Joshua Mitts of Sullivan & Cromwell has written How Effective is Mandatory Disclosure? Here's the abstract: Mandatory disclosure lies at the cornerstone of consumer protection law but its efficacy is unclear. I conduct one of the first online experiments on mandatory disclosure by evaluating a recent proposal to warn consumers of unexpected, unfavorable terms. To […]
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The Georgetown Consumer Law Society and Citizen Works are hosting a symposium, Making the Fine Print Fair, at Georgetown on April 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Speakers include FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez; Ralph Nader; Georgetown Dean William Treanor; Associate Dean Gregory Klass; Professors David Vladeck, Adam Levitin; CL&P bloggers Deepak Gupta, Scott Michaelman, […]
Not this hard! You can read about Theresa Amato's and my Don Quixote imitation here.
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 […]
Here. A look at the bigger picture, and a lot of sage advice.
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 […]