Recent developments in European Consumer Law

In recent days an increasingly popular high-cost short-term credit called 'buy now pay later' (BNPL) is frequently in the news headl...

Be it pre-contractual information in terms and conditions or information on the processing of personal data in privacy policies, the truth ...

The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has published a call for information on online choice architectures for consumers. The ...

Some of the interesting reads we found in the news from last week: Five misleading pricing tactics to avoid in sales (V. Crowe in Whic...

Aside the New Deal for consumers, parts of which we have already commented on (see POLITICO publishes draft Commission proposal on collecti...

In the UK the organisation Citizens Advice conducted a study of consumers subscribing to various services and discovered that on average...

On 27 th October the European Commission published a  study on consumers’ decision making in insurance services. Insurance services a...

The latest issues of INsights #18 contains a short article by Joasia Luzak ' Camera, Camera, on the Wall... ' which introduces to t...

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

Consumer Products & Sustainability Some of the recent press articles express concerns that some of popular consumer product...

Last Thursday and Friday, many of this blog's authors got together at the European University Institute in Florence to take part in the...

Cloud computing New research suggests that 72% of European cloud users still are not able to answer any questions as to where th...

Telecommunication The European Commission announces not to further regulate fixed telephone lines, since the market moved towards...

The European Commission published last week the results of a retail food study. The study " The economic impact of modern retail on ch...

Over the past years various governments have introduced so-called “nudge units”, by which they pay tribute to the challenging task of trans...

New additions have been added to the virtual symposium on Ben-Shahar's and Schneider's book on mandatory disclosure. They include c...

On ContractsProf Blog , a virtual symposium is currently taking place on the book 'More than you wanted to know' by Omri Ben-Shahar...

Last Friday one of the authors of the blog attended the first Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lecture . The lecture aims at encouraging the ex...

Lawrence Solum's Legal Theory Blog pointed our attention to an interesting new paper by Tess Wilkinson-Ryan presenting ' A psychol...

Jennifer Golbeck, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, talked at TED about the need to protect our...