Part I International Protection of Consumers: trends and challenges: Dan Wei, Consumer Protection in the Global Context: the Present Status and Some New Trends -- Ana Candida Muniz and Hector Santana, The UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection: review and next -- Gail Pearson, The UNGCP Guidelines - Some Comments -- Fabiana D´Andrea Ramos and Vitor Hugo do Amaral Ferreira, Common Law and International Consumer Protection in the Global Orbit of Consumption -- Louise Teitz and David Stewart, International Consumer Protection and Private International Law -- Maria Goretti Sanches Lima, The Supranational Organizations' initiatives aimed at protection of tourists. Why international conventions are needed? -- Yu Ying, Chinese Approaches to Reform Consumer Protection law: Substantive Law and Conflict Law -- Alberto do Amaral Junior and Luciane Klein Vieira, International Consumer Protection in Mercosur -- Claudia Lima Marques, 25 Years to Celebrate: Horizons reached by the 1990 Brazilian Consumer Protection Code and horizons to come, especially on the international protection of consumers -- Thierry Bourgoignie, Regional Integration and Consumer Safety: An Emerging Concern in the Gulf Region -- Part II Financial crisis and consumer protection: James Nefh, Consumer Credit Regulation and International Financial Markets: Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown -- Hector Santana, The International Financial Crisis and the Protection of the Brazilian Consumer -- Luke Nottage, Free Trade Agreement and Investment Treaty Innovations to Promote More Sustainable Financial Markets for Consumers -- Dan Wei, Financial Consumer Protection in China: country report -- Gail Pearson, Current Issues for Consumer Protection Law in Australia -- Part III National and regional consumer law issues: helping the economic development: Claudia Lima Marques, Relations Between International Law and Consumer Law in The Globalized World: Challenges and Prospects -- Amanda Flávio de Oliveira, Economic development, capitalism and Consumer Law in Brazil: rejecting the argument for "legal paternalism" -- Bruno Miragem, The Illegal and Abusive: Proposals for a Systematic Interpretation of Abusive Practices in the 25 Years of the Consumer Defense Code -- Adalberto Pasqualotto, Children, Consumption and Advertising: Brazil's Point of View -- Gail Pearson, Further Challenges for Australian Consumer Law -- He Shan, The Emergence and Development of Chinese 3.15 Anti-Counterfeiting -- Roberto Augusto Castellanos Pfeiffer, Real Estate Under Construction, Consumer Law and Development -- Walter José Faiad de Moura and Leonardo Roscoe Bessa, Real Estate Consumer Credit: a New Side to Vulnerability -- Antonia Espíndola Longoni Klee, Consumer Protection in E-Commerce in Brazil: The Updating of the Consumer's Protection Code -- André de Carvalho Ramos, The right to be forgotten and the indirect control of consumer databases -- Yixian Zhao, Regulation and Supervision of Internet Finance and Consumer Protection in China -- Káren Rick Danilevicz Bertoncello and Clarissa Costa de Lima, Overindebtedness in Mercosul Countries: An Overview -- Johannes Doll and Rosangela Cavallazzi, 'Withholding Credit' and Elderly Overindebtedness -- Diogenes Faria de Carvalho, Consuming, Consumption and Over-Indebtedness in (Hyper) Contemporaneity.