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11 Aug 2010, 11:00 am
by Jeff Sovern At the risk of being a nag, I'm wondering when the President will nominate the new director of the CFPB. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 1:07 pm
by Jeff Sovern I just finished the audio version of Neil Barofsky's book Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street. [read post]
25 Jan 2010, 9:38 am
by Jeff Sovern Yesterday I blogged about how the Fed's Commentary directs lenders making Truth in Lending disclosures for adjustable loans to assume that interest rates will remain the same as they are at the date of closing. [read post]
6 Aug 2009, 6:58 am
by Jeff Sovern The Times has another article today about the tug of war between existing federal regulators and the Obama administration over the desirability of establishing a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency or allowing the existing agencies to keep their consumer protection jurisdiction, Geithner Takes Regulators to Task on Turf Battle. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 5:56 pm
by Jeff Sovern More and more anecdotal information is surfacing to supplement the empirical data indicating that consumers don't read disclosures. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 2:03 pm
by Jeff Sovern The Oregonian's Personal Finance Columnist, Brent Hunsberger, has a column here on his experience with rebate cards. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 5:57 am
by Jeff Sovern Brian posted earlier a link to the Times article about debt collectors. [read post]
2 Jul 2009, 5:56 pm
by Jeff Sovern Some interesting articles in the New York Times today: One article, Bank Fees Rise as Lenders Try to Offset Losses, may shed some light on the claim that banks are raising credit card fees in response to passage of the Credit CARD Act. [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 7:32 am
by Jeff Sovern Today's Times has an editorial, "Subprime in Black and White," as a follow-up to the article earlier this week about the NYU Furman Center Study (that Brian Wolfman blogged about here) finding that neighborhoods with a majority of borrowers of color have a higher incidence of subprime loans than majority-white neighborhoods, even when they have similar median income levels. [read post]
19 Nov 2007, 2:33 pm
"); see generally Jeff Sovern, Paradigm and Paradox in New York Consumer Credit Law: After Holder in Due Course, 6 Annual Rev. [read post]
14 Jun 2021, 12:48 pm
In a recent guest post, Professor Mark Budnitz voiced support for Professor Jeff Sovern’s recent proposal that the CFPB issue a rule barring the use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements unless consumers opt in to them. [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]
22 Jun 2010, 5:07 am
Yesterday, Jeff Sovern blogged on the House conferees' "offer" on the consumer financial reform bureau provisions of the financial reform legislation. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 4:28 pm
by Jeff Sovern The Republican National Committee released a white paper today that included this comment on consumer protection: Republicans believe that markets make for efficient economies. [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 5:53 am
Last week, Professor Jeff Sovern of St. [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 11:22 am
Jeff Sovern blogged yesterday about the New York Times article. [read post]
27 Mar 2008, 10:30 pm
John's Law School Professor Jeff Sovern has published a one-act play on SSRN entitled Rankings: A Dramatization of the Incentives Created by Ranking Law Schools. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 8:00 am
Friend of the blog Jeff Sovern, and his co-authors are creating quite a stir with their article that has been topping the charts on SSRN, 'Whimsy Little Contracts' with Unexpected Consequences: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Understanding of Arbitration Agreements.... [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 10:36 am
Consumer Law & Policy Blog, The US News Rankings, Employment Statistics, and Consumer Protection, by Jeff Sovern (St. [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 11:25 am
Jeff Sovern (St. [read post]
