James P. Nehf has been teaching contracts, consumer law, and commercial law subjects for more than thirty years. He is an internationally recognized expert in secured transactions, consumer privacy, and consumer financial services law. He has won numerous teaching awards and has been a frequent speaker at law conferences, CLE seminars, and law-related lecture series. Professor Nehf was the inaugural director of the law school's European Law Program and has held several university administrative positions, including a term as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the law school and as director of the Indiana University Center on Southeast Asia. Professor Nehf’s publications include a leading multi-volume commercial law treatise, Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code (principal author and editor), an updated and revised edition of Corbin on Contracts—The Impossibility Doctrine, a book on privacy law, Open Book: The Failed Promise of Information Privacy in America, and numerous book chapters and articles on commercial law, consumer finance, privacy law, low-income consumer transactions, and international/comparative law subjects. He currently serves on the editorial board for the Markets and Law Series at Ashgate Publishing. Professor Nehf graduated first in his law school class, served as editor-in-chief of the North Carolina Law Review, and was elected to Order of the Coif. After law school, he worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and entered private practice with O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. Before joining the faculty in 1989, he was a partner in the Washington firm of Choate, Filler, & Nehf, specializing in commercial and consumer litigation. Professor Nehf has also taught as a visiting professor at Wake Forest University, Mercer University, and the University of Georgia.

Claudia Lima Marques holds the Private International Law and Law of International Relation Chair at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul at Porto Alegre, Brazil. She has a phD. from Heidelberg (Germany) and a LL.M. from Tübingen Law School (Germany). She is the author of seven books in consumer law and has written numerous articles on civil law (contracts, torts and family law), on conflicts of laws and consumer law issues.

Sebastián Barocelli holds a PhD in Law from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) in Argentina, where he is Associate Professor (by public competition) in Civil and Commercial Contracts and Elements of Civil Law. He is Full Professor of Civil and Commercial Contracts and Market Regulatory Law at the Universidad del Salvador (USAL) in Argentina, where he also serves as Director of the Law Program, Director of the Master’s Degree in Civil Law, and Director of the Diploma in Consumer Law. He teaches Contract Law at the National University of Avellaneda (UNDAV) in Argentina and is a postgraduate and doctoral professor at UBA, as well as at USAL, UCA, and UNLaPam. He is also an Associate Researcher at the “Ambrosio L. Gioja” Institute (UBA).
He is  Academic Secretary of the Argentine Institute of Consumer Law (IADC). He was National Director of Consumer Protection and Consumer Arbitration in Argentina (January 2020–February 2022), and is currently in charge of the Consumer Law Studies Department at the Public Defender's Office of the City of Buenos Aires.
He has served as Head of the Argentine Delegation and Pro Tempore President of MERCOSUR’s Technical Committee on Consumer Protection, as well as Representative and President of the OAS’s Consumer Safety and Health Network (RCSS), and the Ibero-American Forum of Government Consumer Agencies (FIAGC). He represented Argentina before the UNCTAD Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Consumer Law and Policy and before the OECD’s Consumer Policy Committee (2020–2022). He also served as technical advisor to the G20 Digital Economy Working Group.
He has been invited as an expert and speaker by UNCTAD, the Argentine and Peruvian Congresses, Juriscope (France), and GIZ (Germany), and has taught or lectured in Argentina, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, the United States, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Prof. Barocelli has directed eight research projects on consumer protection, authored or co-authored 14 books, and published over one hundred articles in Argentina and abroad. He is Co-Director of the Revista Argentina de Derecho del Consumidor Journal. He has held positions in all three branches of the Argentine government at both national and local levels over the past two decades.

