Information rights and obligations : a challenge for party autonomy and transactional fairness / edited by Geraint Howells, Andre Janssen, Reiner Schulze.

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?