Vertical versus Horizontal Comparison in Contemporary Approaching of Consumer Law

The following article attempts to dismantle the assumptions that the vertical comparative methods, especially those using a bottom-up approach, from national to international level, are surrounded by intricacies related to the internalization of international norms, in the context in which the contemporary administrative and legislative measures tend to be divided into two categories: (a) those related to the State's economic intervention (public policy of direction) and (b) those pertaining to the protective and anticipatory legal intervention (public policy of protection). The fundamental issue that needs to be addressed is whether it is possible to refine the concept of longitudinal comparative approach, correlated to the intrinsic elements of traverse comparative approaches of contemporary Consumer Law.