Here’s the latest announcement: The UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice and the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana are proud to present the fourteenth biennial international Teaching Consumer Law Conference. We are also excited to announce that this conference will constitute the first-ever North American (and Caribbean/Central American) […]
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Here are the speakers scheduled to appear at the moment: Adelina Acuña (UC Berkeley) Craig Cowie (University of Montana) Prentiss Cox (University of Minnesota Law School) Lesley Fair (George Washington University) Jeff Gentes (Yale Law School) Ryan Marquez (University of Houston Law Center) Ted Mermin (UC Berkeley) Andy Milz (Temple University Beasley School of Law) Robert Murphy (University of Virginia School of Law) James […]
More information here. Judging by the proposals already in, it promises to be a very useful conference.
The UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice and the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana are proud to present the fourteenth biennial international Teaching Consumer Law Conference. We are also excited to announce that this conference will constitute the first-ever North American (and Caribbean/Central American) Regional Meeting of the […]
I’m trying to get a handle on just how vulnerable law schools are to an adversarial presidential administration. Here’s my list of potential vulnerabilities so far: Federal grants. Because few, if any, law schools receive substantial federal grants, this lever is not very effective against law schools—directly. But see item 5 below. Foreign Students. Law […]
We often see reports complaining that professors are indoctrinating students by conveying only one side of the story. So I asked 31 consumer law professors: when you teach consumer law, how important is it to you that students hear arguments you yourself disagree with? As reported in Who Teaches Consumer Law? forthcoming in the Journal […]
I wrote Who Teaches Consumer Law? forthcoming in the Journal of Consumer & Commercial Law. Here’s the abstract: This paper reports on a survey of 31 law professors teaching consumer protection law conducted in connection with the Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice at the UC Berkeley School of Law and the Center for Consumer Law […]
Regular readers of the blog will recall seeing a draft of my survey questions for consumer law professors. Attendees at the Teaching Consumer Law conference answered the final survey questions, but I would also love to receive responses from those who could not attend the conference and who have either taught consumer law or hope […]
I plan to survey participants in the Teaching Consumer Law Conference, to be held May 17-18 in Santa Fe, about various matters, and then present the results at the conference. I’ve posted below multiple-choice questions I am thinking about asking. I’m also hoping to follow each question with an invitation to say more. Are there […]
Neil L. Sobol of Texas A&M has written Consumer Law for Gen Z Law Students, 66 Arizona Law Review (2024). Here’s the abstract: Whether they are consumers, representing consumers, or advising clients dealing with consumers, law school graduates will inevitably confront numerous consumer law issues. Moreover, most students entering law school are members of Generation Z and […]