This book explores the concept of a circular economy from both a legal and an interdisciplinary perspective.

The Active Role of Courts in Consumer Litigation traces the emergence of a specific EU Law doctrine governing the role of the national courts in proceedings involving consumers that whilst only established more recently, has already become an important benchmark for effective consumer protection.

This book is an in-depth study of the US and EU approaches towards consumer sales remedies that comprehensively discusses the three important elements of the organisation of consumer sales remedies: the hierarchy of remedies, the (extra)judicial application of remedies and notification duties.

This book focuses on the legal aspects of virtual currencies from the perspective of financial and economic law. It establishes a typology of virtual currencies and assesses whether they can be considered as money. The author analyzes whether the EU legal frameworks on electronic money, payment services, anti-money laundering, and markets in financial instruments can be applied to virtual currencies.

This book three legal instruments proposed by the European Commission in the context of its Digital Single Market Strategy, which has recently become one of its priorities. The proposed instruments are: (1) a directive for the supply of digital content; (2) a directive for the online and other distance sales of goods; and (3) a regulation on cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market.

Consumenten maken meer en meer gebruik van hun smartphone of tablet om aankopen te verrichten. Dit boek wil de lezer een antwoord bieden op zijn vragen, of het nu gaat om een consument die zijn rechten wil kennen of een startup die wil weten welke wettelijke plichten op hem rusten en welke fiscale voordelen aan m-commerce verbonden zijn.

This book offers an innovative and systematic analysis of the new rules on consumer sales contracts in several EU Member States after the implementation of Directive 2011/83/EU on consumer rights.

Deze bundel bevat vijf bijdragen naar aanleiding van presentaties tijdens de Alumnidag nr. 3 van de Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid van de UGent.

In dit boek vinden zowel juristen als niet-juristen een antwoord op 101 concrete juridische vragen die een ondernemer, zelfstandige, werkgever, werknemer of bestuurder zich geregeld stelt in verband met (het recht op) mededinging en de contractuele modulering ervan via concurrentiebedingen.