Consumer Law (Casebook in preparation)

• Background information
• Table of contents
• Task Force
• Author Meetings

Background Information

The objective of this casebook, like the other casebooks in the series on the common law of Europe, is to help uncover common roots, notwithstanding differences in approach, of the European legal systems, with a view to strengthening the common legal heritage of Europe, not to strangling its diversity.

This casebook will cover the big legal families in the EU and will mainly contain judgments form the supreme courts of the member states. In view of the existence of a significant number of harmonisation directives in this field the Consumer Law casebook will concentrate on the harmonised area's (unfair contract terms, distant selling, doorstep selling, product liability, package holiday tours...) and will contain judgments of the ECJ (and annotations thereof) and extracts from EC directives. Furthermore attention will be paid to the way in which, when interpreting EC directives in the consumer field, the ECJ refers to concepts common to the legal systems of the Members States and how the courts of the Member States incorporate the concepts of the directives (as interpreted by the ECJ) in their legal systems.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1. General Part
• Chapter 2. Trade Practices and Advertising
• Chapter 3. Consumer Contract Law - General Part
• Chapter 4. Consumer Contract Law - Specific Part
• Chapter 5. Financial Services
• Chapter 6. Product Safety and Product Liability (Products and Services)
• Chapter 7. Litigation, Redress and Enforcement

Task Force

From left under, clockwise around the table: E Terryn, HW Micklitz, J Stuyck, G Howells,
C Twigg-Flesner, P Rott, T Van Dyck, V Colaert, S Cámara Lapuente, L Tichy

The list below shows the affiliations of the task force members at the time of their involvement in the preparatory process.

Editors

• HW Micklitz (University of Bamberg/EUI Florence)
• J Stuyck (University of Leuven)
• E Terryn (University of Leuven)

Authors

• JS Borghetti (Paris)
• S Cámara Lapuente (Uni La Rioja)
• V Colaert (University of Leuven)
• G Howells (Lancaster University)
• HW Micklitz (Universität Bamberg)
• E Poillot (University Jean Moulin - Lyon III)
• P Rott (Uni Bremen)
• J Stuyck (University of Leuven)
• E Terryn (University of Leuven)
• L Tichy (Charles University Prague)
• C Twigg-Flesner (University of Hull)
• T Van Dyck (University of Leuven)

Advisory Committee

• E Hondius (Universiteit Utrecht)
• P Rémy-Corlay (Université Paris-Sud 11)
• S Weatherill (Oxford University)
• T Wilhelmsson (University of Helsinki)

Author Meetings

• Bamberg, 9 October 2004
• Leuven, 27-28 May 2005
• Edinburgh, 2 December 2005
• London, 24-25 April 2006
• Utrecht, 1 December 2006
• Leuven, 18-19 May 2007
• Leuven, 20 September 2007
• Florence, 1-2 March (editorial meeting)

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