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Law Student Laptop Use During Class for Non-Class Purposes: Temptation v. Incentives

51 University of Louisville Law Review 483 (2013), St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-004

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 17 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2013

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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'Whimsy Little Contracts' with Unexpected Consequences: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Understanding of Arbitration Agreements

75 Maryland Law Review 1 (2015), St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-0009

Number of pages: 134 Posted: 01 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2016

Jeff Sovern, Elayne E. Greenberg, Paul F. Kirgis and Yuxiang Liu

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Towards a New Model of Consumer Protection: The Problem of Inflated Transaction Costs

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 47, March 2006, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-002

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 13 Jan 2005

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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Preventing Future Economic Crises Through Consumer Protection Law or How the Truth in Lending Act Failed the Subprime Borrowers

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 71, p. 761, 2010, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-0189

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 06 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2011

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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Free-Market Failure: The Wells Fargo Arbitration Clause Example

70 Rutgers U.L. Rev. 417 (2018), St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-0004

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 May 2017 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2018

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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Rankings: A Dramatization of the Incentives Created by Ranking Law Schools

St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-0097

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 26 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 25 May 2008

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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Written Notice of Cooling-Off Periods: A Forty-Year Natural Experiment in Illusory Consumer Protection and the Relative Effectiveness of Oral and Written Disclosures

75 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 333 (2014)

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2016

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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The Content of Consumer Law Classes

Journal of Consumer and Commercial Law, Vol. 12, No. 1, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-0138

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 05 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2012

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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Are Validation Notices Valid? An Empirical Evaluation of Consumer Understanding of Debt Collection Validation Notices

Southern Methodist University Law Review, 2017, Forthcoming, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-0018

Number of pages: 108 Posted: 12 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2018

Jeff Sovern and Kate Walton

St. John's University - School of Law and St. John's University - Department of Psychology

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Can Cost-Benefit Analysis Help Consumer Protection Laws? Or at Least Benefit Analysis?

University of California-Irvine Law Review, Forthcoming, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-0011

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2015

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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The Coase Theorem and the Power to Increase Transaction Costs

St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-0160 , McGeorge Law Review, Vol. 40, p. 935, 2009

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 12 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2010

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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Protecting Privacy with Deceptive Trade Practices Legislation

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 69, p. 1305, 2001, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-0163

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 Jan 2009

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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The Content of Consumer Law Classes II

Journal of Consumer and Commercial Law, Forthcoming, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-191

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 14 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2012

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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The Jewel of Their Souls: Preventing Identity Theft Through Loss Allocation Rules

University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Vol. 64, p. 343, 2003

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 23 Feb 2009

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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Validation and Verification Vignettes: More Results from an Empirical Study of Consumer Understanding of Debt Collection Validation Notices

Rutgers Law Review, Vol. 71, Forthcoming 2018, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-0016

Number of pages: 98 Posted: 26 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2019

Jeff Sovern, Kate Walton and Nathan Frishberg

St. John's University - School of Law, St. John's University - Department of Psychology and St. John's University - Department of Psychology

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The Content of Consumer Law Classes III

Journal of Consumer & Commercial Law, Vol. 22, Forthcoming 2018, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-0014

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2018

Jeff Sovern

St. John's University - School of Law

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St. John's University - School of Law

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