Performance-Based Consumer Law

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...

Reforming malpractice law through consumer choice.

Fostering Consumer Performance in Idea Generation: Customizing the Task Structure based on Consumer Knowledge

As firms increasingly seek out consumers’ ideas in various domains, they will encounter individuals with different levels of domain-specific knowledge. While both lowand high-knowledge consumers may be willing to share their ideas benevolently, the performance of the former is likely to be hindered by their lack of relevant knowledge in the problem domain. It is also well established that, desp...

The consumer right to blood products on the staffing of Iranian law and Imamie jurisprudence

 Abstract Background and Objectives Since the blood product should be in certain conditions from the time of blood donation to injection to the patient, the necessary care should be taken and certain monitoring of blood should be made. Therefore, medical personnel should be expert in blood transfusion science, which has many importance in Iranian law and Imamie jurisprudence.   Materials and ...

Differences in Fitts' Law Task Performance Based on Environment Scaling

Haptics research has begun implementing haptic feedback in tasks of great precision and skill, such as robotic surgery. Haptic displays can represent task environments with arbitrary scaling. Fitts’ Law suggests differences in the scale of a workspace rendered on a visual display and in a haptic display should not affect performance of those tasks. However, interactions of great precision and s...