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Consumer Contract Penalties

Consumer Contract Penalties is a legal construct in contract law that refers to a pre-determined sum or sanction stipulated in an agreement between a seller and a consumer, enforceable upon the consumer's breach, and distinguished from general penalty clauses by its specific application within consumer contracts where regulatory scrutiny is heightened to prevent unfairness and protect weaker contracting parties.

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9

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2017–2026

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Publications

12

The Community Directive on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts: Some Critical Remarks on the Proposal Submitted by the EC Commission

Peter Ulmer, Hans Erich Brandner · Common Market Law Review · 1991 · 55 citations

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Catching up with consumer realities: The need for legislation prohibiting unfair terms in consumer contracts

Nicola Howell · Australian business law review · 2006 · 41 citations · Full text

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No Contract?

Oren Bar‐Gill, Omri Ben‐Shahar · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2013 · 39 citations · Full text

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Why Unilateral Variation Clauses in Consumer Contracts are Unfair

Jeannie Paterson, Rhonda L. Smith · 2016 · 33 citations

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The Unfair Contract Term Provisions: What's Transparency Got to do with it?

Peter Sise · QUT Law Review · 2017 · 32 citations · Full text

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Authors

15

  1. SI
    Shmuel I. Becher

    Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    2 publications · 29 citations

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  2. HM
    Hans‐W. Micklitz

    European University Institute, Italy

    1 publications · 30 citations

    1

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  3. JP
    Jeannie Paterson

    The University of Melbourne, Australia

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  4. AD
    Anne De Moor

    1 publications · 18 citations

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  5. CW
    Chris Willett

    University of Essex, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 18 citations

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Institutions

9

  1. Victoria University of Wellington

    Wellington, New Zealand

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    29 citations

  2. New York Law School

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    39 citations

  3. Louisiana State University

    Baton Rouge, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  4. Deutsche Energy Agency (Germany)

    Berlin, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    30 citations

  5. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    39 citations

  6. University of Bamberg

    Bamberg, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    30 citations

  7. Clayton Foundation

    Geneva, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    32 citations

  8. New York University

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    39 citations

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Venues

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  2. QUT Law Review

    1 publications · 32 citations

    1

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  3. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 1 publications · 39 citations

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  4. Journal of Consumer Policy

    1 publications · 30 citations

    1

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  5. Figshare

    Repository · 1 publications · 16 citations

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