The Seminar meets Tuesdays from 12:10 to 2:00 in SLB 121. Lunch is served from noon.
The Spring 2017 Seminar in Private Law will devote itself to consumer law. The Seminar will take up various aspects of consumer law, including consumer finance, bankruptcy, dispute regulation, behavioral regulation of consumer transactions, regulatory agency design, and housing.
January 31 The Rise of Mandatory Arbitration and the Demise of Class Actions
Professor Schwartz's texts will be available here. Professor Bar-Gill's text is available to Yale Law School community members here and by request to sadie.blanchard@yale.edu.
February 28 Consumer Transactions in the Information Society
Margaret Jane Radin, University of Michigan School of Law
Rory Van Loo, Boston University Law School
Professor Van Loo's papers are available here and here. We will read pages 20 to 22 and 39 to 41 of "Rise of the Digital Regulator" and pages 548 to 584 of "The Corporation as Courthouse" (through Part II).
Readings are available here and by request to sadie.blanchard@yale.edu. We will focus on Part I of Prof. Epstein's Chapter 3. His article "Rent Control and the Theory of Efficient Regulation" is supplemental reading.
April 4 Consumer Finance, Race, and Contract Design
Bertram Lomfeld, Free University of Berlin
Fred Wherry, Yale University, Department of Sociology
Readings will be available to Yale Law School community members here and by request to sadie.blanchard@yale.edu.
April 11 Debt, Labor, and Regulatory Agency Design
Rachel Barkow, NYU School of Law
Noah Zatz, UCLA Law School
Prof. Zatz's paper is available to Yale Law School communtiy members here and by request to sadie.blanchard@yale.edu. Prof. Barkow's paper is available here.
