Jim Hawkins of Houston has written Exploiting Advertising, Law and Contemporary Problems, Forthcoming. Here's the abstract: Advertising’s goal, we all know, is to cause people to spend more money. Often, it exploits bad decision-making to accomplish it. This Article hopes to turn the tables and offer a way for policymakers to exploit the information presented […]
Category Archives: Consumer Law Scholarship
David A. Hyman of Illinois, David J. Franklyn of San Francisco, Calla E. Yee, and Mohammad Hossein Rahmati of Sharif University of Technology have written Going Native: Can Consumers Recognize Native Advertising? Does it Matter? Here's the abstract: Native advertising, which matches the look and feel of unpaid news and editorials, has exploded online. The Federal […]
John M. Newman of Memphis has written The Myth of Free. Here's the abstract: Myths matter. This Article is the first to squarely confront a powerful myth that pervades modern economic, technological, and legal discourse: the Myth of Free. The prevailing view is that consumers capture massive welfare surplus from an ever-rising flood of innovative […]
Adam J. Levitin of Georgetown has written Pandora's Digital Box: Digital Wallets and the Honor All Wallets Rules. Here's the abstract: Digital wallets are poised to transform the world of retailing. These digital wallets, such as ApplePay and Android Pay, are “smart” payment devices that can integrate payments with two-way, real-time communications of any type […]
David L. Noll of Rutgers has written Regulating Arbitration, California Law Review, Forthcoming. Here's the abstract: Arbitration is everywhere, as are calls to regulate its use in consumer and employment contracts. But when should Congress and federal administrative agencies do so? That is, what is the policy rationale for regulating arbitration through federal legislation and agency […]
We received the following call for papers: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is hosting a research and policy conference on Financial Innovation: Online Lending to Households and Small Businesses, to be held in Washington, DC on December 2, 2016. The purpose of the conference is to bring together academics, industry participants, […]
Richard Warner of Chicago-Kent and Robert H. Sloan of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Computer Science Department have written Defending Our Data: The Need for Information We Do Not Have. Here's the abstract: Data breaches occur at the rate of over two a day. The aggregate social cost is high. Security experts have long […]
Max N. Helveston of DePaul has written Consumer Protection in the Age of Big Data, 93 Washington University Law Review (2016). Here is the abstract: The Big Data revolution is upon us. Technological advances in the degree to which third parties can record information about individuals, along with increases in the use of predictive analytics, are transforming […]
Max N. Helveston of DePaul has written Regulating Digital Markets, NYU Journal of Law & Business, Forthcoming. Here is the abstract: It has become popular for scholars and non-academic commentators to claim that technological advances have reshaped consumer markets and empowered individuals. Some have argued that the digitization of commerce has leveled the playing field […]
We have received the following Call for Papers: The AALS Section on Defamation and Privacy is pleased to announce a Call for Papers from which one presenter will be selected for the Section’s program at the 2017 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. The program will take place on Friday, January 6, from 8:30 […]