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23 Feb 2024, 10:00 am
Andrew Blair-Stanek, Patricia Campbell, Donald Gifford, Guha Krishnamurthi, Robert Percival, Jeff Sovern, Maureen Sweeney, Donald Tobin & Liza Vertinsky (Maryland), GPT Gets Its First Law School B+ Grades Courthouse News Service, Students And Alumni Association Sue Golden Gate For Closing Its JD Program Katya Cronin (George Washington), The Intentional Pursuit... [read post]
20 Feb 2024, 4:00 am
Percival (Maryland), Jeff Sovern (Maryland; Google Scholar), Maureen Sweeney (Maryland), Donald B. [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 4:00 am
Brake, The New Gender Panic in Sport: Why State Laws Banning Transgender Athletes Are Unconstitutional, (ConLawNOW, Vol. 15, p. 33, 2024).Jeff Sovern, Is Discrimination Unfair? [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 9:05 pm
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5 Sep 2023, 7:38 am
Professor Jeff Sovern recently blogged about the FTC’s June 2023 revisions to its Endorsement Guide. [read post]
21 Aug 2023, 5:21 am
Professor Jeff Sovern, who recently joined the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law faculty, has recently blogged about a forthcoming Study by academicians at other institutions that will be published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. [read post]
8 Aug 2023, 1:48 pm
Congratulations to Professor Jeff Sovern who was recently named the inaugural Michael Millemann Professor of Consumer Protection Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 5:53 am
Last week, Professor Jeff Sovern of St. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 8:54 am
For the past decade, Professor Jeff Sovern has criticized companies for including opt out provisions in their consumer arbitration clauses, even though such provisions give consumers freedom of choice by allowing them to reject arbitration without affecting the other contractual terms. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 1:05 pm
In a recent blog post, Professor Jeff Sovern contends that the case against consumer arbitration has been bolstered by the fact that a lawyer for the “conservative” Competitive Enterprise Institute made positive remarks about the importance of the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in testifying at a House Financial Services Committee hearing. [read post]
15 Sep 2022, 9:05 am
In any event, as we observed in debating these issues with Professor Jeff Sovern, it is understandable why the CFPB is reluctant to add arbitration rulemaking to its already robust regulatory agenda. [read post]
5 Aug 2022, 4:51 am
In a blog post published on July 30 on Consumer Law and Policy Blog [link], Professor Jeff Sovern discusses comments from CFPB officials that the Bureau will not use the disparate effects or impact test to determine if discrimination has occurred when using its UDAAP authority. [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 9:10 am
As many of our blog readers know, Alan Kaplinsky and Professor Jeff Sovern have regularly engaged in legal debate about consumer finance issues via blog posts. [read post]
20 May 2022, 5:56 am
Recently, Professor Jeff Sovern and I exchanged views on whether the CFPB could (or should) add arbitration rulemaking to its regulatory agenda. [read post]
13 May 2022, 6:55 am
Don’t hold your breath, Professor Sovern! [read post]
2 May 2022, 3:55 pm
In a new blog post published on the Consumer Law & Policy Blog, Professor Jeff Sovern advocates very strongly in support of interpreting the “unfairness” prong of UDAAP to encompass discrimination in connection with credit and non-credit consumer financial products and services offered by banks and other persons covered by the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA). [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 3:24 am
Professor Jeff Sovern (St. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 1:41 pm
I want to thank Professor Jeff Sovern, a prominent consumer advocate and my frequent sparring partner, for his recent praise of our podcast. [read post]
14 Mar 2022, 10:53 am
A recent blog by Professor Jeff Sovern, occasioned by the recent Senate hearing on consumer arbitration clauses, recycles two of his favorite talking points: (1) consumers don’t understand arbitration clauses, and (2) consumers only benefit from post-dispute, not pre-dispute, arbitration. [read post]
4 Oct 2021, 8:45 am
In a recent “open letter” to newly confirmed CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, Professor Jeff Sovern asks the agency not to forget about “arbitration” as it implements its regulatory agenda. [read post]
