BOOKS
Consumer Law: Cases And Materials (with John A.
Spanogle, Ralph J. Rohner, Dee Pridgen, & Christopher Peterson)
(4th ed. 2013 Thomson/West) (forthcoming).
Selected Consumer Statutes (with John A.
Spanogle, Ralph J. Rohner & Dee Pridgen) (2011
Thomson/West)
Selected Consumer Statutes (with John A. Spanogle, Ralph J.
Rohner & Dee Pridgen) ( 2009
Thomson/West).
Consumer Law: Cases And Materials (with John A.
Spanogle, Ralph J. Rohner & Dee Pridgen) (3d ed. 2007
Thomson/West).
Selected Consumer Statutes (with John A.
Spanogle, Ralph J. Rohner & Dee Pridgen) (2007
Thomson/West)
OTHER SCHOLARLY
PUBLICATIONS
Law
Student Laptop Use During Class for Non-Class Purposes: Temptation
v. Incentives, University of Louisville Law Review
(Forthcoming Fall 2013).
Encyclopedia entries on Cooling-off Periods and the
Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act in Encyclopedia of Consumer Protection
and Safety (ABC-CLIO)
Preventing
Future Economic Crises Through Consumer Protection Law or How the
Truth in Lending Act Failed the Subprime Borrowers,
71 Ohio State Law Journal 761 (2010), reprinted in the
Practising Law Institute's 16th Annual Consumer Financial Services
Institute Course Handbook (2011). Winner, American Council on
Consumer Interests 2010 Applied Consumer Economics Award.
The
Content of Consumer Law Classes II, 14 Journal of Consumer
and Commercial Law No. 1 at 16 (2010)
The
Coase Theorem and the Power to Increase Transaction
Costs, 40 McGeorge Law Review
935 (2009)
The
Content of Consumer Law Classes,12 Journal of Consumer and
Commercial Law, 48 (2008)
Towards
a New Theory of Consumer Protection: The Problem of Inflated
Transaction Costs , 47 William & Mary Law Review 1635-1709
(2006)
Stopping Identity Theft,38 Journal of Consumer Affairs
233-243 (2004)
The
Jewel of Their Souls: Preventing Identity Theft Through Loss
Allocation Rules ,64 University of Pittsburgh Law Review
343-406 (2003)
Protecting
Privacy with Deceptive Trade Practices Legislation , 69
Fordham Law Review 1305-1357 (2001 )
Helping Consumers Protect Their Personal Information, 12
Advancing the Consumer In terest (American Council on Consumer
Interests) No. 2 at 23-30 (2000). Winner, Russell A.
Dixon Prize.
Opting In, Opting Out, or No Options at All: The Fight for
Control of Personal Information ,74 Washington Law Review
1033-1118 (1999)
Implied Warranties of Quality in the Sale of New Homes in
Encyclopedia of Housing 307-09 (1998 )
Good Will Adjustment Games: An Economic and Legal Analysis
of Secret Warranty Regulation, 60 Missouri Law Review
323-414 (1995 )
Toward the Regulation of Secret Warranties, 7 Advancing the
Consumer Interest (American Council on Consumer Interests )
No. 2 at 13-19 (1995)
Creating a Private Cause of Action under the New York Fair
Debt Collection PracticesAct, 50 Record 345 (1995)
(Principal Author of Committee Report)
Toward a Theory of Warranties in Sales of New Homes: Housing
the Implied Warranty Advocates, Law and Economics Mavens, and
Consumer Psychologists Under One Roof ,1993 Wisconsin Law
Review 13-103
Private Actions under Deceptive Trade Practices Acts:
Reconsidering the FTC Act as Rule Model, 52 Ohio State Law
Journal 437-467 (1991)
Contributed to Annual Surveys of Commercial Law by supplying
comments on recent cases in 45 Business Lawyer 2341 (1990), 44
Business Lawyer 1515 (1989), 43 Business Lawyer 1305 (1988), 42
Business Lawyer 1269 (1987 )
Paradigm and Paradox in New York Consumer Credit Law: After
Holder in Due Course,6 Annual Review of Banking Law 119-180
(1987)
Report of the Discovery Oversight Committee of the United
States District Court for the Eastern District of New York ,
reprinted in 2 Garfinkel, Current Problems in Federal Civil
Practice 495-636 (1986) (with others)
Book Review of Lord’s Justice by Sheldon Engelmayer and
Robert Wagman (1985), 35 DePaul Law Review 763-771
(1986 )
Reconsidering Federal Civil Rule 9(b): Do We Need
Particularized Pleading Requirements in Fraud Cases? 104
Federal Rules Decisions 143-180 (1985)
Enjoining Payment on a Letter of Credit in Bankruptcy: A
Tempest in a Twistcap,38 Business Lawyer 21-33 (1982) (with
Helen Davis Chaitman)
Allied Structural Steel v. Spannaus: Added Obligations, the
Contract Clause, and Due Process,16 Columbia Journal of Law
and Social Problems 119-128 (1980)
OP-EDS AND OTHER MEDIA
APPEARANCES
Business Forum: Make sure consumers use protection
rules,Pittsburgh Post
Gazette, November 17, 2012
Consumer Protection is a Partisan Issue,the American Banker,
October 24, 2012
Thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/presidential-campaign/260985-romney-will-put-business-before-consumers,The Hill, October 9, 2012
Help for the Perplexed Home Buyer, New York Times, July 18, 2012
Holding All
the Cards, Commonweal, July 11, 2012
Business Forum: Subprime borrowers need more
protection, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 12, 2012
Don't Let Banking Industry Capture the CFPB, American
Banker, October 12, 2011
Fair
shake for Obama consumer protection nominee, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, August 13, 2011
Laptops in class:
How distracting are they? Christian Science Monitor, June
6, 2011 reprinted in Yahoonews.com and the Alaska Dispatch
Don’t
defund Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, March 12, 2011
What next? The Hill’s Congress Blog, October 21,
2010
Simple is better in consumer protection talks, The Hill
(print edition), June 16, 2010
Why
should car dealers be exempt? Politico, June
22, 2010
Warren would protect consumers, not the banks, The Hill
Congress Blog, July 28, 2010
Consumer
bureau is just the first step, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July
17, 2010
Let States Set Consumer Protections, on CNN.com, May 18,
2010
Take Consumer Watchdog off the Fed's Leash: Sen. Chris Dodd's bill
Will Weaken a Critical New Agency, New York Daily News, March
25, 2010
The Importance of CFPA Independence, The Hill (online
only), March 15, 2010
Adjustable
Mortgage a Pig in a Poke, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 24,
2010
Private
Sector Commentary: New Credit Card Law Has Teeth, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, June 30, 2009
U.S.
