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Articles 1 - 18 of 18
Full-Text Articles in Consumer Protection Law
Opting Out Of Liability: The Forthcoming, Near-Total Demise Of The Modern Class Action, Myriam E. Gilles
Opting Out Of Liability: The Forthcoming, Near-Total Demise Of The Modern Class Action, Myriam E. Gilles
Articles
It is reasonable to expect that courts will demonstrate great solicitude for the recent innovation that I term "collective action waivers" - i.e., contractual provisions contained within arbitration agreements whereby consumers and others waive their rights to participate in any form of collective litigation or class arbitration. The history of mass tort class actions and the hegemonic expansion of pro-arbitration jurisprudence compel this conclusion. And, as the now-dominant economic model of contract law has moved the focus of courts from the value of consent to the value of efficiency, arbitration agreements found in all manner of shrink-wrap, scroll-text and bill-stuffer …
Practicing Under The New Bankruptcy Code: A Nuts & Bolts Workshop, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law
Practicing Under The New Bankruptcy Code: A Nuts & Bolts Workshop, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law
Continuing Legal Education Materials
Materials from Practicing Under the New Bankruptcy Code: A Nuts & Bolts Workshop (The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) held by UK/CLE in September 2005.
Information Security Breaches And The Threat To Consumers, Fred H. Cate
Information Security Breaches And The Threat To Consumers, Fred H. Cate
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Liability For Direct Advertising Of Drugs To Consumers: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come, Aaron Twerski
Liability For Direct Advertising Of Drugs To Consumers: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come, Aaron Twerski
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Genetic Information, Privacy And Insolvency, Edward J. Janger
Genetic Information, Privacy And Insolvency, Edward J. Janger
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Fictional Tale Of Unintended Consequences: A Response To Professor Wertheimer, Aaron Twerski, James A. Henderson Jr.
A Fictional Tale Of Unintended Consequences: A Response To Professor Wertheimer, Aaron Twerski, James A. Henderson Jr.
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Licensing And Discipline Of Fiscal Professionals In The State Of Florida: Attorneys, Certified Public Accountants, And Real Estate Professionals, Debra Curtis
Faculty Scholarship
The purpose of this article is to compare the regulation of several professions within the state of Florida. In Florida, attorneys are self-regulated through the Florida Bar. As a branch of the Supreme Court of Florida, The Florida Bar serves as the licensing agency of attorneys within the state. Two other professions--real estate professionals and certified public accountants--in which the public also places fiscal trust and responsibility, are regulated through a different agency, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. This article seeks to examine and explain the different methods of licensing and regulation between these professional groups and looks …
Civil Codes And Consumers, 51 Loy. L. Rev. 11 (2005), Jason Kilborn
Civil Codes And Consumers, 51 Loy. L. Rev. 11 (2005), Jason Kilborn
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Behavioral Economics, Overindebtedness & Comparative Consumer Bankruptcy: Searching For Causes And Evaluating Solutions, 22 Emory Bankr. Dev. J. 13 (2005), Jason Kilborn
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
‘Don’T File!’: Rehabilitating Unauthorized Practice Of Law-Based Policies In The Credit Counseling Industry, Lea Krivinskas Shepard
‘Don’T File!’: Rehabilitating Unauthorized Practice Of Law-Based Policies In The Credit Counseling Industry, Lea Krivinskas Shepard
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
In Search Of Economic Justice: Considering Competition And Consumer Protection Law, Spencer Weber Waller
In Search Of Economic Justice: Considering Competition And Consumer Protection Law, Spencer Weber Waller
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
Consumer Payment Products And Systems: The Need For Uniformity And The Risk Of Political Defeat, Mark E. Budnitz
Consumer Payment Products And Systems: The Need For Uniformity And The Risk Of Political Defeat, Mark E. Budnitz
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When Will We Have Cross-Border Licensing Of Copyright And Related Rights In Europe?, Lucie Guibault
When Will We Have Cross-Border Licensing Of Copyright And Related Rights In Europe?, Lucie Guibault
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
In Europe, much has been written recently about the collective management of copyright and related rights. April 2004 saw the publication of the European Commission’s Communication to the Council and the European Parliament on the Management of Copyright and Related Rights in the Internal Market. This communication confirms the Commission’s intention to adopt, in the not too distant future, a directive on the governance of the societies for collective management of copyright and related rights (collecting societies) in Europe. In addition to describing the current situation in the area of collective management of copyright and related rights in the European …
Punitive Damages Revisited: Taking The Rationale For Non-Recognition Of Foreign Judgments Too Far, Ronald A. Brand
Punitive Damages Revisited: Taking The Rationale For Non-Recognition Of Foreign Judgments Too Far, Ronald A. Brand
Articles
Punitive damages have been a controversial aspect of U.S. law; often criticized both at home and abroad. Neither U.S. law on punitive damages nor the foreign climate regarding their reception has remained static. This article notes the continuing legislative attack on punitive damages in the United States at both the state and federal level, and focuses on recent developments in case law and treaty negotiations concerning the reception of punitive damages abroad.
