Study On The Legal Protection Of The Consumer's Right To Know

The consumer's right to know is an important right , which has direct influence on the consuming behaviors whether conform to the true wishes of subject of the right. In modern mass consumption society which has an information explosion, the legal protection of consumer's right to know is related to everyone's vital interest and inevitable as the premise on promotion of reasonable consumptions. This article utilizes the realistic analytic method, comparative method, value judgment method, induction method etc. to analyze and discourse on the theory and the present legal protection situation of the consumer's right to know from different sides. The author suggests some improvements in the system and hopes it will have certain references in the future.This article could be divided into three major parts:The first part is the general theory of consumer's right to know. The author begins with the analysis of the birth background of the right, provides historical arguments to prove the existence of consumer's right to know is reasonable; Afterwards, the author elaborates the definition and the characteristic of consumer's right to know and show the special attribute of the right; Through comparison with other consumer's rights, the author makes a conclusion that the consumer's right to know occupies a fundamental and relative independent position in the system of consumer's rights.The second part is analysis on existing legal protection system of consumer's right to know. The author inspects the overseas legislations and indicates their merits worthy of emulating. At the same time, the author analyzes the main content and chief defects of present protection law for the consumer's right to know in our country, to lay the groundwork for finding a way to amend the law.The third part is study on the possible measures to improve legal protection system of consumer's right to know in our country. From the angle of realization of the legal right, the author analyzes the multiple social relations in the practice of consumer's right to know, points out hindrances to right's realization, then tables practical proposals to the improvement of the legal protection system and tries to provide the safeguard for transformation from the written right to live right.