The Research Group on Credit, Debt and Consumer Protection at Leicester promotes a research agenda on issues in European Consumer Protection and, in particular, on protecting the vulnerable in financial transactions. The group also aims to develop work on the increasing influence of EU law on national private law regimes, a phenomenon which has been described as the ‘Europeanisation’ of private law. The group seeks to establish a focal point for legal discourse in these fields and as a platform for cross-border research and training.

The work of the group has involved significant and ongoing cooperation with European and domestic partners, in particular with the Institute of Corporate and Commercial law at Durham University http://www.dur.ac.uk/iccl/ and the Centre for European Law and Legal Studies at Leeds University http://www.law.leeds.ac.uk/research/european-law-legal-studies/. Within this framework 3 conferences have been organised:

Conceptualising Unconscionability, September 2008
http://www.dur.ac.uk/iccl/events/eventlist/?eventno=3914

Consumer Protection in Europe: theory and practice, December 2009
http://www.law.leeds.ac.uk/research/events/consumer-protection-europe.php /

Europeanisation of Private law: Theory and Practice, Leicester on December 2010
Europeanisation of Private law: Theory and Practice