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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]
26 Aug 2008, 8:45 pm
by Jeff Sovern I am pleased to announce that the 2008 supplement to our casebook is now finished. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 6:13 pm
by Jeff Sovern One of my students, Andre Pascariu pointed me to this story about an actor who appeared in a Honda commercial and then decided to take advantage of the leasing offer he had pitched. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 12:34 pm
by Jeff Sovern The 2003 FACTA Act directed federal regulators to issue identity theft guidelines on "red flags" and address discrepancies (identity thieves often use an address other than the consumer's because having credit cards, for example, sent to the consumer-victim will usually do the thief little good). [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 5:39 pm
by Jeff Sovern One of the many interesting provisions of the Credit CARD Act that has not received much attention is the limits it imposes on penalty fees. [read post]
23 Apr 2011, 8:34 am
by Jeff Sovern When we talked in class this semester about how many credit card issuers send out "pre-screened" credit card applications, I mentioned how identity thieves famously "dumpster dive" for them after the consumer has thrown them away, fill them out, and send them in, using the identity thief's address. [read post]
24 Mar 2007, 5:35 pm
by Jeff Sovern The New York Times has had several interesting articles on consumer law issues today and yesterday. [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]
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]
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 Apr 2009, 10:24 am
by Jeff Sovern PC World reports here on a bill aimed at spam sent as text messages to cell phones. [read post]
13 May 2009, 2:16 pm
by Jeff Sovern The American Banker ran a piece I wrote in their Viewpoints section today titled "Borrowers Must Understand Their Obligations" (the American Banker's content is available only to subscribers but they offer a free two-week trial subscription if you want to read the piece). [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 9:11 am
by Jeff Sovern Here. [read post]
11 Apr 2009, 2:56 pm
by Jeff Sovern Consumer protection has been much in the news these days, but based on a quick look, there don't seem to be a lot of columnists who specialize in consumer protection. [read post]
