Private Law Theory

Many Latin American jurisdictions have developed during the last years the notion of collective non-pecuniary damages, especially though not exclusively in the context of consumer law. This has created the need to incorporate the aforementioned category of damages in procedures of collective redress, as has recently occurred in Chilean law. The phenomenon poses new challenges not only to the procedures of collective redress, but also to the traditional conceptions of non-pecuniary damages in civil law systems … (more)

First posted 2020-08-14 05:01:21