Joanna C. Schwartz of UCLA has written The Cost of Suing Business, forthcoming in the DePaul Law Review. Here's the abstract: To listen to the Chamber of Commerce, one would think that class actions are the most significant scourge on business ever conjured up by man. In brief after brief to the Supreme Court, the […]
Category Archives: Consumer Law Scholarship
Nathalie Martin of New Mexico has written Giving Credit Where Credit is Due: What We Can Learn from the Banking and Credit Habits of Undocumented Immigrants. Here's the abstract: Undocumented immigrants currently make up more than 5% of the U.S. labor force and 7% of school-age children. Numbering over eleven million, undocumented immigrants unquestionably comprise […]
Shauhin A. Talesh of Irvine has written Institutional and Political Sources of Legislative Change: Explaining How Private Organizations Influence the Form and Content of Consumer Protection Legislation, 39 Law and Social Inquiry 973 (2014 ). Here's the abstract: This article explores how private organizations influence the content and meaning of consumer protection legislation. I examine […]
Max N. Helveston of DePaul has written Judicial Deregulation of Consumer Markets, forthcoming in the Cardozo Law Review. Here's the abstract: The dangers posed by insufficiently regulated consumer markets are both real and monumental. While the rights of consumers expanded drastically in the mid-to-late twentieth century, these protections have weakened in the new millennium. […]
Nancy S. Kim of California Western and D. A. Jeremy Telman of Valparaiso have written Internet Giants as Quasi-Governmental Actors and the Limits of Contractual Consent, Forthcoming in the Missouri Law Review. Here is the abstract: Although the government’s data-mining program relied heavily on information and technology that the government received from private companies, relatively little […]
Georgene M. Vairo of Loyola Los Angeles haw written Is the Class Action Really Dead? Is that Good or Bad for Class Members? 64 Emory Law Journal 477 (2014). Here's the abstract: Recent Supreme Court decisions have tightened up the standards for obtaining class certification and virtually eliminate class arbitration as well. However, while the […]
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 […]
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 […]