Christopher R. Drahozal of Kansas has written Confidentiality in Consumer and Employment Arbitration, 7 Yearbook on Arbitration & Mediation ___ (forthcoming 2015). Here is the abstract: This article examines an apparent misperception among some commentators about the confidentiality of consumer and employment arbitration in the U.S. Arbitration is a private process—i.e., the public cannot attend […]
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The late Jean Braucher of Arizona and Angela K. Littwin of Texas have written Examination as a Method of Consumer Protection, 87 Temple Law Review, 807 (2015). Here is the abstract: Lack of compliance with consumer protection law has been a crucial problem in the field for as long as such law has existed. The Consumer […]
Here. An excerpt: [The Chamber] slammed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for sometimes pursuing violators of securities law in the comfort of its in-house courts rather than try the cases in the public courts. There are "substantial differences" in the processes used in the two forums, the Chamber's Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness wrote […]
Quoting from the announcement: The Department of Mercantile Law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa will host an international consumer law conference that will focus on relevant developments internationally and nationally in the field of consumer law. The conference theme is "Towards Aligning Consumer Protection in a Global Consumer Market". The following aspects of […]
Ibrahim Altaweel of Good Research, Nathan Good, also of Good Research, and Chris Jay Hoofnagle of Berkeley have posted their updated Web Privacy Census, Technology Science 2015121502, Online. Here is the abstract: Most people may believe that online activities are tracked more pervasively now than they were in the past. In 2011, we started surveying […]
Jeffrey Davis of Florida has written Regulating for the First Time the Decision to Grant Consumer Credit: A Look at the First Steps Taken by the United States and Australia. Here is the abstract: In this Article, I discuss the changes in three consumer-credit realms. First, I compare the Australian regime applicable to all forms […]
From Pearls Before Swine. (HT: ContractsProf Blog)
by Jeff Sovern Richard posted a link last week to the Times article about how debt collectors first sue in court and then when consumers sue them, use arbitration clauses to block the consumer law suit. Today the Times published four letters responding to the article, including mine. I want to comment on two of […]
Mark Elliott Budnitz of Georgia State has written The National Consumer Law Center From Its Birth to 2013. Here is the abstract: The article describes, analyzes and evaluates the role played by the National Consumer Law Center, a public interest law firm dedicated to promoting the legal rights of low income consumers, in the development […]
Here. Definitely worth watching. (HT: ContractsProf Blog)