Book Review: European Consumer Law
| Date | 01 December 2014 |
| Published date | 01 December 2014 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1023263X1402100414 |
| Author | Joasia Luzak |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
21 MJ 4 (2014) 797
BOOK REVIEW
Norbert Reich, Hans-W. Micklitz, Peter Rott and K laus Tonner, European Consumer
Law. 2nd edition. Ius Communitatis Series, Volume 5. Cambrid ge: Intersentia, 2014.
419 pages, ISBN 978–1–78068–086– 6, €95
Intersentia devotes its ‘Ius Communitatis’ Series to popularizing areas of law that have
been ‘Europeanized ’. is year, the series released the newest edition of the European
Consumer Law book, previously issued under the title Understanding EU Consumer
Law. e gradual Europeanization and harmonization of Member States’ consumer
laws that began in the 1980 s generated heretofore a large amount of European consumer
protection mea sures.
e book ’s authors undertook a chal lenging task to present varied rules of Europea n
consumer law in a concise, structured and comprehensive way. In the rst chapter,
Reich and Micklitz outline the position of Europea n consumer law within primary
European law, as well as discuss various issues of consumer policy, including the
European legislator’s intention to replace minimum harmonization measures with ful l
harmonization measu res and the controversies related to the notion of a ‘consumer’.
e following chapters analyse speci c existing and impending European consumer
protection measures: Micklitz discusses protection against unfair commercial practices
and misleading advert ising in Chapter 2, as well as the protect ion against unfair contract
terms in Chapter 3; Micklitz and Reich present measures protect ing consumers in
consumer sales in Chapter 4; Rott analyses consumer credit and the proposed mortgage
credit rules in Chapter 5; M icklitz illustrates liabil ity for defective products and services
in Chapter 6; Reich scrutin izes cross-border consumer protection by presenting rules on
the choice of law and applicable jurisdic tion in Chapter 7 and discussing the consu mer’s
individual and col lective access to justice in Chapter 8; and, nally, Tonner in Chapter 9
studies the impact of t he newest Consumer Rights D irective1 as w el l as o f t h e E - C om m er c e
Directive2 speci cally on consumer contracts concluded th rough the internet.
1 Directive 2011/83/EU of the Euro pean Parliament and of t he Council of 25Octobe r 2011 on consumer
rights, amend ing Council Direct ive 93/13/EEC and Directive 1999/44/EC of t he European Parlia ment
and of the Counci l and repeali ng Council Direc tive 85/577/EEC and Directi ve 97/7/EC of the European
Parliament and of t he Council Text with EEA rele vance, [2011] OJ L 304/64.
2 Directive 20 00/31/EC of the European Parliament a nd of the Council of 8June 200 0 on certain legal
aspects of in formation societ y service s, in part icular elec tronic commerce, i n the Internal M arket
(‘Directive on elec tronic commerce’), [2000] OJ L 178/1.
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