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17 Nov 2014, 12:35 pm by Alan S. Kaplinsky and Mark J. Levin
Levin Jeff Sovern, through his Consumer Law & Policy Blog, recently responded to our criticism that the St. [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 7:34 am by Paul Kirgis
My colleague Jeff Sovern has posted a full response at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 12:16 pm by Jeremy Telman
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]
3 Nov 2014, 5:52 am by Rebecca Tushnet
., Jeff Sovern  et al., "Whimsy Little Contracts" with Unexpected Consequences: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Understanding of Arbitration Agreements. [read post]
2 Nov 2014, 6:53 am by Paul Kirgis
Jeff Sovern, Elayne Greenberg, Yuxiang Liu, and I recently completed a study of consumer understanding of arbitration agreements to test the widespread assumption that consumers are the unwitting and unwilling beneficiaries of arbitration agreements. [read post]
24 Sep 2014, 3:56 am by Jeremy Telman
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]
24 Mar 2014, 5:04 am by Rebecca Tushnet
  From the Consumer Law & Policy Blog: Speakers include FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez; Ralph Nader; Georgetown Dean William Treanor; Associate Dean Gregory Klass; Professors David Vladeck, Adam Levitin; CL&P bloggers Deepak Gupta, Scott Michaelman, and Jeff Sovern; NACA Executive Director Ira Rheingold; Citizen Works Executive Director Theresa Amato; Professors Nancy Kim, Omri Ben-Shahar, Margaret Jane Radin, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Michael Rustad, and Lauren Willis;… [read post]
6 Sep 2013, 1:01 pm by Staci Zaretsky
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong… Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Jeff Sovern, Laptops, Law Professors, Law Schools, Law Students, Quote of the Day, St. [read post]
21 Jul 2013, 7:58 am by Ken Laino
But as Jeff Sovern and Ira Rheingold note, credit bureaus are heavily dependent on lenders for both revenue and information. [read post]
16 Jul 2013, 4:00 am by Alan S. Kaplinsky
  In his post, Jeff correctly notes that there is no private right of action to enforce Section 1031. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 7:00 am by Jeremy T. Rosenblum
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]
1 Apr 2013, 6:01 am by Christopher J. Willis
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]
27 Mar 2013, 9:24 am by Christopher J. Willis
  More recently, Jeff Sovern posted a blog entry over on the Public Citizen blog that caught my attention, and I wanted to respond to Jeff’s comments. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 10:29 am by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern A new Fannie Mae survey reports that nearly half of lower-income respondents and more than a third of higher-income respondents obtain quotes from only one mortgage lender. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 10:54 am by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern One of the groups, the Woodstock Institute, has a report here. [read post]
9 Sep 2012, 11:14 am by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern I have been listening to the audio version of Dan Areily's book, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty, and it may shed some light on consumer protection.  Ariely explores the causes and limits of dishonesty.  He reports on a series of experiments that suggest that many people cheat a little, but not so much as they could get away with, or, to put it another way, so much as economists presuming rational behavior would predict they would.  Ariely… [read post]
8 Sep 2012, 4:29 am by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern A fellow named Eric Grover had a piece atacking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the Washington Times this week titled "CFPB’s unchecked power. [read post]