List of Contributors

Giuseppe Abbamonte is the head of the unit in the European Commission, DG SANCO, responsible for the consumer acquis, including the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive.

Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt holds a degree in law from Sofia University, an LLM degree from the European University Institute, Florence, and a doctoral degree in law from Stockholm University. She is Associate Professor at Örebro and Stockholm Universities and is currently a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. Her research focuses on European and comparative market, consumer and intellectual property law, with particular interest in the impact of Europeanisation on national law and institutions.

Ulf Bernitz is Professor of European Law at Stockholm University and Director of the Oxford/Stockholm Wallenberg Venture in European Law at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford. He has written books and articles in the fields of marketing, competition and consumer law and chaired the Commission that prepared the present Swedish Marketing Practices Act.

Ida Otken Eriksson is a Doctoral Candidate in the University of Stockholm. Previously she was a legal secretary at the European Court of Justice (Cabinet Gulmann), and in private practice.

Geraint Howells is professor of Law at Lancaster University and a barrister at Gough Square Chambers. He has written and lectured widely on consumer law and regularly acts as consultant to various governmental and non-governmental bodies. With Hans Micklitz and Thomas Wilhemsson he has written European Fair Trading Law: The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive.

Vanessa Marsland is a partner at Clifford Chance LLP.

Hans-W Micklitz occupies the Lehrstuhl für Privatund Wirtschaftsrecht, Jean Monnet Chair on European Economic Law at the University of Bamberg, and is Head of VIEW (Institute for European Consumer and Economic Law).

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Ulf Öberg is founder of and partner in Öberg & Associés AB; he is a doctoral candidate at Stockholm University; and former référendaire to Judge Hans Ragnemalm at the European Court of Justice.

Deborah Parry is an independent consultant in consumer law, and was formerly a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Hull.

Jules Stuyck is Professor of European and Economic Law at the K U Leuven (where he is director of the Study Centre for Consumer Law and of the LL M programme), Professor of European law at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Visiting Professor of EU Competition Law at the Central European University, Budapest, and partner in Liedekerke.Wolters. Waelbroeck.Kirkpatrick, Brussels.

Christian Twigg-Flesner is a Senior Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Hull.

Christopher Wadlow MA, PhD (Cantab) is a Reader at the Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia. He was previously a member of the intellectual property department of Simmons & Simmons. He is the author of

The Law of Passing-off: Unfair Competition by Misrepresentation (3rd edn London, Sweet & Maxwell, 2004).

Stephen Weatherill is the Jacques Delors Professor of European Law in the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Somerville College and Deputy Director for European Law in the Institute of European and Comparative Law.

Simon Whittaker is Fellow and Tutor in Law at St John’s College, Oxford, and Reader in European Comparative Law at the University of Oxford. His interests lie in the areas of the English law of contract and tort, comparative law and the European harmonisation of private law.