Nicholas R. Parrillo of Yale has written Administrative Law as a Choice of Business Strategy: Comparing the Industries Who Have Routinely Sued Their Regulators with the Industries Who Rarely Have. Here’s the abstract: For some large and powerful industries, it has long been normal and even routine for businesses to sue their federal regulator. For other […]
Category Archives: Consumer Law Scholarship
Mark Bartholomew of SUNY Buffalo and Samuel Becher of Victoria University of Wellington have written The End of Shopping. Here’s the abstract: Self-acting “shopping agents” are no longer science fiction. Deployed by major platforms like Google, Amazon, and Walmart, AI systems are evolving from passive advisors to autonomous decision-makers capable of opening accounts, canceling subscriptions, and […]
Meirav Furth of Tel-Aviv University School of Law and NYU Law has written Discrimination in Contractual Performance : Theory, Evidence, and Preliminary Policy Prescriptions. Here’s the abstract This Article examines the often-overlooked practice of “selective performance” of standard form consumer contracts-where sellers permit employees to exercise discretion by waiving or modifying contractual terms to maintain customer […]
Alexa Rosenbloom of Harvard has written The Pervasive and Troubling use of Coverage Attorneys in Assembly-Line Litigation, 33 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol’y (2026) (forthcoming). Here’s the abstract: Debt collection cases dominate state court civil dockets in Massachusetts and across the country. Extant scholarship regarding debt collection in the courts has focused on […]
At the Consumer Policy Center. Here’s an excerpt from the announcement: In July 2025, a new congressional law [the so-called Genius Ac] purported to provide adequate consumer protections for this new payment method. Yet, according to a Consumer Policy Center (CPC) report issued today, the law includes far fewer protections than provided for other payment methods such […]
We received the following: The American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers is pleased to announce its 2026 annual writing competition to recognize significant written contributions to the field of U.S. consumer financial services law in the following categories: a) Books b) Publishable articles, book chapters, or substantial book reviews by a professional in the […]
As regular readers of the blog know, Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor podcast often interviews consumer legal scholars about their scholarship. Consequently, Alan Kaplinsky is always on the lookout for articles to feature on the podcast. If you have an article that you think might be of interest to Consumer Finance Monitor podcast listeners, please […]
We received the following call for papers: The Loyola University Chicago Law Journal is seeking authors interested in writing articles for its Fourth Issue. This issue highlights legal developments related to Illinois or the Seventh Circuit, though we welcome submissions that address broader topics and incorporate only a portion of Illinois-related analysis. We are especially interested […]
Jonathan S. Gould of Berkeley & Rory Van Loo of BU have written Legislating for the Future, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 375 (2025). The article is about legislation to prevent financial crises but much of it applies to consumer protection statutes in general. They say, for example: Members of Congress focus on their immediate […]
Patricia A. McCoy of Boston College has written Inflection Points in The Drafting of the Restatement on Consumer Contracts: Salience and Its ARC. Here’s the abstract: When the Reporters of the Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts (RCK or Restatement) undertook that project for the American Law Institute, they faced a bind. Courts generally infer blanket […]