Marco Loos

University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)

Professor of private law, in particular of European Consumer Law

P.O. Box 1030

Amsterdam, 1000 BA

Netherlands

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1.

Effective Enforcement of Consumer Law in Europe: Synchronizing Private, Public, and Collective Mechanisms

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Jan 2008
Willem H. Van Boom and Marco Loos
Radboud University Nijmegen - Faculty of Law and University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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European law, consumer law, enforcement, remedies

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Full Harmonisation as a Regulatory Concept and its Consequences for the National Legal Orders: The Example of the Consumer Rights Directive

Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2010/03
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2011
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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European Consumer Law, Full Harmonisation, Consumer Protection, Consumer Rights Directive

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Rights of Withdrawal

Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2009/04
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Feb 2009
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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European contract law, consumer law, right of withdrawal

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Review of the European Consumer Acquis

Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2008/03
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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European contract law, consumer law, acquis communautaire

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Unfair Contract Terms in B2C Contracts

ad hoc briefing paper for the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, May 2012, PE 462.452, 23 p. , Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2012-68, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2012-07
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2012
Martijn W. Hesselink and Marco Loos
European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW) and University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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CESL, Unfair terms, B2C contracts, consumer sales

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Standard Contract Terms Regulation in the Proposal for a Common European Sales Law

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 2012(4), pp. 776-796, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2012-65, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2012-04
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2013
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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Standard contract terms, Common European Sales Law, Vienna Sales Convention, Unfair terms Directive, DCFR, Incorporation of standard terms, Unfair terms

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Wanted: A Bigger Stick. On Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts with Online Service Providers

Journal of Consumer Policy 2016/1, p. 63-90
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2016
Marco Loos and Joasia Luzak
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) and University of Exeter - School of Law
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Consumer contracts; unfair contract terms; online service providers; compliance; private international law

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Commercial Sales: The Common European Sales Law Compared to the Vienna Sales Convention

European Review of Private Law, Forthcoming, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 14, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 96
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Oct 2012
Marco Loos and Harriët Schelhaas
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) and Utrecht University - School of Law
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CESL, CISG, commercial sales, contract law

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Study on Consumers’ Attitudes Towards Terms Conditions (T&Cs) Final Report

Report for the European Commission, Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (Chafea) on behalf of Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers.
Number of pages: 184 Posted: 10 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2016
Maartje Elshout, Millie Elsen, Jorna Leenheer, Marco Loos and Joasia Luzak
CentERdata, CentERdata, Avans University, University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) and University of Exeter - School of Law
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Terms and conditions (T&C's), Unfair Contract Terms Directive (UCDT), Consumer Rights Directive (CRD)

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European Harmonisation of Online and Distance Selling of Goods and the Supply of Digital Content

Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2016-27, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2016-08
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Jun 2016
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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Online Sales, Distance Sales, Supply of Digital Content, European Consumer Law, Harmonisation

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Consumer Sales Law in the Proposal for a Consumer Rights Directive

European Review of Private Law, Forthcoming, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2009/07
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 Jun 2009
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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consumer sales, proposal Directive on Consumer Rights, European contract law

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Digital Content Contracts for Consumers

Journal of Consumer Policy, Forthcoming, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2012-05, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2012-66
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Jun 2012
Marco Loos, Chantal Mak, Lucie Guibault, Lodewijk Pessers and Natali Helberger
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), Schulich School of Law, University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR) and University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR)
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Digital content, Consumer law, General contract law, Copyright law, Telecommunications law

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Sales Law in the DCFR

Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2010/04
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Jul 2010
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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European Contract Law, Sales Law, DCFR

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The Influence of European Consumer Law on General Contract Law and the Need for Spontaneous Harmonisation: On the Disturbance and Reconstruction of the Coherence of National Contract Law and Consumer Law Under the Influence of European Law

Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper No. 2006/02
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 07 Mar 2007
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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spontaneous harmonisation, European contract law, consumer law, influence of European consumer law on national general contract law

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Individual Private Enforcement of Consumer Rights in Civil Courts in Europe

Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2010/01
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 14 Jan 2010
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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European private law, enforcement, consumer rights

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The Modernization of European Consumer Law: A Pig in a Poke?

