Here, in the Times's Economic View column. Excerpt: [T]he Trump administration is taking us in the wrong direction, making student loans riskier, more expensive and more burdensome for borrowers. First, the Education Department has weakened accountability for the companies that administer student loans. Second, it has made it more difficult for borrowers to apply for, […]
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler of NYU has written Self-Regulation and Competition in Privacy Policies, 45 Journal of Legal Studies (2016). Here's the abstract I investigate alternative explanations for the content of privacy policies. Under one model of self-regulation, firms signal their privacy protections to consumers by highlighting compliance with third-party guidelines. However, in a sample of 249 […]
Go here or click on the embedded video below. Not surprisingly, Oliver hates the House bill. And he's worried that the Senate will do little to make things better. Rather, he's concerned that the Senate will just "cut a sh*t sandwich in half" and then Congress and Trump will feed it to the country.
Yesterday on HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Oliver explained net neutrality and encouraged people to urge the FCC not to undo the 2016 rule by visiting www.gofccyourself.com. The site takes a minute or so to open, so be patient if you want to comment. Then click "Express" on the right-hand side of the […]
That's the name of this opinion piece by Peter Suderman. Suderman is a critic of the Affordable Care Act who thinks Trumpcare is far worse than the ACA. Some brief excerpts: I have been a critic of Obamacare since it became law, but the Republican alternative is worse in nearly every way. * * * It’s unclear […]
Jonathan Gruber, an MIT econ prof and a key parent of Romneycare and the Affordable Care Act, has written Trump says Obamacare is broken. He’s the one who broke it. Here's an excerpt: What supporters of [Trumpcare] are not admitting, however, is that the ACA’s current failings are due to the misguided policies of Republicans and particularly the […]
I thought our readers might be interested in why conservative Andrew Sullivan believes that Trumpcare Destroys Any Notion That American Conservatism Gives A Damn.
by Jeff Sovern It's for an arbitration symposium at Rutgers and is available for download here. I would love to hear comments! Here's the abstract: In September 2016, regulators charged Wells Fargo with opening millions of unauthorized accounts on behalf of its customers. When some of those customers filed class actions against Wells, the bank initially […]
Sarah Light has written about the concept of Advisory Nonpreemption, using regulation of driverless cars as an example. Here's the abstract: We are living in an era of dramatic and unpredictable technological and business innovation. Federal agencies have been at the forefront of updating substantive legal rules to meet new challenges not originally contemplated by Congress. […]
Report here. Excerpt: One of Jiménez’s biggest undertakings to date is the Financial Distress Research Project, an initiative she supervises with James Greiner and Lois Lupica, law professors at Harvard and the University of Maine law schools respectively. The goal of the enterprise – a signature project of the Access to Justice Lab at Harvard […]