Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law

Hans-W. 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 (emeritus). 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. 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. Finland Distinguished Professor of the Academy of Finland 2016-2020.  Geneviève Saumier is the Peter M. Laing QC Professor of Law at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she engages in teaching and research in consumer law, private international law, civil procedure and international dispute resolution. She is a member of the Académie internationale de droit comparé and the Asociación Americana de Derecho Internacional Privado. She also sits on the board of Quebec’s Consumer Protection Office. She has been a Canadian delegate to the Hague Conference on Private International Law and is currently co-rapporteur for that body’s Draft instrument on the recognition of foreign judgments.

• Part I General Report.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law.- Part II National Reports.- Argentina: Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in Australia.- Consumer Protection in Brazil: The 2016 Rapport for the International Academy of Consumer Law.- Effectiveness and Enforcement of Consumer Law in Bulgaria.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in Chile: A General Overview.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in the People’s Republic of China.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in Croatia.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in the Czech Republic.- The EU Legal Framework for the Enforcement of Consumer Law.- L’Effectivité du Droit Français de la Consummation.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in Greece.- Enforcement of Consumer Law in Hong Kong.- In Search of an Effective Enforcement of Consumer Rights: The Italian Case.- La Mise en Œuvre et l’Effectivité du Droit de la Consommation au Japon.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law: The Netherlands.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in New Zealand.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in Poland.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in Portugal: Filling the Gap between the Law on the Books and the Law in Action.- L’Application et l’Effectivité du Droit Québécois de la Consmmation.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in Romania.- Singapore Consumer Law.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in Slovenia.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in South Africa.- An Interdisciplinary View of Enforcement and Effectiveness of Spanish Consumer Law.- Effectiveness and Enforcement of Consumer Law in Sweden.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in Turkey.- Enforcement and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in the UK.- Compliance and Effectiveness of Consumer Law in Venezuela.