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Author Archives: Jeff Sovern
Bruce Wardhaugh of the School of Law–Queen's University Belfast haas written Unveiling Fairness for the Consumer: The Law, Economics and Justice of Expanded Arbitration, forthcoming in the Loyola Consumer Law Review. Here is the abstract: In recent years, the US Supreme Court has rather controversially extended the ambit of the Federal Arbitration Act to extend […]
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Peter A. Holland of Maryland has written Junk Justice: A Statistical Analysis of 4,400 Lawsuits Filed by Debt Buyers, 26 Loyola Consumer Law Reporter 179 (2014). Here's the abstract: Debt buyers have flooded courts nationwide with collection lawsuits against consumers. This article reports the findings from the broadest in-depth study of debt buyer litigation outcomes […]
by Jeff Sovern In a column last week, The Wild West of Privacy, Times columnist Joe Nocera called for, among other things, regulating data brokers. In response, I wrote a letter to the Times, which they ran here. Here's what I said: Joe Nocera argues that data brokers should be obliged to tell consumers what […]
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Dennis D. Hirsch of Capital has written In Search of the Holy Grail: Achieving Global Privacy Rules Through Sector-Based Codes of Conduct, 74 Ohio St. L.J. (2013). Here is the abstract: The movement of personal data across national borders is fundamental to the Internet economy. Yet the laws that govern such data flows remain national […]
Adam J. Levitin of Georgetown and Janneke Ratcliffe the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Community Capital have written Rethinking Duties to Serve in Housing Finance, in Homeownership Built to Last: Lessons from the Housing Crisis on Sustaining Homeownership for Low-Income and Minority Families (Brookings 2014). Here is the abstract: In this […]
Susanna Montezemolo of the Center for Responsible Lending haas written Car-Title Lending. Here is the abstract: Provides an overview of car-title lending and its impact on U.S. households. Car-title lending — making expensive loans secured by the title of a vehicle a borrower owns outright — has become a multi-billion dollar industry in the U.S. […]