Willem van Boom, Amandine Garde

The European Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (eBook, PDF)

Impact, Enforcement Strategies and National Legal Systems

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together leading experts in the comparative law and consumer law domain, the book discusses the impact of the 2005 Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, or UCPD, and whether the many possible issues identified at its inception have been borne out in practice. The volume examines the various policy developments, the growing body of case law, the decisions of relevant national enforcement authorities, as well as the legislative debates which have surrounded the implementation of the UCPD in Member States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317033165
• Artikelnr.: 44777997

Autorenporträt

Willem van Boom is a professor of law at Leiden University , the Netherlands. Van Boom's current research interests include contracts, torts and insurance, consumer law and civil procedure. While a traditional lawyer by education, Van Boom has a keen interest in private law 'in the real world'. In some of his recent publications, he attempts to gain a better understanding of how private law rules and dogmas impact on behaviour. He does so by combining insights from comparative law, law and economics and social sciences. Van Boom is part-time judge at the The Hague Court of Appeal. Moreover, he is an independent member of the Consumer Affairs Committee of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands. Amandine Garde is Professor Law, Liverpool University, UK. Her research interests lie in the fields of EU trade, consumer, advertising, food and public health law. She specialises more specifically on the role which regulation and litigation can play in improving public health and the wellbeing of children as a group of particularly vulnerable consumers. Amandine Garde has been involved in several policy initiatives, not least for the World Health Organisation, the European Commission, the UK and the Scottish Governments, and she regularly lends her advice to public health and consumer organisations in the UK, mainland Europe and North America. She is a qualified solicitor. Dr. Orkun Akseli is Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at Durham Law School. Before embarking on academic life he practiced insurance defence and commercial litigation in Turkey. He is a member of the Turkish Bar. His research interests are in the corporate and commercial field with particular emphasis on harmonisation of secured transactions laws and facilitation of credit. He is the author of 'International Secured Transactions Law: Facilitation of Credit, International Conventions and Instruments'; co-editor (with Professor Joanna Gray) of 'Financial Regulation in Crisis? The Role of L