MEPLI-HiiL conference Consumers without borders

Kawakami, M. (Organiser), Goanta, C. (Organiser), Bull, W. (Organiser)

Activity: Organizing, contributing or attending an event › Organizing or contributing to an event › Academic

Period	25 Sep 2015
Event type	Conference
Degree of Recognition	International

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In an ever-globalizing world, consumers are faced with fewer and fewer physical borders: whether this entails shopping online beyond their own national jurisdictions, or actually travelling from one jurisdiction to another in the era of low-cost flights and budget holidays. With more international consumers on the move – literally or in the virtual world – law faces inherent challenges: should these developments be the drivers of a new wave of legal globalization, and if so, what would this look like? In what we call ‘Freedom of Contract 2.0’, today, we can contract not only with who we want about what we want, but we have the tools, the technology and the means to actually take advantage of this theoretical construct in reality. While this expansion of tangible choice for consumers increases and augments our capabilities, this development comes with its own questions, which lie at the core of this conference: what is the role of the law in addressing the issues faced by the contemporary consumer, and who should be its maker?