Category Archives: Conferences

2d Annual Berkeley Consumer Law Scholars Conference to be held March 5-6

From the announcement: The Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice is pleased to announce that the second annual Consumer Law Scholars Conference will be held at the UC Berkeley School of Law on March 5-6, 2020. The conference will provide those who publish in the field of Consumer Law the opportunity to share […]

Another survey of consumer law professors fails to find any who always reads consumer contracts before signing them

by Jeff Sovern Regular blog subscribers may recall that last year, at Richard Alderman's Teaching Consumer Law Conference, I asked two questions of attendees about whether they read contracts or required disclosures (those results are available here). James Nehf generously allowed me to ask the same questions at his IACL conference last week.  The IACL […]

Berkeley Consumer Law Scholars Conference 2019 Opens This Thursday

The Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice is holding its Consumer Law Scholars Conference on Thursday and Friday. More information, including the papers to be discussed, here.  The Conference has an impressive list of participants and it promises to be a terrific event.

CFP: International Association of Consumer Law Conference to be held in Indianapolis

The International Association of Consumer Law has put out a call for papers for its 17th Annual Conference to take place in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 13-15, 2019. The theme is “Innovation and the Transformation of Consumer Law.”  The abstract (max. 500 words) submission deadline is: 15 December 2018. Submit to: IACL2019submissions@gmail.com. Quoting from the CFP: […]

Exciting CFP: Berkeley Consumer Law Scholars Conference

We have received the following call for papers appearing below. This one looks especially exciting for consumer law scholars: it's at an elite law school and has an impressive roster of organizers.  The Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice, its director Ted Mermin, and co-organizers Abbye Atkinson, Kathleen Engel, Rory Van Loo, and […]

2019 International Association of Consumer Law (IACL) Conference to be in Indiana next June

We received the following announcement: The next conference of the International Association of Consumer Law (IACL) will be held at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis on June 13-15, 2019. This is the first time that the conference will be held in the United States, and we are hoping to get a good turnout from consumer law […]

Call for Papers for Symposium on Post-Secondary Education Non-Completion and Student Loan Debt

We've received the following call for papers: Submission Due Date:  Sunday, June 17, 2018 at midnight The Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, Boston College Law School, and the National Consumer Law Center are pleased to announce a symposium on Post-Secondary Education Non-Completion and Student Loan Debt to take place at Boston College Law […]

What Would You Like to See in a Consumer Law Casebook?

By Jeff Sovern During next month’s Teaching Consumer Law Conference, I intend to survey the audience about what topics they would like to have in a consumer law casebook, as part of the process of preparing the fifth edition of our consumer law casebook (with Dee Pridgen and Chris Peterson). I plan to ask whether […]