Felicia Nwanne Monye is a Professor of Law at the University of Nigeria. She has a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Lagos, a Master of Laws Degree from the University of Nigeria and a Doctoral Degree in Law from the University of Lagos. Professor Monye teaches the Law of Consumer Protection, Commercial Law and Carriage of Goods by Sea in the Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. She is a consumer protection advocate and has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences on the subject. She is a consultant to some international organisations on consumer protection and enjoys a good working relationship with many consumer protection agencies in Nigeria including the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). She is a Board Member of the International Association of Consumer Law, a global association of consumer law experts. She was a principal researcher in the project: “Strengthening Consumer Protection in Three West African Countries for Social and Economic Justice” conducted in collaboration with the Consumers International with support from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), 2013 – 2014. She was a representative of the Consumer Stakeholder Group on the ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Guidance Standard formulated by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) along with its member countries and liaison organisations. Her academic prizes and other awards include the Lebadeon Proficiency Prize (Ilesha Grammar School, Ilesha); Federal Merit Award (University of Lagos); Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Grant for Thesis Writing (Senegal); Consumer Rights Advocacy Award (conferred by the Consumer Protection Council) and Consumer Rights Protection Activities Award by the Nigerian Communications Commission. Professor Monye is a prolific writer. Her publications include: Law of Consumer Protection; Commercial Law; 59th Inaugural Lecture of the University of Nigeria; and numerous journal articles.   She was the Editor-in-Chief of The Nigerian Law Journal, a Journal of the Nigerian Association of Law Teachers (2011 – 2015) as well as Consumer Journal, a publication of the Consumer Awareness Organisation, Enugu. She was the Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, from 2010 – 2012. She is the President of the Consumer Awareness Organisation, a voluntary consumer association dedicated to consumer awareness creation and other issues of consumer concern. She is married with children.

Professor Christine Riefa is a professor of law specialising in consumer and e-commerce/new tech law. She is widely published on these topics. Her books include: Vulnerable Consumers and the Law: Consumer Protection and Access to Justice, edited with S. Saintier (Routledge 2021); Consumer Theories of Harm – An economic approach to consumer law enforcement and policy making (Hart 2019) with P. Siciliani and H. Gamper; Consumer Protection and Online Auction Platforms – towards a safer legal framework (Routledge 2016). Prof.  Riefa has acted as a consultant in a number of projects on various aspects of electronic commerce and new technologies for Consumers International, UNCTAD, BEUC, the European Commission and the EU Parliament, and national governments. She currently is the Coordinator of the UNCTAD Working Group on consumer protection in electronic commerce as part of UNCTAD Inter-Governmental Group of experts. She is one of the co-founding editors of the  Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML), a peer-reviewed Journal, published by Beck and available on Kluwer Online. She has been a Fulbright Scholar (Cleveland Marshall, Ohio, USA) and a Visiting Fellow of the Max Planck Institute (Hamburg, Germany). She holds a PhD in Market Law (competition and consumer laws) from the University of Montpellier, France.

Dan Wei is Full Professor of Faculty of Law of the University of Macau. Her specialties include international trade law, international investment law, consumer protection, competition law, arbitration and Chinese law. Wei is Arbitrator of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Invited Expert of Ascertainment of Foreign Law of the Center for Ascertainment of Foreign Law of the Supreme People’s Court of China, Elected Director of China Association for Consumer Protection Research of China Law Society and Expert-Collaborator of National Secretariat for Consumers of Ministry of Justice of Brazil. Currently, she acts as the Rapporteur of the Committee of International Protection of Consumers of International Law Association (ILA).

Iris Benöhr is Full Professor of Law at the University of Southampton and Director of Internationalisation at Southampton Law School. Previously, she held academic positions as Deputy Director of the Institute for Competition and Consumer (ICC) at Queen Mary University of London and as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on international and European consumer law and its intersections with financial regulation, digitalisation, redress, and sustainable development. She has published widely on these topics in academic journals and with major publishers, including Oxford University Press and Hart Publishing. She also advises international organisations on consumer protection and recently contributed to a Commonwealth-funded project to strengthen consumer rights in the CARICOM region.

Malo Depincé est Directeur du Laboratoire Innovation Communication et Marché.
Professeur à l’Université de Montpellier, il a été Directeur Adjoint puis Directeur de l’UMR Dynamique du droit (CNRS et Université de Montpellier) et est également assesseur décanal pour l’Intelligence Artificielle de la Faculté de Droit et de Science politique depuis 2024.

