"Teaching Consumer Law–Where We've Been–Where We're Going" will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 18-19th. The Conference is designed for those teaching consumer law, those interested in teaching consumer law full-time or as an adjunct, and anyone interested in discussing the consumer law issues law professors are thinking about. The registration fee is […]
David Horton of California, Davis has written Clause Construction: A Glimpse into Judicial and Arbitral Decision-Making, Duke Law Journal, Vol. 68, Forthcoming. Here is the abstract: For decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has insisted that forcing a plaintiff to arbitrate — rather than allowing her to litigate — does not affect the outcome of a dispute. […]
by Jeff Sovern The CFPB protects consumers in a number of ways. Perhaps the three most important things it does are enforce the law, supervise some financial institutions, and create rules. A less important mechanism, but still important, is maintaining its complaint database. All of these seem to be coming under attack under Interim director […]
David A. Hyman of Georgetown and William E. Kovacic of GW and , King's College London – The Dickson Poon School of Law have written Implementing Privacy Policy: Who Should Do What?. Here's the abstract: Academic scholarship on privacy has focused on the substantive rules and policies governing the protection of personal data. An extensive literature […]
The Federal Trade Commission reports that the number of consumer complaints about fraud dropped in 2017, but consumers reported losing more money than they did in 2016. The data book includes national statistics, as well as a state-by-state listing of top report categories in each state, and a listing of metropolitan areas that generated the […]
Belinda Reeveand Roger Magnusson, both of The University of Sydney Law School have written Regulation of Food Advertising to Children in Six Jurisdictions: A Framework for Analyzing and Improving the Performance of Regulatory Instruments, 35 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law (2018). Here is the abstract: Childhood obesity is a public health crisis, and globally, […]
In this Atlantic piece, Derek Thompson helps expose the farcical Trump tax cut for what it is: Corporate stock buybacks in the first 6 weeks of 2018 "reached historical high[s], totaling about $170 billion. That’s 28 times larger than the total value of end-of-year [worker] bonuses that were [wrongly] credited to the corporate tax bill."
by Jeff Sovern Many localities require restaurants to post their health department grades at their entrance so diners can decide whether the restaurant is safe to patronize. One of my students, Vasilios D. Lolis, saw the picture below on Instagram. Can you spot the grade? (I lack the technical know-how to eliminate the caption) This points […]
by Jeff Sovern Mr. Mulvaney has served as interim CFPB director since November 25, or three months and two days. The CFPB has yet to announce commencement of an enforcement action during that period, though it has dismissed an enforcement action. For comparison, during 2016, the Bureau brought 42 enforcement actions, meaning that if it […]
Politico reports: The Trump administration is taking steps to shield student loan collection companies from state regulators, over the objections of consumer advocates and even some Republican attorneys general. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is preparing to issue a declaration that companies collecting federal student loans are off limits for state lawmakers and regulators. The “notice […]