Consumer Protection and the Digital Economy
A Research Companion
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2026
338 pages
978-1-040-87643-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the effects of digitalisation on consumers and markets, and whether consumer law rules are fit for purpose.
Examining existing consumer law as it interconnects with the related spheres of competition law, intellectual property law, human rights law and dispute resolution regimes, it considers the future of rule and regime building for consumer protection in the face of digital disruption. Offering new perspectives on recent legal developments for consumers, this book examines how general consumer protection principles deal with emergent issues such as the regulation of cryptocurrencies, online auctions, artificial intelligence, intellectual property and digital content services. It highlights issues of cross-border choice of law and enforcement issues for consumer protection as it relates to digital disruption. Exploring the consumer law and policy of the EU and closely related jurisdictions, this volume offers insights that could help inform debates and build rules and regimes for consumer protection.
The book will be of interest to postgraduate students, academics and policy makers, given the worldwide challenges presented by digital disruption to consumer protection.
Examining existing consumer law as it interconnects with the related spheres of competition law, intellectual property law, human rights law and dispute resolution regimes, it considers the future of rule and regime building for consumer protection in the face of digital disruption. Offering new perspectives on recent legal developments for consumers, this book examines how general consumer protection principles deal with emergent issues such as the regulation of cryptocurrencies, online auctions, artificial intelligence, intellectual property and digital content services. It highlights issues of cross-border choice of law and enforcement issues for consumer protection as it relates to digital disruption. Exploring the consumer law and policy of the EU and closely related jurisdictions, this volume offers insights that could help inform debates and build rules and regimes for consumer protection.
The book will be of interest to postgraduate students, academics and policy makers, given the worldwide challenges presented by digital disruption to consumer protection.
Reviews / Votes
Digitalisation is offering new opportunities as well as creating new risks and challenges. This time collection of essays by experts in their fields provides a range of insights from a consumer protection, intellectual property and access to justice perspective. It is an important contribution to these contemporary debates.Geraint Howells, Professor at University of Galway
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
10 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
File size
0,94 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-87643-5 (9781040876435)
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Christopher Willett | Elisabetta Bergamini
Consumer Protection and the Digital Economy
A Research Companion
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Persons
Christopher Willett is Professor in Commercial Law. For 30 years he has taught, researched, published and advised in the areas of UK, EU and global consumer and contract law. He regularly conducts studies and research reports and advise on law reform for the UK government, the EU and other bodies.
Elisabetta Bergamini is Full Professor at the University of Udine. She teaches European Union Law, International Private Law and International Law at the University of Udine and has been awarded various Jean Monnet Modules. She has been coordinating an International Summer School on Consumer protection since 2008, at the University of Udine with the involvement of different foreign universities.
Elisabetta Bergamini is Full Professor at the University of Udine. She teaches European Union Law, International Private Law and International Law at the University of Udine and has been awarded various Jean Monnet Modules. She has been coordinating an International Summer School on Consumer protection since 2008, at the University of Udine with the involvement of different foreign universities.
Content
1. Consumer Protection and the Digital Economy: A Research Companion
2. The Erosion of Freedom of Expression on Social Media Platforms, and the Suppression of the Voices of Marginalised Groups
3. Digital Platforms and the Collaborative Economy: The (Re)identification and (Re)definition of Legal Relationships Between Service Providers and Consumers Through the Lens of Competition Law
4. Crypto-assets as a Digital Disruption - Towards Novel Regulatory Approaches to Consumer Protection in Financial Services
5. Brexit Ideologies and UK Digital Consumer Law
6. Transparency of Fees and Charges in Consumer Credit Contracts. Theoretical and Empirical Insights from the Romanian Banking System
7. A Missed Opportunity? The Empirical Analysis of the Adaptation of Hungarian Higher Education to the European Union's Digital Copyright Reform and the COVID-19 Pandemic
8. Text and Data Mining within the EU Digital Single Market: 'Mining' Room for Private Users
9. AI-Related Opportunities and Risks for Consumers' Rights in the Evolving EU Legal Framework
10. EU Private International Law Rules in the Field of Consumer Protection and Digital Disruption: A Real Improvement for Consumers or a Framework Still in Need of Intervention?
11. Choice-of-Court and Choice-of-Law Clauses in Digital Consumer Contracts: Current Practices and Compliance by Online Platforms
12. Digitalisation and Consumer Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Despite (apparent) Lack of Success, Are These the Seeds of a New Way of Approaching Disputes?
2. The Erosion of Freedom of Expression on Social Media Platforms, and the Suppression of the Voices of Marginalised Groups
3. Digital Platforms and the Collaborative Economy: The (Re)identification and (Re)definition of Legal Relationships Between Service Providers and Consumers Through the Lens of Competition Law
4. Crypto-assets as a Digital Disruption - Towards Novel Regulatory Approaches to Consumer Protection in Financial Services
5. Brexit Ideologies and UK Digital Consumer Law
6. Transparency of Fees and Charges in Consumer Credit Contracts. Theoretical and Empirical Insights from the Romanian Banking System
7. A Missed Opportunity? The Empirical Analysis of the Adaptation of Hungarian Higher Education to the European Union's Digital Copyright Reform and the COVID-19 Pandemic
8. Text and Data Mining within the EU Digital Single Market: 'Mining' Room for Private Users
9. AI-Related Opportunities and Risks for Consumers' Rights in the Evolving EU Legal Framework
10. EU Private International Law Rules in the Field of Consumer Protection and Digital Disruption: A Real Improvement for Consumers or a Framework Still in Need of Intervention?
11. Choice-of-Court and Choice-of-Law Clauses in Digital Consumer Contracts: Current Practices and Compliance by Online Platforms
12. Digitalisation and Consumer Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Despite (apparent) Lack of Success, Are These the Seeds of a New Way of Approaching Disputes?
