Recent developments in European Consumer Law

In December 2015 the Commission commenced a comprehensive consultation on steps to take to create a 'true European market for retail fin...

Yesterday we reported about the Commission's study on vulnerability, which, among other things, called for more transparency, so that c...

Yesterday the Commission published a study examining the incidence of consumer vulnerability across the EU28 and Iceland and Norway. It iden...

Today the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in Case C-49/14 ( Finanmadrid ). We have reported earlier on AG Sz...

The Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) platform is now available online . The platform serves as a single contact point to direct consumer...

The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford will hold the Fourth Annual Civil Justice Conference on ADR and ODR on 18-20 ...

Enforcement proceedings and unfairness continued: AG Szpunar in Case C-421/14 ( Banco Primus ) In yet another  case following a preli...

A quick update for our readers on the legal guarantees surrounding data flow between EU and US: today, the Commission and the American gov...

Any (recent) graduate or a student who is about to graduate, with an interest in research and in European consumer law, should consider app...

German consumer associations have started reacting to the special demands of refugees that act as arguably particularly unexperienced consu...