Study grade: 1.
Year of study: 1.
Compulsory optional module
The aim of the course is to apply theoretical knowledge from the interdisciplinary field of consumer protection in solving specific problems of the current consumer market.
Brief module description
- Sources of consumer law, consumer as a subject of law
- Principles for the protection of the weaker party in private law
- Consumer protection in civil/commercial law
- Consumer contracts
- Institute of good manners and unacceptable conditions in consumer contracts
- Consumer protection limits in contract law
- The regulation of unfair commercial practices in the Consumer Protection Act vs. general unfair competition clause in the Commercial Code
- Public consumer protection
- "Vulnerable" consumer
- Consumer protection tools
- Trends in consumer protection on the European platform
- Consumer in the light of recodification of private law
- From Slovak and European case law with emphasis on the issue of unfair commercial practices and advertising
