Regulating Unfair Banking Practices in Europe The Case of Personal Suretyships

Private persons often stand surety for a business debt incurred by family members, friends, or employers. These suretyships are commonly banking guarantees contracted by means of standard terms. Sometimes the guarantor signs the contract while he/she is n

Stephen Weatherill is the Jacques Delors Professor of European Community Law at the University of Oxford. He is also the Associate Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of European and Comparative Law. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Law and Integration in the European Union (1995, OUP), and Weatherill and Beaumont's EU Law (3rd edition 1999, Penguin), and is the editor of The Harmonisation of European Contract Law: Implications for European Private Laws, Business and Legal Practice (co-edited with S. Vogenauer, 2006, Hart).

Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi is a Senior Researcher at the Law Faculty and a Senior Lecturer at the Hanse Law School, University of Bremen. She specializes in comparative law, European private law, constitutional and private law, contract and liability law.

1. Regulating Unfair Suretyships in Europe: Methodology of a Comparative Study, A. Colombi Ciacchi and S. Weatherill
2. Suretyships and Consumer Protection in the European Union through the Lense of Law and Economics, K. Heine and R. Janal
3. Remarks from a Comparative and EU Perspective, A. Colombi Ciacchi and S. Weatherill
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