Raymond H. Brescia of Albany has written Regulating the Sharing Economy: New and Old Insights into an Oversight Regime for the Peer-to-Peer Economy, 95 Nebraska Law Review 2016 (Forthcoming). Here is the abstract: The significant expansion of new, peer-to-peer businesses, supercharged by the internet and mobile technologies, has led to an exploration of the proper […]
Category Archives: Consumer Law Scholarship
David A. Hoffman of Temple has written From Promise to Form: How Contracting Online Changes Consumers. Here is the abstract: I hypothesize that different experiences with online contracting have led some consumers to see contracts — both online and offline — in distinctive ways. Experimenting on a large, nationally representative, sample, this paper provides evidence […]
John Y. Campbell of Harvard's Department of Economics has written Restoring Rational Choice: The Challenge of Consumer Financial Regulation. Here is the abstract: This lecture considers the case for consumer financial regulation in an environment where many households lack the knowledge to manage their financial affairs effectively. The lecture argues that financial ignorance is pervasive […]
Joel R. Reidenberg of Fordham, Jaspreet Bhatia and Travis Breaux, both of Carnegie Mellon,and Thomas B. Norton also of Fordham have written Automated Comparisons of Ambiguity in Privacy Policies and the Impact of Regulation. Here is the abstract: Website privacy policies often contain ambiguous language that undermines the purpose and value of privacy notices for […]
Former FTC Commissioner Joshua D. Wright, now of George Mason, and John M. Yun of the FTC have written Stop Chug-a-Lug-a-Lugin 5 Miles an Hour on Your International Harvester: How Modern Economics Brings the FTC's Unfairness Analysis Up to Speed with Digital Platforms, 6 George Washington Law Review, 2130 (2015). Here is the abstract: In this […]
Omri Ben-Shahar and Adam S. Chilton both of Chicago have written Simplification of Privacy Disclosures: An Experimental Test. Here's the abstract: Simplification of disclosures is widely regarded as an important goal and is increasingly mandated by regulations in a variety of areas of the law. In privacy law, simplification of disclosures is near universally supported. […]
Christopher R. Drahozal of Kansas has written Confidentiality in Consumer and Employment Arbitration, 7 Yearbook on Arbitration & Mediation ___ (forthcoming 2015). Here is the abstract: This article examines an apparent misperception among some commentators about the confidentiality of consumer and employment arbitration in the U.S. Arbitration is a private process—i.e., the public cannot attend […]
The late Jean Braucher of Arizona and Angela K. Littwin of Texas have written Examination as a Method of Consumer Protection, 87 Temple Law Review, 807 (2015). Here is the abstract: Lack of compliance with consumer protection law has been a crucial problem in the field for as long as such law has existed. The Consumer […]
Ibrahim Altaweel of Good Research, Nathan Good, also of Good Research, and Chris Jay Hoofnagle of Berkeley have posted their updated Web Privacy Census, Technology Science 2015121502, Online. Here is the abstract: Most people may believe that online activities are tracked more pervasively now than they were in the past. In 2011, we started surveying […]
Jeffrey Davis of Florida has written Regulating for the First Time the Decision to Grant Consumer Credit: A Look at the First Steps Taken by the United States and Australia. Here is the abstract: In this Article, I discuss the changes in three consumer-credit realms. First, I compare the Australian regime applicable to all forms […]