Titulaire du Master concurrence consommation et docteur en droit (le principe de précaution, 2004), il enseigne le droit de la consommation, le droit de la concurrence, le droit de l’alimentation ainsi que le droit des affaires de l’Union Européenne. Spécialiste reconnu de droit du marché, il est coauteur d’un manuel de droit de la consommation (Dalloz) et d’un autre de droit de la concurrence (LexisNexis).

Il dirige le Master consommation et concurrence ainsi que le Master droit de l’alimentation et de l’agroécologie.

Il parle couramment l’anglais et pratique l’espagnol.

Expertise publique

Malo Depincé a été membre du Jury de Déontologie Publicitaire (JDP) de l’Autorité de Régulation Professionnelle de la Publicité (ARPP) pendant plus de dix ans, il a également assuré deux mandats au sein de la Commission des clauses abusives (CCA) et a siégé au Conseil d’administration de la Société Scientifique d’Hygiène Alimentaire (SSHA). Il est aujourd’hui membre du Conseil National de l’Alimentation (CNA),

Recherches

Ses recherches portent notamment sur les nouveaux comportements de consommation et les contrats qui sont proposés aux consommateurs, l’alimentation durable et l’intelligence artificielle dans les métiers du droit.

Spécialités : droit privé, droit de la consommation et de la promotion des ventes, droit de la concurrence, droit de l’environnement, droit des affaires, conseil et contentieux.

Doctor in Law at the University of Oviedo (Spain), with honours and awarded by Sancho Rebullida Prize, and Bachelor of Law from the University of Pisa (Italy) and the University of Oviedo (Spain). Professor in Spain, Chile, and now Italy, is an Associate Professor at Università di Pavia. He has been teaching all the main areas of private Law in Spain, at the University of Oviedo (2004-2011) and at the University of Girona (2011-2015), where he taught in Spanish, Catalan, and English. He has also been an associate professor of private and comparative Law at the University Alberto Hurtado (2015-2020) in Santiago de Chile, where he has also been head of the private law department (2019-2020), and since the end of 2020 he is associate professor of private comparative Law at University of Pavia, Italy—admitted to Italian and Spanish Bar and Indipendent Arbitrator. He has been a visiting professor and has held several conferences in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He is in charge of the Obligations and Contracts Section of the Institute of Ibero-American Law (IDIBE); Member of Advisory Board of the Association des Alumni et des Amis de l’Institut Suisse de Droit Comparé (Lausanne, Switzerland). He was also a member of the Study Group that elaborated the Principles of Latin American Contract Law. Assignment of the Italian authorized translation of «UNCITRAL, HCCH and UNITROIT Legal Guide to Uniform Instruments in the Area of International Commercial Contracts, with a Focus on Sales. Since May 2024, he has been a member of the Tribunal Supremo of the Chilean Cámara Nacional de Comercio (CNC). He is currently a member of the working group and drafting committee on the project to modernise the Luxembourg civil code regarding the reform of the Law of contracts. He published six books and more than 150 scientific contributions, and was a member of several associations, including the European Law Institute (ELI) since 2011, and the International Academy of Comparative Law. Contact: alfredo.ferrante@unipv.it

Nicola is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School, Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Nicola’s research focuses on legal and policy issues in consumer financial services, consumer credit and other consumer transactions, and personal insolvency. Her doctorate was awarded by Melbourne University Law School, and explored the impact of on consumers of different debt resolution options. Nicola is a co-author of a key text on Australian consumer credit law (‘Duggan and Lanyon’s Consumer Credit Law’) and has published widely on consumer and personal insolvency topics. Nicola is also a regular contributor to relevant policy and law reform processes. Nicola teaches in the undergraduate program, with teaching responsibilities including commercial law, consumer law, banking and finance law, and insolvency.

