Consumer Law and Socioeconomic Development

Part I International Protection of Consumers: trends and challenges: Dan Wei , Consumer Protection in the Global Context: the Present Status and Some New Trends.- Ana Candida Muniz and Hector Santana , The UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection: review and next.- Gail Pearson , The UNGCP Guidelines - Some Comments.- Fabiana D´Andrea Ramos and Vitor Hugo do Amaral Ferreira , Common Law and International Consumer Protection in the Global Orbit of Consumption.- Louise Teitz and David Stewart , International Consumer Protection and Private International Law.- Maria Goretti Sanches Lima , The Supranational Organizations' initiatives aimed at protection of tourists. Why international conventions are needed?.- Yu Ying , Chinese Approaches to Reform Consumer Protection law: Substantive Law and Conflict Law.- Alberto do Amaral Junior and Luciane Klein Vieira , International Consumer Protection in Mercosur.- Claudia Lima Marques , 25 Years to Celebrate: Horizons reached by the 1990 Brazilian Consumer Protection Code and horizons to come, especially on the international protection of consumers.- Thierry Bourgoignie , Regional Integration and Consumer Safety: An Emerging Concern in the Gulf Region.- Part II Financial crisis and consumer protection: James Nefh , Consumer Credit Regulation and International Financial Markets: Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown.- Hector Santana , The International Financial Crisis and the Protection of the Brazilian Consumer.- Luke Nottage , Free Trade Agreement and Investment Treaty Innovations to Promote More Sustainable Financial Markets for Consumers.- Dan Wei , Financial Consumer Protection in China: country report.- Gail Pearson , Current Issues for Consumer Protection Law in Australia.- Part III National and regional consumer law issues: helping the economic development: Claudia Lima Marques , Relations Between International Law and Consumer Law in The Globalized World: Challenges and Prospects.- Amanda Flávio de Oliveira , Economic development, capitalism and Consumer Law in Brazil: rejecting the argument for "legal paternalism".- Bruno Miragem , The Illegal and Abusive: Proposals for a Systematic Interpretation of Abusive Practices in the 25 Years of the Consumer Defense Code.- Adalberto Pasqualotto , Children, Consumption and Advertising: Brazil's Point of View.- Gail Pearson , Further Challenges for Australian Consumer Law.- He Shan , The Emergence and Development of Chinese 3.15 Anti-Counterfeiting.- Roberto Augusto Castellanos Pfeiffer , Real Estate Under Construction, Consumer Law and Development.- Walter José Faiad de Moura and Leonardo Roscoe Bessa , Real Estate Consumer Credit: a New Side to Vulnerability.- Antonia Espíndola Longoni Klee , ConsumerProtection in E-Commerce in Brazil: The Updating of the Consumer's Protection Code.- André de Carvalho Ramos , The right to be forgotten and the indirect control of consumer databases.- Yixian Zhao , Regulation and Supervision of Internet Finance and Consumer Protection in China.- Káren Rick Danilevicz Bertoncello and Clarissa Costa de Lima , Overindebtedness in Mercosul Countries: An Overview.- Johannes Doll and Rosangela Cavallazzi , 'Withholding Credit' and Elderly Overindebtedness.- Diogenes Faria de Carvalho , Consuming, Consumption and Over-Indebtedness in (Hyper) Contemporaneity.