Markets and the Law: Markets and the Law
About the Book Series
Markets and the Law is concerned with the way the law interacts with the market through regulation, self-regulation and the impact of private law regimes. It looks at the impact of regional and international organizations (eg EC and WTO) and many of the works adopt a comparative approach and/or appeal to an international audience. Examples of subjects covered include trade laws, intellectual property, sales law, insurance, consumer law, banking, financial markets, labour law, environmental law and social regulation affecting the market as well as competition law. The series includes texts covering a broad area, monographs on focused issues, and collections of essays dealing with particular themes.
Rethinking EU Consumer Law
1st Edition
By Geraint Howells, Christian Twigg-Flesner, Thomas Wilhelmsson
April 11, 2019
In Rethinking EU Consumer Law, the authors analyse the development of EU consumer law on the basis of a number of clear themes, which are then traced through specific areas. Recurring themes include the artificiality of the EU’s consumer image, the problems created by the drive towards maximum ...
Credit, Consumers and the Law: After the global storm
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Fairweather, Paul O'Shea, Ross Grantham
August 14, 2018
Consumer law, particularly consumer credit law, is characterised by increasingly complex regulation in Western economies. Reacting to the Global Financial Crisis, governments in the UK, the EU, Australia, New Zealand and the United States have adopted new laws dealing with consumer credit, ...
Consumer Protection and Online Auction Platforms: Towards a Safer Legal Framework
1st Edition
By Christine Riefa
May 24, 2017
Online auctions have undergone many transformations and continue to attract millions of customers worldwide. However these popular platforms remain understudied by legal scholars and misunderstood by legislators. This book explores the legal classification of online auction sites across a range of...
Personal Insolvency Law, Regulation and Policy
1st Edition
By David Milman
March 06, 2017
As the radical reforms contained in the Enterprise Act 2002 have come fully on-stream, Personal Insolvency Law has become a major focus of attention. At the same time, all evidence points to increasing levels of personal debt with the consequential rise in bankruptcies. Personal Insolvency Law, ...
Cyber Consumer Law and Unfair Trading Practices
1st Edition
By Cristina Coteanu
November 25, 2016
Of great interest to practitioners, policymakers and academics - as well as to consumers and traders in general - this timely work addresses all important legal and practical issues that arise in connection with online trading. This important work outlines the existing legislation and legal ...
Information Rights and Obligations: A Challenge for Party Autonomy and Transactional Fairness
1st Edition
By André Janssen, Geraint Howells
November 10, 2016
Information requirements have become a key element of consumer policy at the European level and are also gaining increasing importance in all other areas of private law. The law stipulates that information provided should not be misleading and also involves requirements regarding the fairness and ...
The Future of Consumer Credit Regulation: Creative Approaches to Emerging Problems
1st Edition
Edited
By James P. Nehf, Michelle Kelly-Louw, Peter Rott
November 10, 2016
Effective regulation of consumer credit in modern society is an ever-changing challenge. As new forms of credit emerge in free societies, regulation often lags behind. This volume explores contemporary problems related to the regulation of consumer credit in market economies with a focus on credit ...
Statutory Priorities in Corporate Insolvency Law: An Analysis of Preferred Creditor Status
1st Edition
By Christopher F. Symes
September 12, 2016
Who enjoys statutory preferred creditor status? What justifications exist for jurisdictions to maintain statutes that favour 'priority' creditors over other creditors and contributories? This book examines preferential debts derived from specific legislative provisions applying to corporate ...
Fairness in Consumer Contracts: The Case of Unfair Terms
1st Edition
By Chris Willett
August 26, 2016
This book focuses on unfair contract terms in consumer contracts, in particular the existing legislation and the proposals by the Law Commissions for a new unified regime. In this context it considers, in particular, what we mean by fairness (both procedurally and in substance); the tools used; the...
The Yearbook of Consumer Law 2009
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah Parry, Annette Nordhausen, Geraint Howells
January 28, 2009
The Yearbook of Consumer Law provides a valuable outlet for high quality scholarly work which tracks developments in the consumer law field with a domestic, regional and international dimension. The 2009 volume presents a range of peer-reviewed scholarly articles, analytical in approach and ...
Consumer Protection Law
2nd Edition
By Geraint Howells, Stephen Weatherill
June 20, 2005
This fully revised and updated second edition of Consumer Protection Law introduces the reader to the substantive law of consumer protection in the United Kingdom, the emphasis being on the place of United Kingdom law within an evolving European legal system and also on the need to draw upon ...