Consumer Law

ABA Antitrust Section's Consumer Protection Conference

By Jeff Sovern

The ABA's Section on Antitrust Law has scheduled its Consumer Protection Conference for June 18-19 in Washington,D.C.  Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The conference will open with remarks by David Vladeck, in his first public appearance as the Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Other panelists and speakers will include former FTC Chairmen Robert Pitofsky and Timothy Muris and nearly every Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection dating back to the mid-1980s. Officials in charge of consumer protection for the Attorneys General of Florida, North Carolina and New Jersey will address states' issues. Leading academics, in-house counsel, and representatives from the National Advertising Review Counsel, National Advertising Division, and U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Selby Ellis, III, among others, also will speak on current hot topics and the Honorable Henry Waxman, Chairman, House Committee on Energy & Commerce, has been invited to present a luncheon address on the Obama administration's consumer protection agenda.

More information can be found here.

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).