Mark Elliott Budnitz of Georgia State has written The National Consumer Law Center From Its Birth to 2013. Here is the abstract: The article describes, analyzes and evaluates the role played by the National Consumer Law Center, a public interest law firm dedicated to promoting the legal rights of low income consumers, in the development […]
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S.I. Strong of Missouri has written Incentives for Large-Scale Arbitration: How Policymakers Can Influence Party Behaviour. Here's the abstract: At this point, the future of large-scale arbitration (i.e., class, mass and collective procedures) can best be described as mixed. On the one hand, class arbitration has been curtailed in the United States as a result […]
Liran Haim and Ronald J. Mann of Columbia have written Putting Stored-Value Cards in Their Place, 18 Lewis & Clark Law Review 989 (2014). Here is the abstract: This Essay explores the effects of stored-value cards on social welfare. We argue that stored-value cards, in general, are socially beneficial payment devices. Their burgeoning use benefits […]
Hosea H. Harvey of Temple has written Opening Schumer’s Box: The Empirical Foundations of Modern Consumer Finance Disclosure Law, 48 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2014). Here's the abstract: This Article explores the fundamental failure of Congress’ twenty-five-year quest to utilize disclosure as the primary tool to both regulate credit card issuers and […]
Robert H. Klonoff of Lewis & Clark has written Class Actions in the Year 2025: A Prognosis, Forthcoming in the Emory Law Journal. Here is the abstract: In this Article, I reflect on what the federal judiciary has done in recent years, and I attempt to predict what the class action landscape will look like […]
Christine Riefa of Brunel and Christiana Markou of the European University Cyprus have written Online Marketing: Advertisers Know You are a Dog on the Internet!, in Savin, Trzaskowski (Eds) Research Handbook on EU Internet Law (Edward Elgar 2014) 383-410. Here's the abstract: This piece explores the regulation of online marketing. The Internet has enabled advertisers […]
Michael S. Barr of Michigan has written Mandatory Arbitration in Consumer Finance and Investor Contracts, 11 New York University Journal of Law and Business (2015). Here is the abstract: Mandatory pre-dispute arbitration clauses are pervasive in consumer financial and investor contracts — for credit cards, bank accounts, auto loans, broker-dealer services, and many others. These […]
The late great Jean Braucher and Barak Orbach, both of Arizona, have written Scamming: The Misunderstood Confidence Man, 27 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, (2015, Forthcoming). Here's the abstract: Samuel Thompson, the swindler who gave name to confidence men (“con men”) was “a man of genteel appearance,” “ladies’ man,” and gifted with “persuasive powers.” […]
The story, based on a Fed study, is here. Excerpt: New rules designed to make sure borrowers can repay their mortgages haven’t curtailed the ability to buy a home, a Federal Reserve study says. * * * The Fed study didn’t find any evidence of credit restriction as a result of the rules. For instance, […]
Thomas A. Durkin, Gregory Elliehausen, both of the Fed, and Todd J. Zywicki of George Mason have written Consumer Credit and the American Economy: An Overview, Forthcoming in the Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, Here is the abstract: This article provides an introduction to a law review symposium by the Journal of Law, Economics, and […]