Information rights and obligations : a challenge for party autonomy and transactional fairness / edited by Geraint Howells, Andre Janssen, Reiner Schulze.
Information rights and obligations : a challenge for party autonomy and transactional fairness / edited by Geraint Howells, Andre Janssen, Reiner Schulze.
0754624323 9780754624325 9781351927598 electronic book 9781315252285 electronic bk
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N 742 HOW.I
Summary
Information obligations has become an important technique at the European level of European Private Law. Certainly this is obvious in consumer law, but as this collection of essays demonstrates, it applies in other fields too.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Autonomy and fairness: the case of public statements; 2. The strategy and the harmonization process within the European legal system: party autonomy and information requirements; 3. Evolution of party autonomy in a legal system under transformation - recent development in Poland under special consideration of the package travel directive; 4. From truth in lending to responsible lending; 5. EC directives for self-employed commercial agents and on time-sharing - apples, oranges and the core of the information overload problem; 6. Information requirements in the E-Commerce directive and the proposed directive on unfair commercial practices; 7. Contractual disclosure and remedies under the unfair contract terms directive; 8. Information disclosure about the quality of goods - duty or encouragement? 9. Information and product liability - a game of Russian roulette? 10. Duties to inform versus party autonomy: reversing the paradigm (from free consent to informed consent)? - a comparative account of french and english law; 11. The information requirements in the principles of European private law "long-term commercial contracts: commercial agency, distribution, franchise" - a model for a European civil code?