Choosing Among Antitrust Liability Standards Under Incomplete Information: Assessments Of And Aversions To The Risk Of Being Wrong, Barbara Ann White
Choosing Among Antitrust Liability Standards Under Incomplete Information: Assessments Of And Aversions To The Risk Of Being Wrong, Barbara Ann White
All Faculty Scholarship
This essay analyzes the three papers presented on a panel I organized as chair of the AALS Antitrust Section entitled Evolving Antitrust Treatment of Dominant Firms for the 2005 Annual Meetings. Steve Salop’s and Doug Melamed’s papers recommend standards for government intervention while David McGowan argues why the government should not.
I create a framework within which to understand the three papers’ relationship to each other, by building on McGowan’s characterization of courts’ antitrust decisions. Since antitrust decisions are based on inherently incomplete real world information, they are subject to “error costs”: Courts are at risk of “false positives” (finding …
Tila ‘Finance’ And ‘Other’ Charges In Open-End Credit: The Cost-Of Credit Principle Applied To Charges For Optional Products Or Services, Ralph J. Rohner, Thomas Durkin
Tila ‘Finance’ And ‘Other’ Charges In Open-End Credit: The Cost-Of Credit Principle Applied To Charges For Optional Products Or Services, Ralph J. Rohner, Thomas Durkin
Scholarly Articles
The thesis of this article is that a more workable approach to characterizing fees for optional products and services is possible by focusing on charges that represent payment for discrete products or services of value to the consumer, freely chosen by consumers as contract options which do not affect the amount of credit available to the consumer, the consumer's access to it, or the allocation of payment responsibility and credit risk in the transaction or plan. In other words, these fees are for separate-or separable-purchases, analogous to subsequent events in closed-end credit that require no new disclosure or adjustment in …
The Microfoundations Of Standard Form Contracts: Price Discrimination Vs. Behavioral Bias, Jonathan Klick
The Microfoundations Of Standard Form Contracts: Price Discrimination Vs. Behavioral Bias, Jonathan Klick
All Faculty Scholarship
Standard form contracts, or contracts of adhesion, appear to provide contradictory evidence for the operation of bargaining in the markets where they are common. Non-negotiated contract terms that seemingly benefit sellers to the detriment of buyers call into question the efficiency implications of the Coase Theorem, which forms the foundation of positive law and economics. Proponents of the behavioral school of law and economics have suggested that behavioral biases, observed in experimental contexts, provide the most plausible explanation for standard form contracts. However, price discrimination might provide a more parsimonious explanation for abusive terms in contracts. If there is heterogeneity …
Lending A Helping Hand?: A Guide To Kentucky’S New Predatory Lending Law, Kent H. Barnett
Lending A Helping Hand?: A Guide To Kentucky’S New Predatory Lending Law, Kent H. Barnett
Scholarly Works
The purpose of this note is to furnish the consumer advocate with an in-depth analysis of Kentucky's new predatory lending law by examining the basic structure of the statute, and its ambiguities, faults, and remedies. Practitioners will understand the impact the law may have on high-cost home loans, the potential traps that await their clients, and the provisions that require amending.
Part I discusses the applicability of the statute. Part II focuses on Kentucky's limitations that dovetail HOEPA requirements for high-cost home loans. Part III discusses provisions of the Kentucky law that require much more than, or in some cases …