· Dan Wei is Full Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau. She is a member of the Economic Development Council of the Macau Special Administrative Region Government and Invited Expert of Ascertainment of Foreign Law of the Center for Ascertainment of Foreign Law of the Supreme People’s Court of Republic of China.
· James P. Nehf has been teaching contracts, consumer law, and commercial law subjects for more than twenty years. He is an internationally recognized expert in consumer privacy and financial services law and serves as an executive board member of the International Consumer Law Association, a global society of consumer law scholars and policymakers. He has won numerous teaching awards and has been a frequent speaker at law conferences, CLE seminars, and law-related lecture series.
· Claudia Lima Marques is an expert in the fields of Consumer Law, Private Law, and both Private and Public International Law. Currently, Titular Professor and Coordinator of the postgraduate Law Program of the Law School of UFRGS, Claudia holds a number of positions on national and international legal and consumer protection bodies.
Description:
This book covers technologies that pose new challenges for consumer policy, creative developments that can help protect consumers’ economic interests, innovative approaches to addressing perennial consumer concerns, and the challenges entailed by emerging ways of creating and delivering consumer products and services. In addition, it reflects on past successes and failures of consumer law and policy, explores opportunities for moving consumer law in a different direction, and discusses potential threats to consumer welfare, especially in connection with the changing political landscape in many parts of the world. Several chapters examine consumer law in individual countries, while others have an international focus.