Prelims -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of National Legislation -- Table of European Law -- Table of International Treaties and Conventions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Harmonisation of European Sale of Goods Laws -- 3 The Nature and Scope of Performance-Oriented Remedies -- 4 The Buyer's...

Examples of financial mistakes made by consumers lend support to the view that systematic mistakes of consumers exist in the EU credit market and that service providers respond strategically to these by redesigning their products. This paper seeks to determine how existing regulation can be...

EU consumer law generally refers to rights which facilitate the economic participation of EU citizens in the internal market. Social rights, which extend to other aspects of consumers' lives such as employment, social inclusion, and environmental protection, are perceived to fall outside the...

This chapter gives a bird's eye overview of EU financial services regulation.The first part gives a brief map of the areas of law – public, private, self-regulation – in which EU financial services regulation is situated. Part two discusses one of the goals of EU financial services law,...

This paper explores what normative choices have been made with regard to the image(s) of the consumer in European regulatory private law (ERPL), and whether these choices may (or may not) need revision as insights on consumers' needs for protection evolve

This chapter aims to give an overview of the contractual issues that have arisen in relation to the use of data. Since the use of data has far-reaching consequences for consumer markets, the chapter focuses on issues that have arisen in those markets and the regulatory responses that have...