The 15th (bi-annual) conference of the International Association of Consumer Law (IACL), devoted to "Virtues and Consumer Law", was hosted by the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law at the University of Amsterdam (convenors: Professor Marco Loos, Dr Joanna Luzak and Dr Sacha Tamboer). The host institution – the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) – is a research and legal education institute based at the University of Amsterdam, headed by a leading expert on European private law, Professor Martijn W. Hesselink. The CSECL focuses both on research and on legal education in the field of the interplay between EU, domestic and international contract law, understood as the law governing economic transactions in Europe. CSECL members collaborate within various networks and on international research projects, including the Trento Common Core Project, the Private Law Theory network and the Ius Commune Research School.