Professor Michelle Louw (writing as Kelly-Louw) is a professor of law and the Head of the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Currently holds a B2 rating (that is, a researcher who enjoy considerable international recognition by her peers for the high quality and impact of their recent research outputs) from the South African National Research Foundation. She holds a doctoral degree in international banking law. She has published widely in the fields of insolvency law, banking law and consumer credit law and her research has been cited with approval by the South African courts, including the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal, and a Namibian High court on several occasions. She has received five research awards, including the South African Department of Science and Technology’s award for Distinguished Young Woman Scientist (Academic Excellence in Social Sciences) (2010). Throughout her career she has been extensively involved in the drafting of South African legislation. She was a drafter of the Land and Agricultural Development Bank Act 15 of 2002. She was a member of the Business South Africa’s Task Group on Insolvency Law who investigated the proposed Unified Insolvency and Business Recovery Bill of 2003. She drafted the consequential amendments contained in the National Credit Act 34 of 2005, provided expert advice to the drafting team and also assisted with the drafting of the 2006 regulations to this Act. During 2005 she was one of the initial drafters that worked on proposals for a new South African Deeds Registries Act and Sectional Titles Act. In April 2010 she was appointed by the South African National Treasury and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs as the drafter of the Financial Misconduct Regulations issued in terms of the Municipal Finance Management Act 56 of 2003 and the Disciplinary Regulations for Senior Managers that were issued in terms of the Municipal Systems Act 32 of 2000. She served on the panel of legal experts (legislative drafting) for the South African National Treasury and the legal panel of the South African National Roads Agency Limited Property Portfolio. She was a visiting research fellow at the University of Westminster, London (2010) and a research fellow at the Institute of Advance Legal Studies in London (2016). She is a member of various South African and international law journals. She was appointed by the South African Minister of Science and Technology to serve on the adjudication panel of the South African Women in Science Awards (SAWiSA) from 2019 to 2023.

Marc Lacoursière has been a professor of business law at Université Laval’s Faculty of Law since 2000, and he is a member of the Quebec Bar since 1993. He received his doctorate in banking law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (Toronto) in 2001. In addition to his law degree, he holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration (Université Laval). His projects on banking, consumer protection and e-commerce have been regularly funded by granting agencies (including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, SSHRC). He is the author of Droit de la consommation (2024) and the co-author (with Professor Nicole L’Heureux) of Droit bancaire (2017). He has been a member of the Consumer Protection Advisory Committee of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada since 2018 and of the Advisory Committee of Consumers of Financial Products and Services of the Autorité des marchés financiers since 2023, and he has been a member of the Consumer Protection Advisory Committee of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (2018-2025). Finally, since 2021, he has been the co-chair of Université Laval’s cross-faculty research ethics committee.

Marc Lacoursière est professeur de droit des affaires à la Faculté de droit de l’Université Laval depuis 2000, et membre du Barreau du Québec depuis 1993. Il a obtenu son doctorat en droit bancaire d’Osgoode Hall Law School, Université York (Toronto) en 2001. Outre son baccalauréat en droit, il est titulaire d’un baccalauréat en administration des affaires (Université Laval). Ses projets, portant sur les banques, la protection des consommateurs et le commerce électronique, ont été régulièrement financés par des organismes subventionnaires (dont le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, CRSH). Il est l’auteur de l’ouvrage Droit de la consommation (7^e éd., 2024) et le coauteur (avec la professeure Nicole L’Heureux) de l’ouvrage Droit bancaire (5^e éd., 2017). Il est membre du Comité consultatif des consommateurs de produits et utilisateurs de services financiers de l’Autorité des marchés financiers depuis 2023, et a été membre du Comité consultatif sur la protection des consommateurs de l’Agence de la consommation en matière financière du Canada (2018-2025). Enfin, depuis 2021, il est le coprésident du Comité plurifacultaire d’éthique à la recherche de l’Université Laval.

