The Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law invites papers for its inaugural Consumer Law Scholars Conference on February 21-22, 2019 at Berkeley Law. Abstracts are due October 5, 2018. For conference and paper details, please see the Call for Papers.
Potential topics may range across the full breadth of issues involving consumers in the marketplace, including, e.g.: student loan servicing and debt cancellation; online product endorsement; racial, ethnic and other disparities in treatment by lenders and by merchants; debt collection; public health disclosures; credit reporting; commercial speech and the First Amendment; the proposed Restatement of Consumer Contracts; the CFPB in theory and practice; issues of federalism, preemption, and sovereign immunity in small-dollar lending regulation; UDA(A)P and disclosure laws; consumer behavior; fintech; and the application of consumer law to abuses in the criminal justice system.
