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Copyright

Joasia Luzak;

Published On

2025-06-05

Page Range

pp. 171–190

Language

  • English

Print Length

20 pages

9. Consumers in European Private Law

Chapter of: Uncovering European Private Law: A Student Handbook(pp. 171–190)
This is an introduction for future students of (European) consumer law to its main concepts, such as average and vulnerable consumers, unfairness, and product risks. Upon reading you may expect to start being able to place this research area within the legal architecture of European private law. You are encouraged to think about the impact of selected issues on consumer protection, including such issues as consumer apathy in enforcing rights, digitalisation, and climate change. Throughout, you are given points for reflection to encourage further reading and help with understanding the content.

Contributors

Joasia Luzak

(author)
Professor of Private Law at University of Exeter
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3524-7340

Prof. Dr. Joasia Luzak is Professor of Private Law, the Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), and Director of Global Engagement for the Law School of the University of Exeter. She is also a Guest Associate Professor at the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law (ACT) at the University of Amsterdam. At this university, as of 2015, she was a Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (predecessor of ACT), as well as the Director of the European Private Law LL.M. program. Her research interests include European consumer law, contract law, and law on internet and digital markets. See https://experts.exeter. ac.uk/25252-joasia-luzak