Professor Byung-Jun Lee obtained his PhD in Germany Tübingen in 1999 and started in 2000 at the Pusan National University as a Professor. Since 2003 he has been working at the Law School of the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in Seoul, South Korea. He was the Director of the Consumer Law Centre of HUFS in 2016 and the Head of the Law Research Institute of HUFS from March 2017 to February 2019. He is the author of many publications on Korean consumer law and the law of e-commerce. He is currently the President of the Korea Consumer Law Society and especially a member of the Korean Commission for the Reform of the Consumer Protection Act for e-commerce, the Act on e-documents and e-commerce and the Act on e-learning. In addition, he works as a mediator for the Korean Institution for Mediation in E-Commerce and the Institution for Online Advertising and for the Autonomous Mediation Committee. He was a member of the Korean Delegation to the UNCITRAL Working Group III (Online Dispute Resolution).

Marco Loos studied Law at the University of Amsterdam. After his studies, he was affiliated as a PhD candidate with the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law at Utrecht University, where he obtained his doctorate in 1998 with the dissertation "The Energy Supply Agreement" (supervisor: prof. mr. E.H. Hondius).

From 1997 to 2001, he was affiliated as a university lecturer and postdoc with the Center for Tort Law at the Catholic University of Brabant (now Tilburg University). From 2002 to 2004, he worked as an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2005, he has been affiliated with this university as a full professor.

Additionally, since 2021 he has been a member (since 2024: chairman) of the Foundation for Secondary Education Amsterdam-South and of the Foundation for Insurance Company Assessment (since 2022; from 2018-2022: board member), substitute judge at the Court of Appeal of 's-Hertogenbosch (since 2015), and member of the Consumer Advisory Council of the Advertising Code Committee Foundation (since 2024). Until the end of 2023, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Dutch Consumer Association, and until the end of 2024, a member of the Committee for Consumer Affairs of the Social and Economic Council.

Loos specializes in European and Dutch contract and consumer law. He regularly publishes on topics in the field of European consumer law, general terms and conditions, (consumer) sales, digital content, travel agreements, and enforcement of consumer law. His publication list is available at https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/o/m.b.m.loos/m.b.m.loos.html.

Marco Loos heeft Rechtsgeleerdheid gestudeerd aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Na zijn studie is hij als aio verbonden geweest aan het Molengraaff Instituut voor Privaatrecht van de Universiteit Utrecht, waar hij in 1998 is gepromoveerd op het proefschrift De energieleveringsovereenkomst (promotor: prof. mr. E.H. Hondius).

Van 1997 tot 2001 is hij als universitair docent en postdoc verbonden geweest aan het Centrum voor Aansprakelijkheidsrecht van de Katholieke Universiteit Brabant (thans Universiteit van Tilburg). Van 2002 tot 2004 werkte hij als universitair hoofddocent aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Sinds 2005 is hij als hoogleraar verbonden aan deze universiteit.

Daarnaast is hij sinds 2021 lid (sinds 2024: voorzitter) van de Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs Amsterdam-Zuid en van de Stichting toetsing verzekeraars (sinds 2022; van 2018-2022: lid van het bestuur), raadsheer-plaatsvervanger bij het Hof ’s-Hertogenbosch (sinds 2015) en lid van de Consumenten Adviesraad van de Stichting Reclamecodecommissie (sinds 2024). Tot eind 2023 was hij lid van de Raad van Toezicht van de Consumentenbond, tot eind 2024 lid van de Commissie voor Consumentenaangelegenheden van de Sociaal-Economische Raad.

Loos specialiseert zich in Europees en Nederlands contracten- en consumentenrecht. Hij publiceert regelmatig over onderwerpen op het terrein van het Europese consumentenrecht, algemene voorwaarden, (consumenten)koop, digitale inhoud, reisovereenkomsten, en handhaving van het consumentenrecht. Zijn publicatielijst is beschikbaar op https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/o/m.b.m.loos/m.b.m.loos.html.

