Consumer Law and Socioeconomic Development: National and International Dimensions

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Consumer Protection in the Global Context: The Present Status and Some New Trends....Pages 3-23
The UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection: Review and Next Steps....Pages 25-37
The UNGCP Guidelines: Some Comments....Pages 39-50
Common Law and International Consumer Protection in the Global Orbit of Consumption....Pages 51-62
International Consumer Protection and Private International Law....Pages 63-70
The Supranational Organizations’ Initiatives Aimed at Protection of Tourists. Why International Conventions Are Needed....Pages 71-79
Chinese Approaches to Reform Consumer Protection Law: Substantive Law and Conflict Law....Pages 81-89
International Consumer Protection in Mercosur....Pages 91-102
25 Years to Celebrate: Horizons Reached by the 1990 Brazilian Consumer Protection Code and Horizons to Come, Especially on the International Protection of Consumers....Pages 103-138
Regional Integration and Consumer Safety: An Emerging Concern in the Gulf Region....Pages 139-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Consumer Credit Regulation and International Financial Markets: Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown....Pages 147-157
The International Financial Crisis and the Protection of the Brazilian Consumer....Pages 159-174
Free Trade Agreement and Investment Treaty Innovations to Promote More Sustainable Financial Markets for Consumers....Pages 175-182
Financial Consumer Protection in China: Country Report....Pages 183-197
Current Issues for Consumer Protection Law in Australia....Pages 199-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Relations Between International Law and Consumer Law in the Globalized World: Challenges and Prospects....Pages 211-238
Economic Development, Capitalism, and Consumer Law in Brazil: Rejecting the Argument for “Legal Paternalism”....Pages 239-252
The Illegal and Abusive: Proposals for a Systematic Interpretation of Abusive Practices in the 25 Years of the Consumer Defense Code....Pages 253-275
Children, Consumption, and Advertising: Brazil’s Point of View....Pages 277-286
Further Challenges for Australian Consumer Law....Pages 287-305
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
The Emergence and Development of Chinese 3.15 Anticounterfeiting....Pages 307-315
Real Estate Under Construction, Consumer Law and Development....Pages 317-330
Real Estate Consumer Credit: A New Side to Vulnerability....Pages 331-351
Consumer Protection in E-Commerce in Brazil: The Updating of the Consumer’s Protection Code....Pages 353-370
The Right to Be Forgotten and the Indirect Control of Consumer Databases....Pages 371-381
Regulation and Supervision of Internet Finance and Consumer Protection in China....Pages 383-401
Overindebtedness in Mercosul Countries: An Overview....Pages 403-420
“Withholding Credit” and Elderly Overindebtedness....Pages 421-446
Consuming, Consumption, and Overindebtedness in (Hyper) Contemporaneity....Pages 447-469