New Frontiers of Consumer Protection The Interplay Between Private and Public Enforcement

by Cafaggi, Fabrizio; Micklitz, Hans-W.

• ISBN13: 9789050957786
• ISBN10: 9050957781
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: Intersentia

Summary

Collective redress has gained momentum in Europe and North America. Legal reforms are driven by different institutional conditions but show a limited degree of convergence. In this book, seventeen contributions from the US, Canada, and the Member States o

Author Biography

Fabrizio Cafaggi (LL.M., University of Rome, 1986; Master in Comparative and International Law, 1987) is Director of the Centre for Judicial Cooperation at EUI; Former Professor of comparative law at the European University Institute; founding member and member of the Executive committee of the European Law Institute and member of the American Law Institute. He is Professor of private law at University of Trento, part-time Professor at the European University Institute in Firenze and Director of the Laboratorio Reti fondazione Bruno Visentini.

Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz: Since 2007 Professor for Economic Law at the European University Institute, Jean Monnet Chair of Private Law and European Economic Law at the University of Bamberg, Germany on leave. Head of the Institute of European and Consumer Law (VIEW) in Bamberg. Studies of law and sociology in Mainz, Lausanne/Geneva (Switzerland), Giessen and Hamburg. Consultancies for OECD in Paris, UNEP Geneva Switzerland/Nairobi Kenya and CI (Consumers International) Den Haag Netherlands/Penang Malaysia. Study visits at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute Florence, Italy, visiting professor at the Somerville College at the University of Oxford, co-founder of the Centre of Excellence at the University of Helsinki. Holder of an ERC Grant 2011-2016 on European Regulatory Private Law. Consultancies for ministries in Austria, Germany, the UK, the European Commission, OECD, UNEP, GIZ, non-governmental organisations, member of the expert committee on consumer affairs at the Federal Ministry of Justice, Berlin.