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30 Jul 2020, 2:00 am by Paul Caron
Renee Allen, Jennifer Baum, Catherine Duryea, Robert Ruescher, Courtney Selby, Eric Shannon, Jeff Sovern & Rachel Smith (St. [read post]
24 May 2010, 1:35 pm by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern The Credit CARD Act required the Fed to post online copies of credit card contracts. [read post]
24 Oct 2007, 6:06 am
by Jeff Sovern We often post abstracts to consumer law articles appearing on SSRN, including abstracts by readers of this blog. [read post]
29 Nov 2009, 7:54 pm by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern For some research I'm doing, I would love to see training materials or scripts mortgage brokers and lenders use  (or used when subprime borrowing was more common) for approaching borrowers. [read post]
23 Feb 2024, 10:00 am by Scott Fruehwald
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]
24 May 2012, 10:25 am by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern Yesterday the Times published an editorial, Full Disclosure for Student Borrowers, which concluded: A bill pending in the Senate would require both colleges and lenders to educate students about the differences between federal loans and riskier, more expensive private loans — and their borrowing options. [read post]
13 May 2022, 6:55 am by Alan S. Kaplinsky
Don’t hold your breath, Professor Sovern! [read post]
29 Feb 2008, 4:24 pm
Rankings: A Dramatization of the Incentives Created by Ranking Law Schools Jeff Sovern, St. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 12:56 pm by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern Deepak pointed out earlier this month that Julie Williams is stepping down from her position as Chief Counsel of the OCC. [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 10:57 am
by Jeff Sovern Here comes a self-serving post. [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 1:14 pm
by Jeff Sovern I have commented before on the December amendments to the credit card provisions of Regulation Z (here and here) but I find that as I prepare to teach them, I have a bit more to say. [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 11:43 am
by Jeff Sovern Subtitle C of the Obama administration's bill to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency would give the CFPA the power to promulgate rules "identifying as unlawful unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices in connection with any transaction with a consumer for a consumer financial product or service. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 2:55 pm by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern Two recent developments illustrate anew the difference between opt-outs and opt-ins. [read post]
23 Jun 2009, 12:37 pm
by Jeff Sovern Critics of Truth in Lending have long complained about the timing of disclosures in mortgage loans: typically, lenders were not required to provide the final loan disclosures until the closing. [read post]
12 Jan 2010, 6:45 am by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern After attending the last three AALS conferences, I wanted to voice a consumer protection perspective. [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 11:19 am
by Jeff Sovern On Wednesday I blogged about whether lenders who trolled for potential borrowers through a federal database containing the financial records of millions of student aid applicants might have violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 11:26 am
by Jeff Sovern The extent of discrimination in lending has long been a hotly-debated subject. [read post]
4 Jan 2009, 6:08 pm
by Jeff Sovern I have accumulated a huge pile of articles from the New York Times on consumer issues, so here goes an attempt to shrink it somewhat. [read post]
8 Mar 2009, 10:35 am
by Jeff Sovern I've been listening to the audio version of Jonah Lehrer's How We Decide, which brings neuroscience to bear on the human decision-making process, and while I'm not done with it yet, I wanted to blog about some of what I've already heard. [read post]