Consumer Law

New Consumer Law Symposium from Competition Policy International

By Christopher Peterson

by Chris Peterson

Competition Policy International, a peer reviewed antitrust journal, has just come out with a new symposium on consumer protection. Among other highlights, you might check out Emory Law Professor Paul Rubin's argument that government should ignore advertising claims that are deceptive or misleading. Here are the articles with links to abstracts for each:

Consumer Protection Policies, Economics, and Interactions with Competition Policy
by Paul Pautler (Federal Trade Commission)
Interactions between Compeition and Consumer Policy
by Mark Armstrong (University College London)
Consumer Protection and Behavioral Economics: To BE or Not to BE?
by Howard Beales (George Washington University)
Regulation of Information and Advertising
by Paul Rubin (Emory University)
Unfair Commercial Practices and Misleading and Comparative Advertising: An Analysis of the Harmonization of EU Legislation in View of the Italian Implementation of the Rules
by Claudio Tesauro (Bonelli Erede Pappalardo) & Francesco Russo (Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics)

Thanks to new University of Florida law professor Danny Sokol for the heads up.

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