Claudia Lima Marques

Consumer Protection in Brazil: The 2016 Report for the International Academy of Consumer Law

Until 1960, the Brazilian legislation opts for a restricted and strictly criminal approach when addressing issues related to the right to consumer protection. In 1971, the National Chamber of Deputies receives a bill that aimed to create a Council for Consumer Protection. The Commission of Justice on procedural grounds rejected the project. However, from that time on, the issue of consumer protection attracted the attention of the media and various social players, especially in regards to the problem of misleading advertising.

25 Years to Celebrate: Horizons Reached by the 1990 Brazilian Consumer Protection Code and Horizons to Come, Especially on the International Protection of Consumers

The horizon is where the sky meets the earth, when they form a single line of blue and green, as if it were possible to achieve the impossible, to have the best of Earth and Heaven in only one destiny. Horizon is where we want to reach; it is the dream, very remote, but it is also the desirable, the success, and the way to the future. In this article, we will use the figure of speech “horizons reached” (Part I) and “horizon to come” (Part II) to tell the beautiful story of consumer law’s 25 years of prosperity and victory since the enactment of the Brazilian Consumer Protection Code in 1990 due to the inspiration arising from the Review of the UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection in 2015, and the Brazilian Consumer Protection Code revision, in order to ponder how the future of consumer law could be in Brazil.

Relations Between International Law and Consumer Law in the Globalized World: Challenges and Prospects

The first Report of the ILA’s Committee on International Protection of Consumers has stated: “Issues of consumer law are no longer national. Market globalization has changed not only the way we produce, but also the way we consume. The new ‘global citizen’ is also a ‘global consumer’, a circumstance that adds new complexities to the area of international consumer protection.”