Joasia Luzak is Professor of Private Law and Director of the Center for European Legal Studies at the University of Exeter Law School (UK). She has over 15 years of experience researching European consumer law and its implementation in Poland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Her comparative research frequently integrates insights from consumer behaviour science. She serves as an editor of Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht en handelspraktijken (published by Uitgeverij Parijs) and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Consumer Policy (published by Springer). From 2016 to 2025, she also served as an editor of the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML) (published by Beck).

She has led an international, interdisciplinary research project funded by the Open Research Area (2016-2020), entitled The ABC of Online Disclosure Duties: Towards a More Uniform Assessment of the Transparency of Consumer Information in Europe. This project built on her extensive expertise in assessing the effectiveness of information duties in European consumer law and in formulating recommendations to improve the existing disclosure and transparency framework.

Her academic publications and consultancy work for the European Parliament and the European Commission critically examine the effectiveness of consumer protection measures and frameworks. Her most recent research addresses pressing issues in consumer protection, including the fairness of influencer marketing, the regulation of online service providers and of digital content, and the effectiveness of rules promoting sustainable consumption in light of consumer heterogeneity.

Born in Kyoto in 1952, Tsuneo Matsumoto is a professor of private law at Hitotsubashi University School of Law, Tokyo, Japan. He got his LLB and LLM degrees at Kyoto University, and joined Hitotsubashi in 1991. Since 2009 he serves as Director for JD Program. His major areas of concern are consumer law and policy as well as ICT law and policy. He has been advising various ministries and agencies in Japan on consumer and ICT issues. He is the chair of the Consumer Commission, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, which was established in September 1, 2009, at the occasion of the change of regulatory framework for consumer protection in Japan. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Council of JISC and served as the chair of its Consumer Policy Committee. He also serves as the chair of Japan’s mirror committee on ISO/SR as well as a member of the ISO/COPOLCO Chair’s Advisory Group. Professor Matsumoto is a board member of the International Association for Consumer Law. Since late 90s, he has been deeply involved in legal technical assistance program for transition economy, especially Cambodia and Vietnam, through Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). His English publication includes “Privatization of Consumer Law: Current Developments and Features of Consumer Law in Japan at the Turn of the Century”, 30 Hitotsubashi Journal of Law and Politics 1 (2002) , “Consumer Protection Laws in Asian Countries”, Nobuyuki Sakumoto, Masayuki Kobayashi & Shinya Imaizumi (ed.), LAW DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGES IN ASIA (IDE-JETRO, 2003), “Anglo-American Law Research in the Study of Civil Law in Japan”, Zentaro Kitagawa & Karl Riesenhuber (Eds.), THE IDENTITY OF GERMAN AND JAPANESE CIVIL LAW IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (De Gruyter Recht, Berlin), “Managing Risks Through Soft Law Techniques; Can They Work for Consumers?”, Iain Ramsay, John Salloum, Naomi Horrox & Geoff Mowatt (ed.), RISK AND CHOICE IN CONSUMER SOCIETY (Ant.N.Sakkoulas, Athens) and “Reshaping Consumer Policy”, Highlighting JAPAN through articles, March 2010.

Ted Mermin is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice.

Ted has directed the Center since its founding in 2018. In that time, the Center has conceived and helped organize four annual or biennial conferences, including the Consumer Law Scholars Conference and the Economic Justice Policy Advocates Conference; four regular regional and statewide convenings of experts from government, legal services, nonprofits, and academia; and symposia on the application of consumer protection law to private companies providing prison services and coerced debt arising from domestic violence and elder financial abuse. The Center also co-founded the ever-growing Consumer Law Advocates, Students and Scholars (CLASS) Network, which comprises (and seeds) student economic justice organizations in law schools around the nation.

Ted has also guided the Center’s litigation work, filing amicus briefs in salient consumer protection and economic justice cases around the nation as well as overseeing the unique Published Justice project, which has led to the publication of numerous California court of appeal decisions that would not otherwise have seen the light of day.

At Berkeley Law, Ted teaches Consumer Protection Law and Comparative Consumer Protection Law. He coordinates the Consumer Law Program, serves as pro bono counsel to the Consumer Justice Clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center, and advises the student Consumer Advocacy and Protection Society (CAPS) and Consumer Protection Public Policy Order (C3PO).

