A obra reúne estudos dos membros do Comitê de Relações de Consumo do IBRAC que analisam os principais temas das relações de consumo no Brasil após 30 anos da promulgação do Código de Defesa do Consumidor.

Esta legislação específica, a LGPD, nasceu, como não poderia deixar de ser, tributária de uma larga experiência da defesa do consumidor no Brasil relacionada à proteção de dados pessoais, o que se depreende até literalmente de diversas previsões da lei, inspiradas diretamente por esta experiência. A presente obra, cujos co-autores possuem larga experiência em matéria de defesa do consumidor e também concorrencial, simboliza uma parte desta "passagem do bastão" entre uma tradição de direito do consumidor e uma nova matéria de proteção de dados que se forma incorporando alguns dos elementos daquela, porém dotada de autonomia e mirando objetivos diversos. Neste livro, foram criteriosamente abordados aspectos da LGPD nos quais esta mudança de perspectiva e a pertinência de se levar em conta a herança anterior é particularmente forte. Assim, temas como o direito à informação, o papel do consentimento, a responsabilidade civil, o sistema sancionatório, a função de autoridades administrativas (incluíndo os órgãos do Sistema Nacional de Defesa do Consumidor) na aplicação da lei são, entre diversos outros temas, abordados, perfazendo uma primeira leitura da nova legislação informada pela experiência anteriormente consolidada. (Danilo Doneda)

O livro aborda a questão do abuso de posição dominante enfrentada pelas autoridades antitruste no mundo diante da moderna economia digital. Big data, blockchain, algoritmos, inteligência artificial, verticalização, fake news, entre outros, são alguns dos maiores desafios da autoridade antitruste no Brasil.

The rapid development of new information and communication technologies has changed people’s everyday life and consumption patterns significantly. The worldwide spread of those technologies provides many innovations for consumers, but it can also bear risks, such as the indiscriminate collection, storage and cross-border flow of personal data, illegal spying on Internet activities, dissemination of personal information, and abuse of user passwords. The study deals with the current state of consumer data protection law in Brazil, China and Germany from a comparative perspective. It covers the main legal issues of consumer privacy and data protection in these countries and seeks to explain current issues and case law concerning consumer data protection from a practical perspective.

This book demonstrates that marketing scholarship has much to contribute to our understanding of consumer vulnerability and potential solutions. It brings to the fore ways in which so‐called vulnerable consumers navigate various marketplace and service interactions and develop specific consumer skills in order to empower themselves in such exchanges. It does so by exploring how consumer vulnerability is experienced across a range of different contexts such as poverty and disability, and the potential impact of vulnerability from childhood to old age. Other chapters extend focus from the consumer to the organisational perspective or consider more macro issues such as socio-spatial disadvantages. The fundamental aim of many of the contributors is to produce work that can benefit individual and societal well-being. They draw on various methodological approaches that generate both marketing management and policy-focused implications. A series of commentaries are also included to stimulate critical reflection and new insights into consumer vulnerability. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Marketing Management.

This book reflects the research output of the Committee on the International Protection of Consumers of the International Law Association (ILA). The Committee was created in 2008, with a mandate to study the role of public and private law to protect consumers, review UN Guidelines, and to model laws, international treaties and national legislations concerning protection and consumer redress. It has been accepted to act as an observer not only when the UNCTAD was updating its guidelines, but also at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. The book includes the contributions of various Committee members in the past few years and is a result of the cooperation between the Committee members and experts from Australia, Brazil, Canada and China. It is divided into three parts: the first part addresses trends and challenges in international protection of consumers, while the second part focuses on financial crises and consumer protection and the third part examines national and regional consumer law issues.

ÔThis volume provides a welcome overview of the diverse ways in which informal practices and norms shape policy in national states, the European Union, and international relations. The wide range of cases that feature in the volume point to the normative and substantive importance of informality. This volume is a valuable contribution to a fascinating and under-researched topic.Õ Ð Gary Marks, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, US and VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands Acknowledging that governance relies not only on formal rules and institutions but to a significant degree also on informal practices and arrangements, this unique Handbook examines and analyses a wide variety of theoretical, conceptual and normative perspectives on informal governance. The insights arising from this focus on informal governance are discussed from various disciplinary perspectives, within different policy domains, and in a number of regional and global contexts. This Handbook is an important contribution that will put informal governance firmly on the map of academic scholarship with its review of the range of the different uses and effects of informal arrangements across the globe. Bringing together multidisciplinary contributions on informal governance arrangements, this Handbook will appeal to postgraduate students in political science and scholars within the field of political science and global governance.