The aim of the paper, based on empirical research in Brazil, is to investigate how supply chains have evolved over time, what factors have driven this evolution and also how a specific set of contractual practices along these chains is linked to access to international markets. The two selected...

Unfair trade practices (UTPs) can refer to individual firms or, more often, concern the entire chain. The article contends that UTPs in supply chains present specific features; as a consequence, they require specific rules and remedies. Power concentration in food global chains often leads to...

Transnational private regulation (TPR) consists of regulatory regimes that are enacted by private actors with or without the collaboration of states and international organizations. Within TPR, there are various organizational ‘densities'. In some cases, there are multiple regimes, while in...

Trans-national private regulation has become a prominent form of rulemaking in several domains, from advertising to financial services, food safety and environmental regulation, with alternate fortune so far. In some cases, private regulation emerges spontaneously, independently of any...

In this paper, we examine consultation procedures in the light of behavioral sciences. We feature consultation as a dialogue between the administration and the participants in the form of a public good game with one or more tournaments. Our focus is on the architecture of the dialogue and its...

This paper addresses self-regulation as a complementary means to harmonize and regulate European Contract Law. In the context of the paper SR is conceived as a complementary device to legislation and as a monitoring device to verify ECL implementation. Within self-regulation different players...

The changes of the European regulatory space propose new questions concerning the identity and the liability of regulators. The increasing use of self-regulation, co-regulation and delegated self-regulation in different fields have empowered private regulators. They have been playing an...