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Consumer Protection Course Coverage Survey

By Jeff Sovern

by Jeff Sovern

Two years ago, I surveyed attendees at Richard Alderman's University of Houston Teaching Consumer Law Conference about their course coverage; the results are here.  I wanted to find out if the answers have changed, and also ask some new questions about what professors would like to cover in the future, and so I surveyed the attendees at this year's edition of the conference. If you did not attend and would like to complete the survey, it appears after the jump.  This is an opportunity to have an impact on the content of consumer law casebooks, so I hope readers of this blog who teach consumer law and have not already filled it out will do so. You can email me your form at sovernjatstjohnsdotedu, or snail mail it to me at St. John's University School of Law, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, NY 11439. Thanks!

CONSUMER PROTECTION 2010 COURSE COVERAGE QUESTIONNAIRE

 

If you have taught Consumer Protection within the last five years or plan to teach it in the near future and know what you plan to cover, please answer this survey for the ?Hot Topics? panel.

 

I teach __ a survey course  ___ seminar  ___ clinic  ___ other (specify: ____________) (if you teach more than one of these, please fill out a separate survey form for each course).

 

My course meets for ___ hours per week.

 

I spend at least twenty minutes of class time on the following topics (please check all that apply and add any additional topics in the space at the bottom):

 

Arbitration clauses (Mandatory) __                                         Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act

Bait and switch ___                                                                             (HOEPA) ___                                                 

Bankruptcy ___                                                                       Lemon Laws ___

Class actions ___                                                                     Magnuson-Moss ___

Common law fraud ___                                                           National Highway and Traffic Safety

Constitutionality of regulating commercial speech ___                                    Administration ___

Consumer Financial Protection Agency (or Bureau) ___         Odometer Act ___

Consumer Leasing Act ___                                                      Online privacy ___

Consumer Product Safety Commission ___                             Payday lending ___

Consumer warranty issues ___                                                            Payment & E-Payment Systems ___

Cooling off period rules and door to door sales ___                Privacy Torts ___

Credit CARD Act ___                                                              Preemption of state predatory lending statutes ___

Credit insurance ___                                                                Referral sales and pyramid schemes ___

Data security ___                                                                     Rent to Own ___

Electronic Funds Transfers Act ___                                         Shrinkwrap agreements & other contract formation

Enforcement ___                                                                                 issues___

Equal Credit Opportunity Act ___                                           Security Interests ___

ESIGN ___                                                                              Spam ___

Fair Credit Billing Act ___                                                       Student loans ___

Fair Credit Reporting Act ___                                                  State predatory lending statutes ___

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act                                           Subprime lending ___

Foreclosure issues ___                                                             Telemarketing ___

Foreclosure rescue scams ___                                                 Truth in Lending Act ___

FTC Act ___                                                                            Unauthorized credit/debit transactions ___

Comparative consumer law ___                                              UDAP statutes ___

Gramm-Leach-Bliley privacy issues ___                                 Unconscionability ___

Holder in due course ___                                                        Usury ___

                                                                                               

 

 

The following is a list of topics that are not covered in all the consumer law casebooks.  If you do not already cover the topic (and, if it is not already in the teaching materials you use, assuming it were to be added), which of the following would you add to your course (defined as spending at least twenty minutes of class time to the subject)?

 

 

Bankruptcy ___

Consumer Financial Protection Agency (or Bureau) ___

Consumer Product Safety Commission ___

Credit CARD Act ___

E-Payment Systems

Foreclosure issues ___

Foreclosure rescue scams ___

Comparative consumer law ___

International Transactions (i.e., transactions involving more than one country)

National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration ___

Odometer Act ___

Student loans ___

Subprime lending ___

 

What other topics would you add and why?

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you stated that you would add one or more additional topics to your class, what topics that you already cover would you cut or eliminate entirely and why? 

 

 

 

How do you choose which topics to cover or omit?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any other comments on coverage?

 

 

 

 

 

 

For how many years have you taught consumer law?

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on June 01, 2010 (boomark / email).