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Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in the declining welfare state

Ramsay, Iain (1999) Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in the declining welfare state. In: Wilhelmsson, T. and Hurri, S., eds. From Dissonance to Sense: Welfare State Expectations, Privatisation and Private Law. Ashgate, Dartmouth. ISBN 1-84014-431-9. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:1633)

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Abstract

The text focuses on the role of private law in late modernity. It analyzes the pressures for changes in this area of law due to the present processes of privatization and marketization. The perspective is welfarist: in what ways and to what extent can the welfare-state expectations of the citizens be defended through private law mechanisms when state-offered security is diminishing? Which alternatives are availible when developing private law? The questions are discussed against the background of theories concerning important features of modern society, like consumerism, risk, information, globalization, and fragmentation. Several fields of private law are analyzed, such as private law theory, tort and liability law, contract law and credit law as well as access to justice issues. The approach is comparative and includes analysis of both common law and continental law.

Item Type: Book section
Subjects: K Law
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School
Depositing User: A. Davies
Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2007 19:06 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:40 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/1633 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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