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Rethinking Consumers in Global Production

Connecting Value Chains

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The book explores the relationship between consumer law and global value chains (GVCs). Conceptually rigorous, it analyses EU approaches to regulation and to consumer policy oriented to safety, sustainability and market regulation. In so doing, it throws the disconnect between GVCs and consumer law into sharp relief. In response, the author argues that GVCs are a plausible venue for reconsidering consumers as regulatory actors in the global economy. This would enable both consumer protection and EU's decentralised social ordering (based on private regulation) to be accommodated. Innovative and thought-provoking, this is an important contribution to debates on EU consumer law.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. GVCs as the object of regulation
3. Consumers in GVCs: assessing the status quo
4. The normativity behind reconnecting consumers and GVCs
5. Imagining consumers as regulatory subjects in GVCs
6. From consumption to prosumption in GVCs

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Published 18 Mar 2027
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 224
ISBN 9781509992492
Imprint Hart Publishing
Series The Future of Private Law
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Rebecca Ravalli

Rebecca Ravalli is Post-Doctoral Researcher, Facul…

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