Given the unprecedented recent turmoil on financial markets we now face radically challenged, 'post-Lehmann' assumptions on protecting the vulnerable in financial transactions. This collection of essays explores conceptions of, and responses to, unconscionability and similar notions across Europe with specific reference to financial transactions. It presents a detailed analysis of concepts of unconscionability in Europe against a backdrop of Commission initiatives aimed, variously, at securing a single market in financial services, producing greater coherence in EC consumer protection law and consolidating European private law. This analysis illustrates, for example, that concepts of unconscionability depend on context and can be shaped by a variety of factors. It also illustrates that jurisdictions may choose to respond to questions of unconscionability through a variety of legal instruments located in different branches of the law rather than through a single doctrine. Thus this collection illuminates many of the obstacles facing harmonisation in this area.

Feature-length animated adventure set in a Lego version of the DC universe. When Superman (voice of Nolan North) decides he can no longer contain his evil mirror image Bizarro (also North) in Metropolis he decides to send him back to his home planet. Once there the destructive clone forms his own rival group of superheroes to fight back. But when Darkseid (Tony Todd) threatens Bizarro's planet and the entire galaxy Superman and the rest of the Justice League, including Batman (Troy Baker), Green Lantern (Diedrich Bader) and Wonder Woman (Kari Wahlgren), are forced to join forces with their polar opposites in the newly formed Bizarro League to defeat Darkseid and restore order to their universe.

Exploring the relationship between environmental sustainability and planning, this textbook explores the different implications of sustainability for public planning in the industrialized world. Environmental sustainability has become one of the most salient issues on the policy agenda of nation-states in the late 20th century. However, this book argues that planning is often, wrongly, ignored by advocates of environmental politics. Several major questions are addressed in this volume: what are the consequences of environmental sustainability for current patterns of social steering by the state and socio-economic planning?; what lessons do earlier experiences of social and economic planning in Western democracies have for future sustainability planners?; and what challenges are generated for conventional socio-economic management by specifically environmental planners? These issues are explored by contributors from different intellectual traditions.

Environmental sustainability has become one of the most salient issues on the policy agenda of nation-states. This book argues that planning is seldom credited by advocates of environmental politics. The authors, leading scholars in the field, explore the relationship between environmental sustainability - one of the most important innovations in recent political discourse and planning, an idea which has slipped from public attention recently.