Consumer contracts concluded via Internet in European Union Private International Law

International Jurisdiction over E-Consumer Contracts in the European Union: Quid Novi Sub Sole?

344 1 Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & Information Technology (ICRI) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) (www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri) and Attorney at Law at the Brussels Bar at the Information Technology Law Department of the law firm Stibbe (www.stibbe.com). Contact address: Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & Information Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuv...

One-Way Contracts: Consumer Protection without Law

What if consumer contracts were legally enforceable only against the consumers, but not against the business? This paper, part of my project on the ‘myths of consumer protection,’ describes a regime of ‘one-way contracts’–contracts between consumers and business to which only consumers are bound, the business is not. A breaching business would face no contractual liability. The paper argues tha...

International Union of Criminal Law

evasion of law in private international law

it is generally accepted that no one is allowed to abuse his legal rights accorded by a country for evasion from some limitations provided by the same country and several laws and verdicts have considered and confirmed this requirement as a rule. nevertheless there is neither common sense about neither the conditions under which such a rule may be applied nor the reactions to be taken against s...

Higher Education Internationalization in European Union

Background: Nowadays, the wordwide trend for becoming most competitive and the most dynamic knowledge based economy is the responsibility of universities. The European Union is moving in this direction for global competitiveness, the retrieval process and brain circulation and income generation. This study, aimed to evaluate the internationalization trend of higher education in Europe. Me...