2017, Consumer Law

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

Myriam Gilles, Cardozo Law School

Deepak Gupta, Gupta Wessler

February 21      Behavioral Economics and Consumer Law

Oren Bar-Gill, Harvard Law School

Alan Schwartz, Yale Law School

February 28      Consumer Transactions in the Information Society

Margaret Jane Radin, University of Michigan School of Law

Rory Van Loo, Boston University Law School 

March 7      Performance-Based Consumer Law

Lauren Willis, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

March 21      Housing Law

Richard Epstein, NYU Law School

Lee Fennell, University of Chicago Law School

April 4      Consumer Finance, Race, and Contract Design

Bertram Lomfeld, Free University of Berlin

Fred Wherry, Yale University, Department of Sociology

April 11      Debt, Labor, and Regulatory Agency Design

Rachel Barkow, NYU School of Law

Noah Zatz, UCLA Law School

April 18      Mandatory Labeling

Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School