This edited volume covers the challenges currently faced by consumer law in Europe and the United States, ranging from fundamental theoretical questions, such as what goals consumer law should pursue, to practical questions raised by disclosure requirements, the General Data Protection...

A Theory of Regulatory Protection -- Introduction -- A Theory of Global Firms and Local Regulation -- Evidence -- Determinants of Regulatory Barriers to Trade -- Regulatory Preferences in the Chemical Industry -- Regulatory Preferences in the Food Industry -- Institutional Design -- The Design...

"Growing problems in the increasingly one-sided consumer finance markets blew up the economy in 2008. In the aftermath, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Using stories of individual consumers, Watchdog shows how the Bureau quickly became a powerful force for good, suing...