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Category Archives: Teaching Consumer Law
I am delighted to announce (maybe relieved is more accurate; it's been a lot of work!) that in January West will publish the fifth edition of the consumer law casebook that I co-author with Dee Pridgen and Chris Peterson. I'm looking forward to teaching the updated version of the materials that appeared in the last […]
We received the following announcement: The Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice at Berkeley Law is looking for a staff attorney/research fellow to spearhead its work for consumer and economic justice in courts and regulatory agencies. If you know anyone who might be interested in joining the fight – or if you are that […]
Here are Sara's revised statistics, and the listings appear after the jump: 110 classes total (53.92%) 32 clinics total (15.69%) 89 only offer a class (43.63%) 11 only offer a clinic (5.39%) 21 offer both (10.29%) 121 offer either (59.31%)
by Jeff Sovern For a variety of reasons, what elite law schools do has an effect on legal education disproportionate to the numbers of such schools. For one reason, most law professors attended an elite law school, and their vision of what a law school should be is informed by their experiences as students. Consequently, […]
by Jeff Sovern Sara has updated the list once more in light of comments. It appears below the fold. We are still accepting comments, so if you have not yet registered yours, please send it in. As for the statistics, they are as follows: 109 classes total (58.33%) 32 clinics total (15.69%) 88 offer only […]
The London School of Economics is offering an intensive course this summer in European Consumer Law. More information here.
by Jeff Sovern Now that we've heard from some readers about other schools teaching consumer law, a more complete list appears after the jump (if you know of still more schools, please let me know). The totals are even more encouraging than I had thought: 119 schools, or 58.55%, offer either some form of a […]
by Jeff Sovern Five years ago, I posted a list of law schools teaching consumer law, as compiled by my then-research assistant Preston Postlethwaite. I've received requests to update the list, and so I asked another research assistant, Sara Krastins, to do so. Sara examined the web sites for the 204 ABA-approved law schools (she […]
by Jeff Sovern The next edition of our casebook will have a lot more about robocalls. According to a letter from the attorneys general of all 50 states dated yesterday, robocalls and telemarketing calls are the top source of consumer complaints at many AG's offices. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which outlaws some robocalls, also […]