Outside the law school, Ted serves as director of the California Low-Income Consumer Coalition (CLICC), a partnership of legal service providers dedicated to furthering the rights of vulnerable consumers through state and local policy advocacy. CLICC’s efforts have included laws to reform debt collection practices in the state, to preserve assets in the face of bank levies and wage garnishments, and to establish the revamped Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.

Ted also serves as executive director of the Public Good Law Center, in which guise he has, for the past decade, assisted local, state, and federal agencies in the development and defense of innovative policies in public health and consumer law; helped litigate consumer rights and public health cases in appellate and trial courts around the nation, including in the United States Supreme Court; and written and spoken extensively on issues of free speech, preemption, tobacco control, marketing to children, deceptive advertising, and unfair competition.

Before founding Public Good, Ted served for eight years as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice, litigated in private practice, and served as a law clerk for the Hon. Louis H. Pollak. He holds degrees from UC Berkeley (J.D.) and Yale (B.A.).

Prof.(Dr.) Ashok R. Patil, B.Sc(Criminology& Forensic Science), LLM (First Rank), Ph.D.(Consumer Law)

Email: vcashokpatil@nuslr.ac.in

He is a Vice Chancellor of National University of Study and Research in Law Ranchi, Jharkhand since June 2023 on deputation from NLSIU, Bangalore.  He was practiced before Trial Court and High Court of Karnataka for two years before joining for teaching. He has 27 years teaching experience. He Joined National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore in August 2008 as a Chair Professor of Chair on Consumer Law & Practice of which was established by Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Government of India. He has been teaching ADR for UG and PG students. He has undergone Mediation training from IIAM, Kochi and become accredited mediator and empaneled by National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (NCDRC) New Delhi. He launched state of Art ‘Online Consumer Mediation Centre’ at NLSIU in 2016 under Ministry of Consumer Affairs, GoI and it was recognized by Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India New Delhi. He was actively involved in drafting of Consumer Protection Act, 2019, Rules and Regulations specially on Mediation.

Published more than 8 articles in International Journal; more than 42 articles in National Journal; Published more than six books. Visited more than 15 countries & presented research papers. Presented more than 30 papers at the international and 58 at National level Conference Seminars. Organized more than 76 training programs/workshops for Non-Governmental Organization, consumer forum presidents, members, Government & Private Lawyers, consumer club teachers and others. He has given many programs in TV and Radio. He is a Chief-Editor of ‘International Journal on Consumer Law & Practice’ (SCOPUS and UGC CARE). He had NCC "C" Certificate and NSS Certificate.

He has got many Awards and Fellowships i.e. Received Asian Law Institute’s Fellowship in 2010 (ASLI) and visited National University of Singapore for research in Consumer Protection Issues; Received the prestigious National Award “Legal Education Innovation Award-2013” awarded by Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) and Menon Institute for Legal Advocacy and Training (MILAT) (Prof. Madhava Menon); As a Faculty Coordinator to Legal Service Clinic received ‘International Mac Jannet Award’ in 2014 at Cape Town, South Africa; University Grants Commission’s FIP Fellowship; Received Endeavour Leadership Programme (ELP) Fellowship from University of Western Australia (UWA) Law School, Australia, 2019.

Successfully completed project on “Effective Implementation of Online Consumer Dispute Resolution through Mediation” sponsored by Ministry of Law & Justice, Government of India, New Delhi 2018-19;  Submitted of views on Designing the Future of Dispute Resolution: The ODR Policy Plan for India, to OSD, NITI AAYOG, Government of India; Launched ‘Conflict Management Through Mediation’ from 2023 under National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL/Swayam); Successfully completed 40 Hours Mediation Training program with International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ICADR) New Delhi;

He was a Member of Inter-Governmental Group of Experts, Working group on modalities of UNCTAD voluntary peer review exercises on Consumer Protection and Electronic Commerce, 2021; Life–time Member, International Academy of Financial Consumers (IAFICO), Seoul.

