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15 Jun 2008, 1:23 am
by Jeff Sovern Each year, colleges and universities hike tuition, typically by more than the rate of inflation. [read post]
1 May 2008, 8:10 am
Over at The Faculty Lounge, Alfred Brophy has posted a link to Jeff Sovern's short play, "Rankings:  A Dramatization of the Incentives Created by Ranking Law Schools". [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]
19 Mar 2008, 6:12 pm
by Jeff Sovern In my post of yesterday, drawn from the Pittsbugh Post-Gazette essay, I mentioned how Alan Greenspan's book, The Age of Turbulence, doesn't address predatory lending. [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]
17 Mar 2008, 6:09 pm
by Jeff Sovern I recently finished Robert B. [read post]
29 Feb 2008, 4:24 pm
Rankings: A Dramatization of the Incentives Created by Ranking Law Schools Jeff Sovern, St. [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 10:57 am
by Jeff Sovern Here comes a self-serving post. [read post]
15 Feb 2008, 5:18 pm
by Jeff Sovern One of my goals with this blog has been to raise the profile of consumer law among legal educators. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 7:50 am
by Jeff Sovern The Becker-Posner Blog, written by Law and Economics Guru Richard Posner and the Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker, always offers interesting commentary. [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 1:28 pm
by Jeff Sovern On Tuesday, the Times reported here about a study that confirms what many consumer lawyers already know about the elderly. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 5:03 pm
by Jeff Sovern I've been meaning to post for some time a link to this story in the Times, "Officials Say They Are Falling Behind on Mortgage Fraud Cases" which ran on Christmas day. [read post]
23 Dec 2007, 6:34 pm
by Jeff Sovern The Fed's role in regulating subprime lending--or not--continues to draw comment. [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]
16 Dec 2007, 6:18 pm
by Jeff Sovern    I've been listening to an audio version of Yale law professor Ian Ayres's terrific new book, Super Crunchers, during my commute. [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]
20 Nov 2007, 1:16 pm
by Jeff Sovern For those who can't keep up with all the readings to which this blog links, but who want to learn more about the home foreclosure crisis, you can click on this link to the predatory lending page maintained by the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School and scroll down to find an excellent panel discussion that you can download to your computer and MP3 player. [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]