European Review of Private Law (to be published in 2019/1), Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2018-26, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper No. 2018-05, Law and Justice Across Borders Research Paper No. 2018-05
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Oct 2018
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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Consumer protection, new deal, Modernization Directive, fitness check

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The Regulation of Digital Content B2C Contracts in CESL

Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2013-10, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2013-60
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Oct 2013
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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common European Sales Law, Digital content, Information obligations, Unfair terms, Non-conformity, Remedies

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Consumer ADR after Implementation of the ADR Directive: Enforcing European Consumer Rights at the Detriment of European Consumer Law

European Review of Private Law 2016/1, p. 61-80, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2015-42, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2015-11
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 04 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2016
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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Alternative dispute resolution (ADR), contract law, consumer law, EU consumer rights

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Service Contracts

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Jan 2010
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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European private law, contract law, European civil code, service contracts

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The Modernization of European Consumer Law (Continued): More Meat on the Bone after All

Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2019-32, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper No. 2019-09
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 19 Dec 2019
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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New Deal, European Consumer Law, Consumer Protection, European Commission, Enforcement of Consumer Rights

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Remedies for Buyers in Case of Contracts for the Supply of Digital Content

ad hoc briefing paper for the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, May 2012, PE 462.459, 25 p., Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2012-71, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2012-08
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Jun 2012
Chantal Mak and Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) and University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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digital content, Common European Sales Law, consumer, conformity, remedies

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Positive Integration: Harmonization of National Law Through Directives and Regulations

Forthcoming in: Marija Bartl, Laura Burgers and Chantal Mak (eds) Uncovering European private law. European private law handbook., Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2022-50, Amsterdam Centre for Transformative private law Working Paper No. 2022-09
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 Dec 2022
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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harmonization, private law, internal market, regulation, directive

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Standard Terms for the Use of the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store

Journal of European Consumer and Market Law, issue 1/2016, pp. 10-15., Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2016-06, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2016-16
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 08 Mar 2016
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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platform service provider, standard terms, unfair terms, app store

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Consumer Sales in the Netherlands after Implementation of the Consumer Rights Directive and with a View to the Future Common European Sales Law

Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2014-12, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2014-53
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Oct 2014
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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Consumer sales, consumer rights directive, Common European Sales Law

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Right of Withdrawal – Interoperability of Directives

E. Terryn, G. Straetmans, V. Colaert (eds.), Landmark cases of EU consumer law. In honour of Jules Stuyck, Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, pp. 545-558, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2013-11, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2013-61
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Oct 2013
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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right of withdrawal, CJEU, case C-423/97, Travel Vac, [1999] ECR p. I-2195, Case note to old landmark case

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Scope and Application of the Optional Instrument

VERS UN DROIT EUROPÉEN DES CONTRATS SPÉCIAUX/TOWARDS A EUROPEAN LAW OF SPECIFIC CONTRACTS, D. Voinot and J. Sénéchal, eds., 2011 , Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2011-14, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2011/09
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Jul 2011
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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Optional Instrument, European Contract Law, B2B- and B2C-contracts

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The Language of Standard Contract Terms in Online B2C-Contracts

Book chapter in M.B.M. Loos (ed.), New International Perspectives in Standard Terms Legislation, Cambridge: Intersentia, Forthcoming , Amsterdam Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-45, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper No. 2016-09
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 05 Oct 2016
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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standard contract terms, language, transparency requirement, experimental testing of consumer behaviour

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Consumer Sales and Digital Contracts in The Netherlands after Transposition of the Directives on Digital Content and Sale of Goods

Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 16, 2022, Amsterdam Centre for Transformative private law Working Paper No. 03, 2022
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Jul 2022
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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consumer sales law, digital content contracts, consumer protection, European consumer law, transposition, Dutch law

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Precontractual Information Obligations for Package Travel Contracts

In: Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML), issue 3/2016, pp. 125-130., Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2016-60, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2016-13
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 26 Oct 2016
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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Package Travel Directive, European contract law, Consumer law, travel contracts, information obligations

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Rubbish or Recycling? Furthering Sustainability by Developing Specific Provisions for the Sale of Second-hand Goods

Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 15, 2022, Amsterdam Centre for Transformative private law Working Paper No. 02, 2022
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Jul 2022
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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consumer sales law, consumer protection, European consumer law, second-hand goods, sustainability, public auction, liability period

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Europese harmonisatie van online en op afstand verkoop van zaken en de levering van digitale inhoud (I) en (II) (European Harmonisation of Online and Distance Selling of Goods and the Supply of Digital Content (I) and (II))

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees Recht (NTER), 2016/3, pp. 114-120 (deel 1) en 2016/4, pp. 148-156 (deel 2)., Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2016-14, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2016-61
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Dec 2016
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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Online sales, Distance sales, Supply of digital content, European consumer law, Harmonisation

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New International Perspectives in Standard Terms Legislation, an Introduction

M.B.M. Loos (ed.), New International Perspectives in Standard Terms Legislation, Cambridge: Intersentia (2016), Forthcoming, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2016-46, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 04 Oct 2016
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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Unfair contract terms, Fitness check, Overview of case-law of CJEU, Fundamental rights and consumer protection

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Naar Een Optioneel Instrument (Towards an Optional Instrument?) (in Dutch)

HET GROENBOEK EUROPEES CONTRACTENRECHT: NAAR EEN OPTIONEEL INSTRUMENT?, M.W. Hesselink, A.A.H. van Hoek, M.B.M. Loos & A.F. Salomons, eds., pp. 157-176, Den Haag: Boom Juridische Uitgevers, 2011, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2011-13, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Working Paper Series No. 2011-08
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Jul 2011
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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European Contract Law, Optional Instrument, B2B- and B2C-contracts, Consumer Rights Directive

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Harmonization of Private Law in the 2020s: Targeted Full Harmonization 2.0?

Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2022-14, Amsterdam Centre for Transformative private law Working Paper No. 2022-01
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 07 Jul 2022
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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European private law, European law, harmonization, internal market, consumer protection, consumer law

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Repairing Consumer Sales Law

Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2024-38, Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law Working Paper No. 2024-03, Forthcoming in European Review of Private Law
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Oct 2024
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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repair, right to repair, consumer law, consumer sales, sustainability

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The (proposed) transposition of the Digital Content Directive in The Netherlands

to be published in Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology, and Electronic Commerce Law (Jipitec), Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2021-15, Amsterdam Centre for Transformative private law Working Paper No. 2021-05
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Jun 2021
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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European consumer law, digital content, digital services, Dutch law, transposition, Directive 2019/770

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One Day I’ll Fly Away… Voucher Schemes for Cancelled Package Travel Contracts after the Outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic

to be published in Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML), Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2021-13, Amsterdam Centre for Transformative private law Working Paper No. 2021-03
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 15 Jun 2021
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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European consumer law, covid-19 crisis, package travel contracts, vouchers, reimbursement, termination, cancellation

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Homeward Bound: Package Travel and Unforeseen Circumstances Case Note to Geschillencommissie Reizen 22 September 2020, Reference Code 9916/33919, and to Geschillencommissie Reizen 30 September 2020, Reference Code 28181/33982

to be published in REDC - European Journal of Consumer Law, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2021-14, Amsterdam Centre for Transformative private law Working Paper No. 2021-04
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 15 Jun 2021
Marco Loos
University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
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European consumer law, covid-19 crisis, package travel contracts, ADR, unforeseen circumstances, termination, cancellation