by Jeff Sovern Here. The symposium, on Ben-Shahar's and Schneider's More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure, has been running since last week and features contributions by names that will be familiar to regular readers of consumer law literature, including Lauren Willis of Loyola-LA, David Vladeck of Georgetown, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler of NYU, Nancy Kim of Cal Western, […]
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Lauren E. Willis of Loyola Los Angeles has written Performance-Based Consumer Law. Here is the abstract: When firm and consumer interests are not well-aligned, the resulting transactions are often lousy, whether one uses consumer autonomy or consumer welfare as the metric. With modern experimental and data analysis techniques, firms can run circles around the law’s […]
by Jeff Sovern I am partial to Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels. I buy the audio books and listen to them while driving, doing mindless chores, etc. In the latest, Personal, Reacher and a companion are discussing the activities of a British gang of criminals, and the sentence quoted above appears. Interesting to see that the […]
Rhonda Wasserman of Pittsburgh has written Future Claimants and the Quest for Global Peace, Forthcoming in 64 Emory Law Journal (2014), Here's the abstract: In the mass tort context, the defendant typically seeks to resolve all of the claims against it in one fell swoop. But the defendant’s interest in global peace is often unattainable in […]
Eric Goldman of Santa Clara and Rebecca Tushnet of Georgetown have written Featuring People in Ads (2014 Edition) from Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (2014 edition). Here's the abstract: This is a book chapter from the 2014 edition of a casebook, Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials, by Rebecca Tushnet and Eric […]
Joel R. Reidenberg, N. Cameron Russell, Alexander J. Callen, Sophia Qasir, and Thomas B. Norton, all of Fordham, have written Privacy Harms and the Effectiveness of the Notice and Choice Framework. Here is the abstract: In the last fifteen years, the Federal Trade Commission and the White House have promoted notice and choice as the […]
by Jeff Sovern Various advocates have been calling recently for the Postal Service to get back into banking to seve the unbanked or underbanked. The financial industry has largely opposed postal banking, preumably because it doesn't want the competition. One way to determine whether postal banking would be a mistake or a positive is to […]
by Jeff Sovern You know those bulletin boards you used to see at some doctors' offices with snapshots of babies they had either treated or delivered? Well, last week, the Times ran an article, Baby Pictures at the Doctor’s? Cute, Sure, but Illegal about how display of the photos where patients and others could see them […]
Ron Elwood has written The Verdict Is in: Payday Lending Is Guilty as Charged, Clearinghouse Review: the Journal of Poverty Law & Policy. Here's the abstract: The payday loan is symptomatic of the failure to provide access to reasonably priced credit. By understanding the fallacies in the arguments used to justify payday loans, advocates can […]