Consumer Protection

This seminar provides a survey of topics in consumer protection law. The course takes a historical approach examining the development of consumer protection law in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with a focus on the demands of consumer movements. Modern topics we may cover include student debt, auto debt, housing debt, fringe finance, consumer boycotts and strikes, and horizons for change and the abolition of debt. This class uses component grading and there is no final exam. Grades will likely be based on class participation, a final paper, and several interim assignments. Students may take this class to satisfy the Additional Upper-Class Writing Requirement. Students may also elect to take this class pass/fail.