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Unconscionability in European Private Financial Transactions : Protecting the Vulnerable.

This collection presents a detailed analysis of European concepts of unconscionability in financial transactions, against a backdrop of harmonisation initiatives.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kenny, Mel
Otros Autores: Devenney, James, Fox O'Mahony, Lorna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: conceptualising unconscionability in Europe; Part I: Conceptualising unconscionability; 1 Freedom of contract as freedom from unconscionable contracts; 2 Protection of weaker parties in English law; 3 Freedom of contract, unequal bargaining power and consumer law on unconscionability; 4 Loyalty as a tool to combat contractual unfairness: a French perspective; 5 Unconscionability and the value of choice; 6 From individual conduct to transactional risk: some relational thoughts about unconscionability and regulation.
  • 7 An economic perspective on legal remedies for unconscionable contractsPart II: Conceptualising unconscionability in financial transactions; 8 Usury and the judicial regulation of financial transactions in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England; 9 Protection of the vulnerable in financial transactions what the common law vitiating factors can do for you; 10 Borrowers as consumers:new notions of unconscionabi.