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International Consumer Protection and Private International Law

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As other contributions to this volume demonstrate in greater detail, the international community lacks a coherent institutional structure for effective consumer protection on a global basis. No single organization or agency plays the central standard setting role in identifying the issues or articulating the rules to deal with difficulties encountered by individual consumers in an increasing globalized economy.

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  1. 1.

    See UNGA Res. 95/248 Annex (adopted by consensus on April 16, 1985).

  2. 2.

    Id. at para. 3.

  3. 3.

    See UNGA Decision 54/449 (Dec. 22, 1999), available at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/sdissues/consumption/cpp14.htm. See also the Report of the Secretary General, “Consumer Protection: Guidelines for Sustainable Consumption,” UN Doc. E/CN.17/1998/5 (19 February 1998).

  4. 4.

    See, e.g., http://www.consumersinternational.org/who-we-are/un-guidelines-on-consumer-protection.

  5. 5.

    Howells and Weatherill (2005), Hueting (2011).

  6. 6.

    The G-20 High Level Principles can be found at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/58/26/48892010.pdf.

  7. 7.

    See http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/strategy/index_en.htm#agenda.

  8. 8.

    See https://icpen.org.

  9. 9.

    Brummer (2012).

  10. 10.

    Id. at 266–267.

  11. 11.

    Id. at 279.

  12. 12.

    Generally, see Flayton and Letchiner (2011). An excellent overview can be found in Crane et al. (2011), p. 305. They observe “consumer protection law in the United States is not so much a cohesive body of law as it is a jumble of discrete (yet often interrelated and overlapping) federal and state laws.”

  13. 13.

    Crane et al. (2011), p. 305.

  14. 14.

    Generally, see http://ftc.gov/bcp/about.shtm.

  15. 15.

    See http://www.fda.gov.

  16. 16.

    For information about the CPSC, see http://www.cspc.gov.

  17. 17.

    For example, the Consumer Credit Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1601 et seq., and the Truth in Lending Act, id., and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, 5 U.S.C. § 1691 et seq.

  18. 18.

    Generally, see http://www.consumerfinance.gov.

  19. 19.

    The CFPA was created by the so-called Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Pub.L. 111–203.For background, see Chaffee (2011), 60 Amer. U. L. Rev. 1431.

  20. 20.

    For additional information, see http://europa.eu/pol/cons/index_en.htm.

  21. 21.

    See http://www.oas.org/en/sla/cshn/about_cshn.asp.

  22. 22.

    The text is available at http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/treaties/b-56.html.

  23. 23.

    Generally, see http://www.oas.org/dil/CIDIP-VII_consumer_protection.htm. For additional background, see Paula Serra Freire (2010).

  24. 24.

    For one analysis, see Diego Fernandez (2009), p. 411.

  25. 25.

    AG/RES. 2661 (XLI-O/11), adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 7, 2011). See http://www.oas.org/dil/AG-RES_2661_XLI-O-11_eng.pdf. For a detailed commentary and implementation guide, see http://www.oas.org/dil/CP-CAJP-2841-10_eng.pdf.

  26. 26.

    OAS doc. OEA/Ser. G CP/CAJP-3063/12, Comparative Study: Data Protection in the Americas (3 April 2012).

  27. 27.

    CJI/RES. 186 (LXXX-O/12). The text is available at http://www.oas.org/cji/eng/CP-INF_6418-12_eng.pdf.

  28. 28.

    At its 2012 annual session, the OAS General Assembly took note of these Principles and referred them to the Committee on Political and Juridical Affairs.

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Teitz, L.E., Stewart, D.P. (2017). International Consumer Protection and Private International Law. In: Lima Marques, C., Wei, D. (eds) Consumer Law and Socioeconomic Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55624-6_5

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