The regulatory character of European private law

EU consumer law and technology

“…Accordingly, the relevant consumer rules do not aspire for coherence as an end in itself, but rather follow an instrumentalist rationality, characterising EU law (Michaels, 2011;cf. Weatherill, 2012;Comparato, Micklitz & Svetiev, 2016;Brownsword, 2019). At the same time, this close entanglement with the European project has also left its mark on the substance of the adopted rules.…”