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Book review: AA.VV., The impact of the mortgage credit Directive in Europe: Contrasting views from Member States, edited by Miriam Anderson and Esther Arroyo Amayuelas, Amsterdam, Europa Law Publishing, 2018, 460 pp.
Isabel Menéres Campos
Keywords Directive 2014/17; mortgage credit; responsible lending; consumer protection.
Crowdfunding as a way to finance companies
João Vieira dos Santos
Keywords Crowdfunding; Regulation; Companies; Fundraisers; Online Platforms; Investors
Plaidoyer for a “dynamic distribution of the burden of proof” and for the “spheres of risk theory” on the light of the recent Supreme Court´s decision, of 18/12/2013: the (admirable) “new world” on the homebanking?
Hugo Luz dos Santos
Keywords Dynamic distribution of burden of proof; spheres of risk; consumer; homebanking; information gap; bounded rationality
Rental Housing: the current legal framework in England
Caroline Hunter / Jed Meers
Keywords Residential tenancies; England; precarity.
Soft Law and good governance in the cryptocurrencies market
João Vieira dos Santos
Keywords Soft Law; Good Governance; Cryptocurrencies; Blockchain; Auto-regulation; Regulation.
Some brief thoughts on the employment contract as a pre-formulated standard contract
Leonor Pizarro Monteiro
Keywords Unfair contract terms; pre-formulated standard contract; employment contract; collective agreements
The relationship between Unfair Competition Law and Competition Defense Law in Spanish Law after Directive 2014/104/UE transposition into national Law and recent Supreme Court rulings
Gustavo Andrés Martín Martín
Keywords Unfair competition; Antitrust Law, article 15.2 Unfair Competition ACT (LCD); simple infringement; competitive rules; Directive 2014/104/UE.
Book review of VV. AA.: Ordenación económica del matrimonio y de la crisis de pareja, dirigido por Carlos Lasarte Álvarez y María Dolores Cervilla Garzón, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2018, 894 pp. (ISBN 978-849143-941-7)
Adrián Arrébola Blanco
Keywords Directive 2014/17; mortgage credit; responsible lending; consumer protection.
Contracts of consumption in Brazilian law: general rules, interpretation and abusive practices
Renato Lovato Neto
Keywords Contracts in the Consumer Protection Code; abusive practices; contractual balance
Electronic commerce and hotels: an analysis of online travel agencies’ civil liability
Thiago Dias Silva
Keywords Civil Liability; Online Travel Agencies; Travel Agency; E-commerce; OTAs; Consumer Law.
The "fetosín" as an example of a traditional legal institution
Irene Merino Calle
Keywords Customary law; Public law; Spanish Private law; Fetosín; Anthropology; Common gods; Jurisprudence; Spanish Civil Law.
The Hardship Clause as a form of Mitigation of Information Asymmetry in International Contracts
Gabriela Wallau Rodrigues / Demétrio Beck da Silva Giannakos
Keywords Hardship Clause; Asymmetric Information; International Contracts.
The possibility of the extension to third parties of the obligatory effects of the contract in the CESL and in the Spanish regulation
Miguel Ángel Tenas Alós
Keywords Common European Sales Law; Contracts; Contractual vinculation; Principle of contractual relativity; Sales; Spanish legal system
When the lease position is extended to the other spouse under the marital property regime — a critical reflection on the article 1068 of the Portuguese Civil Code
Rute Teixeira Pedro
Keywords Lease; Marriage; Marital Property Regime; Family Household; Co-ownership of a contractual position; Family Wealth.
Banckruptcy and Lease under Brazilian Banckruptcy Law
Adriana Valéria Pugliesi
Keywords Banckruptcy; Lease; Brazilian Banckrupcy Law; Preservation of the company.
Book Review of ESPINIELLA MENÉNDEZ, A.: La protección de los consumidores, Colecção Abogacía Internacional, vol. II, Madrid, Rasche, 2016, 270 pp. (ISBN: 978-84-15560-57-9)
Helena Mota
Keywords European Union; Private International Law; consumer protection; cross-border consumer contracts.
General principles of electronic public procurement
Duarte Amorim Pereira
Keywords
Cyberspace, regulation; internet; electronic public procurement; information technology law; general principles of law.
The Genetically Modified Organisms in European Union Law: the role of the precautionary principle and the relationship between Authority and Freedom
Roberto Saija
Keywords Precautionary principle; substantial equivalence; GMO; biotechnology; food security; co-existence.
Brief considerations on the affordability in the German residential tenancy market and alternatives in the sharing economy context
Marta Santos Silva
Keywords Housing; Rent; Rent Regulation; Tenancy law; Tenant; Landlord.
The innovation of the French tenancy law: the ALUR Act
Asimina Tsalpatourou
Keywords tenancy law; housing market; ALUR Act; renovation; rent control; guarantees.