USURY - EU Research finances studies on social contract law in the UK. Call for Papers for a Promising conference in Durham, "Conceptualising Unconscionability in Europe", on 8-9 September 2008. Good news: New studies on social contract law are beginning in the UK. Please find attached a call for papers for a very promising conference in Durham, "Conceptualising Unconscionability in Europe", on 8-9 September 2008. This conference is organised by Dr. Mel Kenny (University of Durham). Mel Kenny was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Bremen, within the Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge project "Protection from Unfair Suretyships in the European Union", coordinated by Gert Brueggemeier, Stephen Weatherill and myself. He has successfully raised EC funding for a new Marie Curie project on the protection of the vulnerable in financial transactions, based at the University of Durham. Paper proposals for the Durham conference (max. 300 words) can be submitted before 1 May 2008 to Mel Kenny (mel.kenny@durham.ac.uk). Members of the Social Justice Group including the EuSoCo group get a chance to deepen there insight into those parts of consumer protection in financial services which go beyond the neo-liberal information model and refer to the traditional usury approach in credit law. It would be good if this opportunity is also used to include the sister questions in labour law on minimum wages and in tenant law on rent regulation which is very common in continental Europe and beyond. The Roman Law hold the laesio enormis rule sacred which reduced the implications of market economies to exploit the weakness of ordinary people. It is time to reflect on it since DG SANCO keeps these three areas of law outside the search for a EU-led European contract law. (for the Munster project see link below) ID: 40999 Author(s): UR Publication date: 11/03/08     Programme Unconscionability Conference in Durham (89557 Bytes) URL(s): Information on CoPECL Conference on European Contract Law

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