Consumer Protection Contract Law is different from general contract Law in basic issues. Accordingly, there is place to relate to "laws of contracts" instead of one "contract law". Consumer contracts should be classified as an independent branch of contract law.Consume contract law has special...

Given a choice between two systems of contract rules, a court or legislature may have a normative obligation to adopt the rule that is more susceptible to coding and automation. This paper explores the ramifications of that normative proposition through the lens of multiple contract doctrines...

Unfair terms law as an area of consumer contract law becomes more and more important and, within the European context, new forms of enforcement are discussed in order to augment the level of effectiveness of consumer protection. Personalization of the law could have a significant impact on the...

The long awaited first Act of China Private International Law, Law of Application of Law for Foreign-related Civil Relations of People's Republic of China (LALFCR), was adopted on October 28 2010, and will come into force on April 1 2011. Unprecedented, the legislation of China expresses its...

Over the past decade, that is to say, post-financial crisis, national courts have identified rules of national civil procedure that they understand operate to impede the application of EU consumer law rules, as transposed into domestic law. The potential incompatibility of these national rules...

The paper explores whether a party under a contract is obliged to grant the other party access to data it has collected in the course of the contract. The paper is based on an analysis of European and German law and provides the basic insights from law and economics of contract law. Whether a...

As part of the Australian Consumer Law reforms of 2010, unfair contract terms protections were implemented nationwide across most sectors that use standard form contracts in their dealings with consumers, including financial services. However, until recently, these protections did not apply to...