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1 Jun 2010, 12:48 pm
by Jeff Sovern Two years ago, I surveyed attendees at Richard Alderman's University of Houston Teaching Consumer Law Conference about their course coverage; the results are here. [read post]
7 Sep 2009, 10:41 am
by Jeff Sovern Friday's Times brought For Your Health, Froot Loops about an industry-backed labeling campaign called "Smart Choices" that's "designed to help shoppers easily identify smarter food and beverage choices. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 8:37 am
by Jeff Sovern Many opponents of the CFPB come from the so-called Bible Belt, so it's interesting to see what the Bible says about consumer protection. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 10:22 am
by Jeff Sovern I've just posted to SSRN a draft of a paper titled Written Notice of Cooling-Off Periods: A Forty-Year Natural Experiment in Illusory Consumer Protection and the Relative Effectiveness of Oral and Written Disclosures. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 5:20 pm
by Jeff Sovern I've been reading Dan Immergluck's fine book, Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America's Mortgage Market (2009). [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 5:53 pm
by Jeff Sovern The stated reason for housing the Consumer Financial Protection within the Department of the Treasury rather than operating it as an independent agency is the importance of safety and soundness regulation; the fear is that an independent CFPA might mandate conduct that would impair the safety and soundness of financial institutions. [read post]
8 Feb 2009, 3:10 pm
by Jeff Sovern The National Consumer Law Center released a report authored by Chi Chi Wu last week, Automated Injustice: How a Mechanized Dispute System Frustrates Consumers Seeking to Fix Errors in Their Credit Reports, that charges that Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion handle credit reporting disputes "in an automated and perfunctory manner. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 11:44 am
by Jeff Sovern Law professors and those interested in education may be interested in the draft I just posted on SSRN of the above-titled article. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 5:44 pm
by Jeff Sovern Recently I was at the home of a family with a two-year old. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 7:00 am
RosenblumJeff Sovern and I come at most issues from different sides of the street but I want to credit him for the open mind he showed in his recent blog post on deposit advance loans. [read post]
24 Jan 2010, 1:32 pm
by Jeff Sovern Yesterday the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a piece I wrote about how the Fed's TILA disclosures misled the subprime borrowers. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 1:35 pm
by Jeff Sovern I was lucky enough to be invited to attend President Obama's speech at Cooper Union today on financial reform, thanks to the thoughtfullness of Norm Silber of Hofstra. [read post]
15 Jul 2012, 2:20 pm
by Jeff Sovern That's a pretty provocative title, right? [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 7:05 pm
by Jeff Sovern Reports continue to emerge that Senator Dodd has proposed a compromise on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 5:23 am
by Jeff Sovern Today's edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an essay I wrote which they gave the headline "The Private Sector: U.S. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 10:13 am
by Jeff Sovern Brian blogged earlier about Yale professor Jonathan Macey's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week on the CFPB's proposed mortgage rules. [read post]
9 Jul 2010, 10:57 am
by Jeff Sovern A teenager I know responded to a listing for a summer job on Craig's List. [read post]
1 Apr 2013, 6:01 am
WillisI want to thank Jeff Sovern over at the Public Citizen Consumer Law & Policy Blog for having an interesting back-and-forth with me over the last week about the application of the disparate impact theory of liability to dealer finance charge participation in the auto sales finance context. [read post]
24 Sep 2014, 3:56 am
This is the tenth in a series of posts that are part of a virtual symposium on the new book by Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. [read post]
23 Feb 2010, 1:10 pm
by Jeff Sovern Cross-posted from the New Deal 2.0 blog: Martin: How’d you do this year? [read post]
