" Sag, wo die Soldaten sind, Wo sind sie geblieben? So begann die dritte Strophe von Pete Seeger's legendärem Blumen-Lied. Wie sollte die bittere Melancholie seiner Lyrik zu dem "turn zu governance" passen, den die Europapolitik offiziös unter dem Kommissionspräsidenten Romano Prodi i.J. 2001...

It is perhaps a truism to note that 'the consumer' is but a role that is played by human subjects. This insight leaves us, as lawyers, with one vital question: how can or does the legal system meaningfully rationalise its encounters with the consumer? Can it, and if so to what way, shape the act...