Cynthia R. Farina, Mary Newhart, and Cheryl L. Blake, all of Cornell, have written The Problem with Words: Plain Language and Public Participation in Rulemaking, George Washington Law Review (2015 Forthcoming). Here's the abstract: The connection between more understandable rulemaking materials and broader, better public participation seems obvious, Yet the series of Presidential and statutory […]
Category Archives: Consumer Law Scholarship
by Jeff Sovern As law students, law professors, and lawyers know, most law reviews are edited by law students, which means that law students select the articles that appear in their journals. The prime submission season is just underway, and so newly-minted law review editors—most in their second year of law school—are choosing among the […]
by Jeff Sovern I'm looking into survey evidence to establish or defend against a claimed violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for a possible article. If you have conducted such a survey in one of your cases or know someone who has, please email me at sovernj at stjohns dot edu. Thanks!
Andrew Cheyne, Pamela Mejia, Laura Nixon, and Lori Dorfman, all of the Berkeley Media Studies Group, have written Food and Beverage Marketing to Youth, Current Obesity Reports, September 2014. Here's the abstract: After nearly a decade of concern over the role of food and beverage marketing to youth in the childhood obesity epidemic, American children […]
Ronald J. Mann of Columbia has written Do Defaults on Payday Loans Matter? Here's the abstract: This essay examines the effect on a borrower’s financial health of failure to repay a payday loan. Recent regulatory initiatives suggest an inclination to add an “ability to pay” requirement to payday-loan underwriting that would be fundamentally inconsistent with […]
Alexandra Power Everhart Sickler of North Dakota has written The Truth Shall Set You Free: Explaining Judicial Hostility to the Truth in Lending Act’s Right to Rescind a Mortgage Loan, forthcoming in the Rutgers Journal of Law and Urban Policy. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court is entertaining a divide among the federal circuits […]
Mary L. Heen of Richmond has written Nondiscrimination in Insurance: The Next Chapter, 49 Georgia Law Review (2014-2015). Here is the abstract: For nearly 150 years, American insurance companies have engaged in race and gender pricing practices that would be illegal if followed today by any other major commercial enterprise. The insurance industry has defended its […]
Wenli Li of the Philadelphia Fed, Ishani Tewari of the Yale School of Management, and Michelle J. White of California, San Diego's Department of Economics and the National Bureau of Economic Research have written Using Bankruptcy to Reduce Foreclosures: Does Strip-Down of Mortgages Affect the Supply of Mortgage Credit? Here's the abstract: We assess the […]
Robert C. Hockett of Cornell has written 'We Don't Follow, We Lead': How New York City Will Save Mortgage Loans by Condemning Them, 124 Yale Law Journal Forum 131 (2014). Here is the abstract: This brief invited essay lays out in summary form the eminent domain plan for securitized underwater mortgage loans that the author […]