirements as part of its General Data Protection Regulation. However, two years after...

Past research has shown that online information notices often fail to inform consumers well, even if transparency-enhancing measures are implemented. However, the studies in question have employed research designs that were restricted to pre-contract conclusion scenarios and ad hoc, text-only...

German Abstract: Informationspflichten sind seit Jahrzehnten ein fester Bestandteil des EU-Verbraucherrechts. Durch die stetig steigende Zahl von E-Commerce und Online-Verbraucherverträgen, nicht zuletzt infolge des Lockdown des stationären Einzelhandels während der COVID-19-Pandemie, ist die...

On October 11th 2011 the European Commission proposed a Common European Sales Law (CESL) for the European Union. One of the main aims of this optional instrument is to help businesses to avoid the complexity associated with dealing with multiple mandatory provisions of their customers' home...

Law is firmly established as an integral and independent component of most business and economics degree courses. The objective of this article is to examine the contents and teaching methods generally employed in the law courses required for degrees in business and economics. As a rule both the...

The aim of this study is to carry out an economic analysis of the consequences that arose following the decriminalization of the issuance of bad checks in Turkey. In our statistical analysis we examined the legal situation of bouncing checks in three periods: before 2009 when the issuance of bad...