Meirav Furth of UCLA and Tel-Aviv University has written Retail Race Discrimination. Here's the abstract: This Article investigates everyday race discrimination while shopping in clothing stores of different price ranges. It reports on an original field experiment which examines the combined effects of race and gender on consumers’ shopping experiences and outcomes. Nineteen testers—Black and white […]
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by Jeff Sovern Probably my favorite podcast is Ballard Spahr's Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast. I learn a tremendous amount from it. Yes, it favors the industry view, as it is certainly entitled to do, but many episodes are devoted to interviewing consumer advocates as well. If you don't listen to it, and you like this […]
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Do Copyright Holders Get a Free Pass to Identify Alleged Infringers? by Paul Alan Levy Suppose that, on June 4, 2022 the owner of a China-based Twitter account were to post this 2005 photo of the Gate of Heavenly Peace, with text calling for remembrance of the martyrs of Tiananmen Square. Suppose further that, […]
by Jeff Sovern Here. That's consistent with Elizabeth Warren's position that the government shouldn't make money on student loans. I wonder what incentives it would create.
We have been asked to post the following: CLASS Network Director Do you want to work every day to advance the rights of low-income consumers? Do you want to lead a national network of law school programs dedicated to building racial and economic justice? Well, then, perhaps this is the job for you. […]
According to a Federal Trade Commission press release, the FTC "is taking action against Intuit Inc., the maker of the popular TurboTax tax filing software, by issuing an administrative complaint against the company for deceiving consumers with bogus advertisements pitching “free” tax filing that millions of consumers could not use. In addition, to prevent ongoing […]
by Jeff Sovern The CFPB has lately been up in arms over credit card late fees. Late fees and many other fees are troubling because it is likely that consumers don't think about them when choosing their credit cards. Classical economics presupposes that consumers will make optimal decisions if they know what prices they will […]
Guest post from Neil Sobol: Howdy consumer law colleagues: This posting requests information to help update my survey on consumer laws offerings in law school. In an August 2020 blog, I forwarded a chart created by my research assistant. The chart was part of a project to update the consumer law offerings chart reported in […]