Professor of University of São Paulo Law School. Master, Doctor and Post-Doctor from the Faculty of Law at USP. Attorney for the State of São Paulo, heading the Legal Advisory of the Sports Secretariat. Former Executive Director of the PROCON Foundation in São Paulo and Commissioner or the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), Former Legal Consultant to the Ministry of Justice and Advisor to the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court. Former member of the Advisory Council of the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) and of the Basic Sanitation Guidance Council of the Public Services Regulatory Agency of the State of São Paulo (Arsesp). He was President of the Institute of Consumer Policy and Law (Brasilcon) and was part of the Committee of Jurists appointed by the Federal Senate to update the Brazilian Consumer Protection Code. Author of several books and articles especially on consumer law, competition law, personal data protection, e-commerce law, procedural law and commercial law.

Elise Poillot is full professor of civil law at the University of Luxembourg. She started her academic career at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France), where she was the vice-director of the Institut de Droit Comparé Édouard Lambert. Given her strong interest in European and comparative law, she joined the University of Luxembourg as a full professor in civil law, where she also serves as Study Programme Director of the Master in European Business Law.

She has built a career around various facets of legal studies. While many lawyers provided a foundation for theoretical explorations, her professional involvement in academic contexts at an international and European level has taught her to put law in perspective with the social, cultural, linguistic, technological and economic environment.

In 2014, she opened a Consumer Law Clinic where she implemented interdisciplinarity in both teaching and research. She also serves as a member of the Administrative Board of the European Network for Clinical Legal Education (ENCLE), contributing to the development and dissemination of clinical legal education standards across Europe. In the ever-evolving landscape of consumer education within the realm of law, she is proud to be recognized as one of the pioneers in this field. Her scholarly work has been widely acknowledged: she is recognized as a leading scholar in national, European, and comparative consumer law, having authored book chapters and leading articles, especially in the field of consumer education.

She has also been entrusted with several high-level academic responsibilities at the European level. She was appointed by the Italian Ministry of Higher Education as a member of the national committee responsible for the academic qualification of candidates applying for professorships in law. She further served as an evaluator of teaching and research programmes in the French-speaking part of Belgium.

Her commitment to the academic community also extends to doctoral research: she has supervised several PhD theses in consumer law, many of which were published and significantly contributed to the doctrinal development of the field.

Peter Rott is a professor of civil law, commercial law, and information law at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Prior to this, he held positions as lecturer at the University of Sheffield, junior professor at the University of Bremen, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and professor at the University of Kassel. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Ghent and the University of Brescia. Peter specialises in European private law and in German and European consumer law and is co-editor of the German consumer law journal Verbraucher und Recht (VuR). Currently, his focus is on the effects of digitalisation on private law, on sustainable consumer law, and on the enforcement of consumer law.

Karin Sein is a Professor of Civil Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Tartu, Estonia. She completed her LL.M. degree in 1999 at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and her dr iuris degree in 2007 at the University of Tartu. She has published extensively in the areas of domestic and European contract law, consumer law, data protection and digital law, her latest book being “Data Protection, Privacy and New Technologies” (Routledge 2024). She is member of the editorial boards of legal journals Juridica International, JIPITEC and European Review of Contract Law.

In 2017, during the Estonian EU Presidency, she was chairing the contract law working group of the Council, working on the Digital Content and Sale of Goods Directives. In 2018-2021, she led a scientific project funded by the Estonian Research Council concentrating on consumer contract law in the Digital Single Market. Together with dr. M. Ristikivi, she has published a book (in Estonian) on restoring the rule of law in Estonia after regaining independence in 1991. In addition to the academic publications, she has provided expertise for the Estonian Supreme Court and advised the Estonian Ministry of Justice on implementing European consumer protection directives into Estonian law. She is currently the PI of a 4-year project funded by the Estonian Research Council on consumer credit law in the Nordic-Baltic area.