Contract Law

Point and Click: e-Commerce Consumer Protection in Italy

ILSU Working Paper No. 2008-13/EN
by MARCO BASSINI

The paper contains an analysis of the efforts undertaken by the Italian legislator in the last few decades – spurred also by the enactment of European directives on the matter – to establish a progressively more precise, but ultimately stratified and precarious, regulatory framework with respect to a phenomenon [...]


Chronicles of a Failure: From a Renegotiation Clause to Arbitration of Transnational Contracts

ILSU Working Paper No. 2008-11/EN 
(forthcoming in Connecticut Journal of International Law, vol. 24, 2008 )
by LUIGI RUSSI

The present paper recounts the various steps which parties to a transnational contract containing a renegotiation clause may need to go through, should the circumstances accounted for in the renegotiation clause come to existence. To this end, the article [...]


Information Duties in Providing Investment Services to Retail Customers

ILSU Working Paper No. 2008-02/IT
by FEDERICO LONGOBARDI

After discussing in general terms the value of information in financial markets, the present paper analyses conduct rules under article 21(b) of Italian decree 58/1998 and articles 26, 28 and 29 of Italian financial intermediaries regulation (containing the so-called “know your customer rule”, “know your merchandise rule”, “suitability rule”). [...]