Consumer Law

Table of Contents for Fall 2008 Journal of Consumer Affairs

By Jeff Sovern

Here is the table of contents for the Fall 2008 issue of the Journal of Consumer Affairs (Volume 42, Number 3).  It includes an article by Elizabeth Warren, as well as pieces on predatory lending, consumer privacy, food labeling and advertising.

Disentangling the Differences Between Abusive and Predatory Lending: Professionals' Perspectives
 Lucy M. Delgadillo, Luke V. Erickson and Kathleen W. Piercy

An Open Mind Wants More: Opinion Strength and the Desire for Genetically Modified Food Labeling Policy
 Sonja Radas, Mario F. Teisl and Brian Roe

Parental Influence and Teens? Attitude toward Online Privacy Protection
 Seounmi Youn

Neuromarketing and Consumer Free Will
 R. Mark Wilson, Jeannie Gaines and Ronald Paul Hill

Bits Briefs & Applications
Consumers? Understanding of Privacy Rules in the Marketplace
 Joseph Turow, Michael Hennessy and Amy Bleakley

Consumer Vulnerability and Credit Card Knowledge Among Developmentally Disabled Citizens
 Phylis M. Mansfield and Mary Beth Pinto

Picture-Text Incongruency in Print Advertisements Among Low- and High-Literacy Consumers
 Haeran Jae, Devon S. Delvecchio, and Deborah Cowles 

Product Safety Regulation as a Model for Financial Services Regulation
 Elizabeth Warren

Notes & Observations
Pet Peeves: Trademark Law and the Consumer Enjoyment of Brand Pet Parodies
 Ross D. Petty

The Often-Forgotten Non-Funeral Consumer Grief for the Grieving
 Elizabeth Taylor Quilliam

Cautions and Concerns in Experimental Research on the Consumer Interest
 Marla B. Royne

Editorial Postlude
Can You Really Say That?
 Herbert Jack Rotfeld

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on August 30, 2008 (boomark / email).