Hans-W Micklitz

This book analyses the founding years of consumer law and consumer policy in Europe. It combines two dimensions: the making of national consumer law and the making of European consumer law, and how both are intertwined. The chapters on Germany, Italy, the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom serve to explain the economic and the political background which led to different legal and policy approaches in the then old Member States from the 1960s onwards. The chapter on Poland adds a different layer, the one of a former socialist country with its own consumer law and how joining the EU affected consumer law at the national level. The making of European consumer law started in the 1970s rather cautiously, but gradually the European Commission took an ever stronger position in promoting not only European consumer law but also in supporting the building of the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), the umbrella organisation of the national consumer bodies. The book unites the early protagonists who were involved in the making of consumer law in Europe: Guido Alpa, Ludwig Krämer, Ewa Letowska, Hans-W Micklitz, Klaus Tonner, Iain Ramsay, and Thomas Wilhelmsson, supported by the younger generation Aneta Wiewiórowska Domagalska, Mateusz Grochowski, and Koen Docter, who reconstructs the history of BEUC. Niklas Olsen and Thomas Roethe analyse the construction of this policy field from a historical and sociological perspective. This book offers a unique opportunity to understand a legal and political field, that of consumer law and policy, which plays a fundamental role in our contemporary societies.

The Making of Consumer Law and Policy in Europe

Cross (?) fertilisation / Professor Ewa Łętowska -- The origins of consumer law and policy at EU level / Ludwig Krämer -- The early years of the European Consumer Organisation BEUC, 1962-1985 / Dr. Koen Docter -- The Intellectual Community of Consumer Law and Policy in the EU / Hans-W Micklitz -- German Consumer Law : own initiatives in the 1970s and transposition of EU directives since the 1980s / Klaus Tonner -- The making of consumer law and policy in Italy / Guidio Alpha -- The emergence of Nordic Consumer Law and a Nordic consumer law community and its impact on Nordic legal unity / Thomas Wilhelmsson -- Consumer Law in Poland : or there and back again / Aneta Wiewiórowska-Domagalska and Mateusz Grochowski -- Ordoliberalism and opportunism? The making of consumer law in the UK / Professor Iain Ramsay -- Consumer imaginaries, political visions and the ordering of modern society / Niklas Olsen -- The making of consumer law - a sociological critique / Thomas Roethe -- Looking back to look forward : spring 2021 / Hans-W Micklitz/Thomas Wilhelmsson.

Compares national concepts of social justice with the developing European concept of access justice.

Social Justice, Access Justice, Societal Justice

The Politics of Justice in European Private Law

Stefan Grundmann

In 2012, at the height of the sovereign debt crisis, European decision makers pushed for developing an 'ever closer union' with the formation of a European Banking Union (BU). Although it provoked widespread debate, to date there has been no coherent discussion of the political and constitutional dimensions of the European Banking Union. This important new publication fills this gap. Drawing on the expertise of recognised experts in the field, it explores banking union from legal, economic and political perspectives. It takes a four-part approach. Firstly, it sets the scene by examining the constitutional foundations of banking union. Then in parts 2 and 3, it looks at the implications of banking union for European integration and for democracy. Finally it asks whether banking union might be more usefully regarded as a trade-off between integration and democracy. This is an important, timely and authoritative collection.

Hans-W Micklitz

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