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13 Jul 2012, 8:41 am
by Jeff Sovern In the course of researching cooling-off periods for my article Written Notice of Cooling-Off Periods: A Forty-Year Natural Experiment in Illusory Consumer Protection and the Relative Effectiveness of Oral and Written Disclosure, I came across some over-heated comments by opponents of the rules. [read post]
15 Aug 2009, 11:52 am
by Jeff Sovern Suppose you're a judge presiding over cases in which debt buyers--who have bought credit card debt from credit card companies or, often, other debt buyers--sue the credit card holders for the amounts due on the credit card. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 10:58 am
by Jeff Sovern Last August 11, I posted this to the blog: At the risk of being a nag, I'm wondering when the President will nominate the new director of the CFPB. [read post]
1 Mar 2009, 6:40 pm
by Jeff Sovern In a 1973 article, William Whitford raised the possibility that some consumer protection legislation is enacted not to protect consumers, but to create the illusion of that protection. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 9:02 am
Jeff Sovern of St. [read post]
21 Jul 2013, 7:58 am
But as Jeff Sovern and Ira Rheingold note, credit bureaus are heavily dependent on lenders for both revenue and information. [read post]
15 May 2009, 12:50 pm
by Jeff Sovern Recently I was asked to speak briefly at an upcoming wedding but was admonished not to mention consumer law. [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 12:20 pm
by Jeff Sovern Javelin's latest identity fraud survey, released yesterday, contains, at best, mixed news on the progress made in preventing and detecting identity fraud. [read post]
20 Oct 2008, 10:04 am
Jeff Sovern with a great idea for Consumer Reports to challenge the US News monopoly on law school (and other school?) [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 1:01 pm
by Jeff Sovern During last night's debate, Representative Paul seemed to attribute the foreclosure crisis partly to the Community Reinvestment Act when he said: Well, the government . . . [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 6:40 pm
by Jeff Sovern As we've noted in the past, Senator Dodd's bill subjects the proposed consumer financial protection bureau to a veto by a two-thirds vote of a Financial Stability Oversight Council. [read post]
14 May 2012, 12:42 pm
by Jeff Sovern Brian posted a link over the weekend to the excellent Times article on student loans. [read post]
10 May 2012, 3:10 pm
by Jeff Sovern It seems as if we have constant reminders that consumer disclosures work poorly. [read post]
31 Dec 2011, 5:23 pm
by Jeff Sovern On Tuesday, the Times printed an editorial, Clearer Bank Account Terms at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/opinion/clearer-checking-account-terms.html. [read post]
Take consumer watchdog off the Fed's leash: Sen. Chris Dodd's bill will weaken a critical new agency
25 Mar 2010, 6:40 am
by Jeff Sovern I have an op-ed in today's New York Daily News on the placement of the consumer financial protection bureau within the Fed. [read post]
20 Feb 2024, 4:00 am
Percival (Maryland), Jeff Sovern (Maryland; Google Scholar), Maureen Sweeney (Maryland), Donald B. [read post]
13 Jan 2010, 9:05 am
by Jeff Sovern Thomson/West should shortly make available via email the 2010 update to our consumer law casebook. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 12:05 pm
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Jeff Sovern (St. [read post]
6 Sep 2013, 1:01 pm
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]
5 Sep 2023, 7:38 am
Professor Jeff Sovern recently blogged about the FTC’s June 2023 revisions to its Endorsement Guide. [read post]
