Andrea J. Boyack of Missouri has written Abuse of Contract: Boilerplate Erasure of Consumer Counterparty Rights, Iowa Law Review, Forthcoming. Here’s the abstract: Contract law and the new Restatement of the Law of Consumer Contracts generally treats the entirety of the company’s boilerplate as presumptively binding. Entrusting the content of consumer contracts to companies creates a […]
Author Archives: Jeff Sovern
We received the following announcement: Join us in a discussion from diverse perspectives on how the National Association of Realtors settlement will affect the real estate industry Friday, April 12, 2024 | 12:30 to 4 pm (CT) Walter F. Mondale Hall Room 30, Sub-plaza (In-person) 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota In-person – or – […]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Law Scholarship, Unfair & Deceptive Acts & Practices (UDAP), including Discrimination
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Use of Unfairness to Regulate Discriminatory Conduct: A Discussion of the Consumer and Industry Perspectives
Here. I spoke about my recent article, Is Discrimination Unfair?, on the podcast.
Policy battles over consumer protection often hinge on what’s better for consumers. That’s because consumer advocates often call for reforms that will aid consumers while the industry, which presumably doesn’t want to oppose proposals based simply on the position that they will cut into industry profits, instead attacks the claim that the reforms will actually […]
A. Oloyede, I. Ajibade, C. Obunadike, A. Phillips, O. Shittu, E. Taiwo, all of Austin Peay State University, and S. Kizor-Akaraiwe of the University of Washington have written A Review of Cybersecurity as an Effective Tool for Fighting Identity Theft across United States, 12 International Journal on Cybernetics and Informatics, No.5, (October 2023). Here is […]
Richard Frankel of Drexel has written Fighting Mass Arbitration: An Empirical Study of the Corporate Response to Mass Arbitration and Its Implications for the Federal Arbitration Act. Here’s the abstract: Over the last forty years, corporations have increasingly inserted mandatory arbitration provisions into their consumer and employment contracts. Most prominently, and with the Supreme Court’s blessing, […]
We received the following announcement: The National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA) is pleased to announce its first annual Summer Consumer Law Fellowship Project. The Fellowship will pay a $5,000 stipend to at least five (5) students who spend the summer months working for a NACA member non-profit, legal-aid, or private consumer law firm on […]
Here’s the announcement: Teaching Consumer Law Conference “Teaching Consumer Law in a Changing Environment” Santa Fe, New Mexico May 17-18, 2024 Preceded by the Law School Consumer Clinic Conference on May 16 The Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice at the UC Berkeley School of Law and The Center for Consumer Law […]
I think this is great. Here’s the announcement: The National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA) is pleased to announce its first annual 2-year Consumer Law Fellowship. For the first fellowship we are offering, NACA is partnering with Jacksonville Area Legal Aid (JALA). The program is designed to encourage new law school graduates to pursue a […]