Abstract
Abstract In 2018/2019, EU private law experienced one of the most vigorous and meaningful changes in its evolution so far. The prominence of this alteration does not rest solely on the number of new rules, but—more importantly—on the substantially new perspective on economic and social tasks of European private law. The reform encompassed three core areas: consumer protection, sustainability and digital commerce. The paper seeks to better understand the transformative task of private law in the social and economic realm. The protection of the environment, on the one hand, and the informational autonomy and privacy, on the other, provide a new type of challenge for the existing agenda of private law, reaching beyond economic efficiency as its ultimate goal. Finally, the emergence of digitalization and sustainability as the new domains of private law reinvigorates the question of to what extent the European private law should directly engage itself in pursuing the social and economic agenda. The 2018/2019 legislation opened a new chapter in this discussion, facing private law with a new genre of tasks, which traditionally belonged to the domain of public ordering. The paper seeks to unpack the essence of this change by focusing on three intertwined issues: vulnerability, autonomy, and regulation. Mingled together they seem to form the backbone of the reform, which seems to provide an in-depth subversion of the existing conceptual structures of EU consumer law.
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