by Jeff Sovern I posted on SSRN the results of the survey I previously blogged about, The Content of Consumer Law Classes III. This follows similar surveys in 2008 and 2010 (I bet you can guess what their titles are). The abstract for the new version reads as follows: This paper reports on a 2018 survey of law […]
Category Archives: Teaching Consumer Law
by Jeff Sovern At the Teaching Consumer Law conference, on Friday, I asked questions of those who have taught consumer law recently or intend to teach it in the near future. The questions, in a somewhat different form because of the limits of the survey software, were drawn from the survey that appears below the […]
By Jeff Sovern During next month’s Teaching Consumer Law Conference, I intend to survey the audience about what topics they would like to have in a consumer law casebook, as part of the process of preparing the fifth edition of our consumer law casebook (with Dee Pridgen and Chris Peterson). I plan to ask whether […]
Here is the tweet. It's always great to see a consumer law professor at a school ranked in the top twenty-five. Congratulations to UCI on its good judgment and to Dalié on the move.
by Jeff Sovern Mike posted earlier today about Berkeley's new Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice, funded by a major gift from Elizabeth Cabraser and to be headed at least for now by Ted Mermin, a terrific choice. Berkeley also has Chris Hoofnagle, a prolific writer on privacy and consumer law. With this gift, Berkeley joins Georgetown […]
With a $3.5 million gift from Elizabeth Cabraser, Berkeley Law is launching the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice. Additional info is available here. According to the press release, the center will "deliver research and analysis to fuel meaningful policy change. It will produce white papers, file amicus briefs in consumer cases in […]
by Jeff Sovern My co-author, Dee Pridgen, has created a supplement for our casebook to bring it up to date since it is now nearly four years old (we plan to produce a new edition in 2019). If you want a copy, please email her directly at Pridgen@uwyo.edu.
by Jeff Sovern For years, fans of economics have attempted to convert judges and lawyers to their mode of analyzing legal problems. For example, George Mason's Scalia Law School's Law & Economics Center has offered programs for judges for nearly four decades, and thus far has attracted more than 4,000 judges to its programs. It […]
by Jeff Sovern My co-author, Dee Pridgen, has co-authored with Gene A. Marsh a new version of Consumer Protection Law in a Nutshell (disclosure: I read and commented on some chapters in draft). One of the problems with teaching the course in recent years has been the lack of an updated companion volume that students could use […]
We received the following announcement: ALBANY LAW SCHOOL invites applications for an entry-level tenure-track position to teach a range of commercial, consumer and business law courses. We are especially interested in candidates with experience and expertise in the following subject matter areas: sales, payments, consumer law, mortgages and liens, corporations, regulatory compliance, creditor’s rights, and/or […]