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Author Archives: Jeff Sovern
Looks like an exciting program, with leading consumer law scholars both in and outside the US! From the announcement: Almost 65 years after the introduction of the Consumer Bill of Rights, new technologies and business practices are raising questions about how consumer protections should evolve. This November, the Tulane Law Review, alongside Professor Mateusz Grochowski […]
Go here, courtesy of the Center for Responsible Lending.
The announcement is here. Here’s the first paragraph of the announcement: The Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Project provides law students with the extraordinary opportunity to work in the consumer protection departments of state and territorial Offices of Attorneys General and other consumer protection agencies, as well as the National Association of Attorneys General and the […]
Richard Frankel of Drexel has written Do Arbitration Providers Have Incentives to Favor Businesses over Individuals? Mass Arbitration as a Case Study, Journal of International Dispute Settlement (forthcoming 2027). Here’s the abstract: When it comes to selecting arbitrators to resolve a dispute, the arbitration system goes to great lengths to avoid arbitrator bias. Both parties […]
We received the following announcement: The Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL) invites second year law students to submit abstracts for consideration in an upcoming issue of the Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report (CFLQR). This initiative is designed to foster emerging scholarship in consumer finance law by pairing selected students with experienced practitioners and scholars […]
At Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor podcast. Bartholomew discussed the article he co-authored with Samuel Becher, The End of Shopping, forthcoming in the William & Mary Law Review.
So Politico reports here. Not surprisingly, it was a party line vote, 13-11.
And plenty of others! Online and in person on September 25. More information here.
At Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor podcast. The former officials are Jason Brown, former CFPB Assistant Director for Research and now a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, and David Silberman, former Acting Deputy Director and longtime Associate Director for Research, Markets and Regulation.