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 […]
Category Archives: Teaching Consumer Law
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 […]
More information here. Here's a quote from the announcement (some may disagree with the first nine words but the rest is exciting): Best place to live and teach in the U.S.: The Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana, the only law school in the state, anticipates hiring a full-time, tenure-track professor […]
Well, on the July 2015 MPT anyway. Go here, then scroll down to the Bryan Carr problem beginning on page nine for a problem drawing on the Truth in Lending Act. (HT: Genevieve Hebert Fajardo)
by Jeff Sovern A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran an op-ed by Georgetown Law Professor David Cole, titled What Liberals Can Learn From the N.R.A. Consumer advocates who seek to change the law would find the entire piece worth reading, but I was particularly struck by one paragraph (which is self-serving, both when […]
by Jeff Sovern The University of Montana Law School (where my colleague and co-author of the St. John's Arbitration Study, Paul Kirgis, is heading to take up the deanship) has just announced a $10 million gift by alum Alexander "Zander" Blewett and his wife, Andy, part of which will fund a chair in consumer law […]
by Jeff Sovern A professor who is new to teaching consumer law has asked about skills exercises (also called active learning exercises) professors could require of students. I suggested having a student write a demand letter that didn’t violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (or that did), writing a privacy policy, or perhaps one of the many […]
by Jeff Sovern In preparation for remarks at the University of Houston's Teaching Consumer Law Conference, to be held this year in Santa Fe in May, I asked my research assistant, Preston Postlethwaite, to review the web sites of the ABA-accredited schools to see which are teaching consumer law courses this school year. According to Preston, 49 […]
Here, with links to purchase the articles. The issue includes remarks from a program at the 2013 AALS Annual Meeting jointly sponsored by The Sections on Poverty Law and Clinical Legal Education, entitled The Debt Crisis and the National Response: Big Changes or Tinkering at the Edges? The list includes. The articles include: "Owner Finance! No Banks Needed!" […]
by Jeff Sovern The Teacher's Manual for our casebook is now available. Professors thinking of teaching the course who wish to see it and have not already heard from West should get in touch with their account manager to obtain access to to the Manual.