When, at the end of 2007, the outline interim edition of the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) on European Contract Law was presented to the European Commission and at the beginning of 2008 to the European Parliament, the work of the joined network on European Private Law on the review of...

This research paper was conducted in anticipation of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation taking effect on the 25th May 2018. This research is carried out with the intent to discover if the new legislation has a significant impact on consumer rights and consumer...

European consumers are increasingly exposed to procedural mechanisms deriving from the EU. They are affected by two proceduralisation phenomena: generic developments within the policy of judicial cooperation in civil matters, and sectoral proceduralisation, which is the main focus of this...

People make mistakes with debt, partly because the chance to buy now and pay later tempts them to do things that are not in their long-term interest. Lenders sell credit products that exploit this vulnerability. In this Article, I argue that critiques of these products, particularly those that...

This is an introduction of future students of (European) consumer law to its main concepts, such as average and vulnerable consumers, unfairness, product risks. Upon reading you may expect to start being able to place this research area within the legal architecture of European Private Law. You...