RE-THEORISING CONSUMER LAW

Stanford Law Re

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.

Performance Re-engineering of Consumer Electronic Applinances

Consumer electronic appliances are typical of embedded real-time systems which comprise electro-mechanical components and microprocessors possessing timing requirements. This paper formulates a re-engineering problem of such embedded systems and presents a solution approach. The re-engineering of an embedded system is defined as a development task of meeting newly imposed performance requiremen...

Theorising pathways to sustainability

Using a Pathways approach, controversies over environmental and natural resource management are viewed as expressions of alternative, or competing, pathways to sustainability. This supports deeper understanding of the underlying causes of natural resource management controversies. The framework is composed of two elements: the STEPS (Social, Technological, and Environmental Pathways to Sustaina...