4 july 2016

Professor Dr Guillermo Palao Moreno, full-university professor in Private International Law of the Universitat de València and professor in the Master’s Degree in Law, Business and Justice, has directed the collective work The new European tools in terms of conciliation, mediation and cosumer arbitration. Their incidence in Spain, Ireland and United Kingdom (Los nuevos instrumentos europeos en materia de conciliación, mediación y arbitraje de consumo. Su incidencia en España, Irlanda y el Reino Unido), published by Tirant Lo Blanch and whose synopsis is as follows:

2016 is called to have a significant importance for the Community internal market and, therefore, for the consumers that participate in it. At the beginning of this year the new system planned by the EU legislator should become fully operational for the alternative resolution of consumption, which focus on two tools designed to be able to perform together: The Regulation (EU) no. 524/2013, on online dispute resolution in terms of consumption, and the Directive 2013/11/UE, regarding the dispute alternative resolution in terms of consumption. This work sets out an analysis of this regulation, carried out by members of the academy and the Spanish administration, as well as by scholars coming from British and Irish universities. They make an interesting comparative analysis that was preceded by an enriching and intense seminar that took place at the Faculty of Law of the Universitat de València and that culminates now in this collective book.

Index of the book

• Electronic means in out-of-court schemes of conflict resolution. Legislative developments launched from Europe;
• The principles of transparency, efficiency, equity, freedom and legality in the Directive 2013/11/UE of the European Parliament and the Council of 21 May 2013, concerning the alternative resolution of disputes in terms of consumption and its impact in the Spanish consumption arbitration system;
• The impact on the United Kingdom of the Directive on the Dispute Alternative Resolution and Online Disputes Resolution Regulation;
• Keys for incorporating the Spanish Law in the new European Law for the consumption dispute alternative resolution;
• The implementation of the consumer ADR Directive and the ODR Regulation in Ireland;
• The Recommendation of the European Commission on the applicable principles of collective redress (2013/396/UE) Is it possible the collective arbitration?;
• The needed coordination in the field of consumption disputes alternative resolution in Europe: the Spanish case;
• The international consumption arbitration in Spain after the last European advances in the matter;
• The TRLGDCU reform in terms of arbitration;
• The European framework on consumption online dispute resolution: Technologies at the services of disputes resolution?

In the book, apart from Guillermo Palao Moreno (director), have also participated Carmen Azcárraga Monzonís (editorial secretary=, Ana Montesinos García, Ángeles Cuenca García, Pablo Pajín Echevarría, Pablo Cortés, Fernando Esteban de la Rosa, José Ignacio Paredes Pérez, Brian Hutchinson, María José Reyes López, Alicia Menéndez González and Josep Suquet.

Professor Dr Guillermo Palao Moreno is Vice-Principal for Internationalisation and Cooperation of the Universitat de València and teaches the subject International Contracting and Legal Regime of E-Commerce (3 ECTS credits) of the Master’s Degree in Law, Business and Justice.