The Consumer Protection Ecosystem: Law, Norms, and Technology

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 Protection of the Consumer Under Modern Sales Law

Competition Law and Consumer Protection Law: Two Wings of the Same House

It is increasingly evident that the competition and consumer protection missions of the Federal Trade Commission are more closely related than people have been accustomed to think. In the early years of the Commission’s existence, the link between deception of consumers and adverse competitive effects was taken for granted, although it was not clear which was the primary and which was the secon...

The consumer right to blood products on the staffing of Iranian law and Imamie jurisprudence

 Abstract Background and Objectives Since the blood product should be in certain conditions from the time of blood donation to injection to the patient, the necessary care should be taken and certain monitoring of blood should be made. Therefore, medical personnel should be expert in blood transfusion science, which has many importance in Iranian law and Imamie jurisprudence.   Materials and ...

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 ...