Change in legislation in consumer society

Occupation: Associate Professor of the Department of private and public law of the Penza state University
Affiliation: Penza state University
Address: Russian Federation, Penza

Journal name

Gosudarstvo i pravo

Edition

Issue 7

Pages

125-134

Abstract

The article is devoted to the transformation of law-making and law-enforcement practice in the conditions of consumer society. The perception of a thing as an indicator of status, unjustified overestimation of the value of intellectual rights, property stratification, changes in the trade and financial spheres pose a threat to social, consumer and environmental security. The purpose of the article is to study the actual problems of legal regulation of such new manifestations of the era of consumerism as affluence, astroturfing, planned obsolescence, brand cult, etc. The analysis of the current situation makes it possible to state the need for wider application of public law methods of human rights protection. The author offers a study of the holistic concept of legal regulation in order to achieve an balance of private, public and public interests.

Keywords

consumer society, transformation of legislation, astroturfing, affluence, planned obsolescence, holistic concept of legal understanding

Received

25.09.2020

Publication date

12.08.2021

Number of characters

39299

Cite

GOST	Likhter P. Change in legislation in consumer society // Gosudarstvo i pravo – 2021. – Issue 7 C. 125-134 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://gospravo-journal.ru/S102694520006885-4-1 (circulation date: 25.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S102694520006885-4
MLA	Likhter, Pavel L "Change in legislation in consumer society." Gosudarstvo i pravo 7 (2021):125-134. DOI: 10.31857/S102694520006885-4
APA	Likhter P. (2021). Change in legislation in consumer society. Gosudarstvo i pravo (7), pp.125-134 DOI: 10.31857/S102694520006885-4

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