Needs Agency to Watch Consumer Credit, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
March 18, 2008
Borrowers Must Understand Their Obligations, American
Banker, May 13, 2009
"Truth
In Lending" Needs to be Updated, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, December 16, 2008
Consumer
Lists Are Not So Innocent If You Can't Opt Out, Christian
Science Monitor, July 20, 2007
Hour-long interview on the University of California—Irvine’s
radio show “Privacy
Policy,” July 26, 2006
The Missing Branch, The New York Times, July 25, 1999, § 14,
reprinted in Chicken Soup for the Single Parent’s Soul
(2005)
Letters published in the New York Times on March 9,
2013, November 13, 2012, August 25, 2012, August 15, 2012, July 8,
2012, June 2, 2012, May 21, 2012, December 31, 2011, August
31, 2011, March 30, 2011, February 13, 2010, August 27, 2009, May
11, 2009, February 2, 2009, March 29, 2007, December 18, 2006, June
1, 2006, June 23, 2005, October 31, 2004, April 17, 2003, October
12, 2002, June 25, 2002, December 20, 2001, October 2, 2001, March
27, 2001, July 4, 2000, April 24, 2000, October 26, 1999, July 5,
1999, April 20, 1999, February 28, 1999, June 17, 1998, January 4,
1998, July 17, 1997, November 20, 1996, and November 16,
1994.
Quoted by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, U.S News
& World Reports, Philadelphia, Daily News, Newsday, Washington
Post, ABA EJournal, Newsday, CBS News, and the
Associated Press
INTERNET
PUBLICATIONS
Co-coordinator, Consumer Law and Policy
Blog
Co-editor, LSN Consumer Law Abstracts, available
at www.ssrn.com
Uncontrolled Lending to Consumers Spawned the Financial Crisis
(with Professor Norman I. Silber of Hofstra), Baseline Scenario
Blog, March 7, 2010
News Flash: Lenders Prefer Fragmented Regulation of the Consumer
Financial Marketplace (with Professor Norman I. Silber of
Hofstra Law School), Huffington Post, November 2 , 2009
Could a Consumer Financial Protection Agency Have Prevented the
Economic Crisis, on FinReg21
Restoring State Law, on New Deal 2.0 Blog, available at http://www.newdeal20.org.
A Tale of Two Banksters, on New Deal 2.0 Blog, available
at http://www.newdeal20.org.
Advice to Newly Widowed Fathers of Young Children, available
on the web site of Responsible Single Fathers at
http://www.singlefather.org/carticles/newlywidowed080501.htm
and reprinted on the web sites of parentsworld.com and
singleparents.about.com.
SELECTED SPEAKING
ENGAGEMENTS
Disclosure in Consumer Credit, University of Houston Law Center
Conference on Teaching Consumer Law (2012)
Practising Law Institute’s 16th Annual Consumer Financial
Services Institute (February – March 2011)
The Consumer Financial Protection Agency/Bureau, University of
Houston Law Center Conference on Teaching Consumer Law (2010)
Preventing Future Economic Crises through Consumer
Protection Law,Annual Conference of the American Council on
Consumer Interests (ACCI), held in partnership with the Federal
Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2010)
Why the Truth in Lending Act Disclosures Prescribed by the Fed
Failed to Prevent the Subprime Crisis, Association of American Law
Schools’ Annual Meeting (2010)
Program on Consumer Debt, Summer Judicial Seminars for New York
State Judges (July-August 2009)
Second Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference presented by
George Washington University and University of California at
Berkeley Law Schools at Berkeley ( 2009)
New York City Consumer Debt Working Conference presented by the
Feerick Center for Social Justice and the New York County
Lawyers Association Justice Center at Fordham University School of
Law (2008)
First Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference presented by George
Washington University and University of California at Berkeley Law
Schools at GWU (2008)
Teaching Consumer Law: The Who, What, Where, Why, When, and How
presented by the Center for Consumer Law at the University of
Houston Law Center (2008)
Consumer Rights Litigation Conferencepresented by
the National Consumer Law Center (2007)
Teaching Consumer Law: The Past, Present and Future of Consumer
Law presented by the Center for Consumer Law at the University
of Houston Law Center (2006)
Panel on Privacy at the Annual Conference presented by the
Association of American Law Schools (2001)