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22 Aug 2007, 11:22 am
Jeff Sovern blogged yesterday about the New York Times article. [read post]
6 Sep 2013, 6:50 am
The National Law Journal reports on a recent article by Jeff Sovern (St. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 12:16 pm
Jeff Sovern (pictured), with whom readers may be familiar from our recent virtual symposium, has a new paper on SSRN, co-authored with three of his St. [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]
22 May 2012, 6:39 am
In this post a while back, Jeff Sovern discussed the sizeable drop in the number of law school applicants and predicted that some law schools would accept students with weaker credentials while others would shrink the size of their classes. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 2:29 am
Jeff Sovern (St Johns) asks a provocative question: Do Law Students Get What They Pay for When Law Professors Blog? [read post]
16 May 2012, 2:33 pm
by Jeff Sovern Quite a bit, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. [read post]
16 Mar 2009, 9:18 am
by Jeff Sovern The unemployed who receive benefits in the form of debit cards often pay fees for the privilege, according to a CNN report. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 5:32 am
Following up on Jeff Sovern's excellent post on the Federal Reserve's proposed rules on predatory lending, here is some more stuff: (1) the proposed rule itself (which runs 163 pages); and (2) a Washington post story on the proposed rules. [read post]
10 Mar 2007, 8:07 am
by Jeff Sovern I have previously blogged here and here about how credit bureaus lack sufficient incentives to prevent identity theft. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 11:42 am
by Jeff Sovern I (and plenty of others) have written in the past about consumer disclosures that haven't worked. [read post]
5 Mar 2009, 5:52 pm
by Jeff Sovern I posted yesterday the abstract of Debra Pogrund Stark's and Jessica M. [read post]
25 Apr 2010, 5:41 pm
by Jeff Sovern I've been listening to the audio version of Simon Johnson and James Kwak's excellent book, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 12:53 pm
by Jeff Sovern Buried deeply within the House financial reform bill--beginning at page 1472--is the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act. [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 7:12 am
by Jeff Sovern Fair Isaac has reported that Experian has terminated their agreement under which FICO credit scores based on Experian's credit data can be made available to consumers, though consumers can still obtain their FICO scores based on TransUnion and Equifax data. [read post]
31 May 2012, 2:11 pm
by Jeff Sovern According to Governor Romney's economic adviser Columbia Business School Dean Glenn Hubbard, Romney will soon propose "a new system of consumer financial regulation that either moves the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau outside of the Federal Reserve or breaks up the new agency and places the powers within existing financial regulators. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 12:57 pm
by Jeff Sovern Ed Mierzwinski and NASDAQ/Dow Jones Newswires have reported that opponents of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have attached riders to appropriations bills to subject CFPB funding to the congressional appropriations process rather than the current system under which the Bureau gets funding outside that process, as is true of other bank regulators like the OCC. [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 12:58 pm
by Jeff Sovern As a teacher of consumer law, and the co-author of a consumer law casebook, I've been trying to figure out what to do about course coverage of the subprime mortgage meltdown. [read post]
25 May 2011, 12:21 pm
by Jeff Sovern Here are two accounts of yesterday's testimony by Elizabeth Warren before a House oversight committee: one by the Times and the other in the Huffington Post. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 12:58 pm
by Jeff Sovern The American Banker has run a couple of pieces on debt collection practices here and here. [read post]
