We have been asked to announce this to students: The Consumer Protection and Legislation Committees of the Section of Antitrust Law are looking for volunteers to monitor state antitrust and consumer protection legislative developments and when appropriate, draft short legislative updates to post on Connect. The volunteer involvement will consist of monitoring antitrust and consumer […]
Author Archives: Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern Jean Sternlight of UNLV is circulating an impressive and well-argued letter for law professors to sign supporting the CFPB's proposed arbitration regulation. According to my count, 139 have already signed it. If you would like to add your name to the list, please email Jean at jean.sternlight@unlv.edu no later than May 20.
The vote was supposedly to take place on May 4–two days ago–but I can't find a record of it on the FCC web site. (HT: Norm Silber).
Chris Jay Hoofnagle, FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION: PRIVACY LAW AND POLICY (2016) Reviewed by Dee Pridgen Chris Hoofnagle has put together an impressive, authoritative and useful treatise on the law of consumer privacy in the U.S. and the role of the Federal Trade Commission. This book is an excellent read for all those interested in consumer […]
Last week I posted something about the latest attack on the CFPB's constitutionality because of its single-director structure and sought comment. Americans for Financial Reform Policy Counsel Brian Simmonds Marshall addressed the issue on the ACS Blog in an informative post titled An Easy Case: Why a Federal Appeals Court Should Reject a Constitutional Challenge to […]
by Jeff Sovern Earlier today, the US Chamber of Commerce released a letter to CFPB Director Richard Cordray from David Hirschmann, President and CEO, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, urging the Director to address certain issues at Thursday's CFPB arbitration field hearing. Here's one of those issues, as stated in the letter: [T]he public would benefit […]
Brian D. Galle of Georgetown has written The Problem of Intra-Personal Cost. Here is the abstract: “Externalities”, or harms to others, provide a standard justification for government intervention in the private market. There is less agreement over whether government is justified in correcting “internalities,” or harms to self the self is largely powerless to avoid. […]
Christopher P. Guzelian of Thomas Jefferson, Michael Ashley Stein of Harvard Law School and the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law, and H. S. Akiskal of UC San Diego Department of Psychology have written Credit Scores, Lending, and Psychosocial Disability, 95 Boston University Law Review 1807 (2015). Here is the abstract: Credit scores have become a […]
Bankrate has the story here. Excerpt: It's one thing to see banks marketing financial products they sell, like credit cards. It's another thing altogether to see them trying to sell cars, says Elisabeth Honka, assistant professor of marketing at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. "This is the first time I'm seeing it," Honka says. […]