Consumer Law Materials: Arbitration

Consumer Law (Spring 2009)

Supplemental Materials on Consumer Arbitration

Assigned reading:

Additional background material (optional):

Mercedes Homes, Inc. v. Colon, 966 So. 2d 10 (Fla. 5th Dist. App. 2007)
Ross v. Bank of America, N.A. (USA), 524 F.3d 217 (2d Cir. 2008)
The Arbitration Trap: How Credit Cards Companies Ensnare Consumers (Public Citizen, Sept. 2007)
Peter B. Rutledge, Arbitration - A Good Deal for Consumers: A Response to Public Citizen (U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, Apr. 2008)
Outcomes of Arbitration: An Empirical Study of Consumer Lending Cases (Ernst & Young, 2004)
Comments on Ernst & Young Arbitration Outcomes Report (Center for Responsible Lending, Feb. 24, 2005)
Consumers Blindsided by Arbitration Clauses in Credit Card Contracts, National Consumer Law Center Outlook (Spring 2005)
Mark E. Budnitz, The High Cost of Mandatory Consumer Arbitration, 67 L. & Contemp. Probs. 133 (2004)
Paul D. Carrington, Unconscionable Lawyers, 19 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 361 (2002)
Theodore Eisenberg et al., Arbitration's Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts, 41 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 871 (2008)
Eric J. Mogilnicki & