Regulatory Techniques in Consumer Protection: A Critique of European Consumer Contract Law

electronic contract formation and consumer protection

although electronic contract consists of offer and acceptance, its specific characteristics and the fact that parties to it state their intention in a virtual world i.e. cyber-space, and specially given consumer's need of enough protection in this environment, new rules have been included in laws concerning this kind of contract which seek to make sure that consumer has been well informed ...

Protection of consumer rights in Cyberspace

Today’s civil law faced new challenges and situations for protecting human in role of consumer and also attention to industrial life growing made new branch of law called consumer law that have some positive result in all economic, social and political aspects like increasing household income, reduce conflict and tension between buyer and seller in society and increased public participation in ...

the limits on freedom of contract based on consumer protection

the principle of freedom of contract is conceptually narrower than the will theory and as such it does not deny the state the right to put limits on contracts between individuals. on this ground some measures have been taking to strike a balance between the interests of the consumers and the producers. among these measures are the compulsory sales to consumers in the case law and on the basis o...

One-Way Contracts: Consumer Protection without Law

What if consumer contracts were legally enforceable only against the consumers, but not against the business? This paper, part of my project on the ‘myths of consumer protection,’ describes a regime of ‘one-way contracts’–contracts between consumers and business to which only consumers are bound, the business is not. A breaching business would face no contractual liability. The paper argues tha...

The No-reading Problem in Consumer Contract Law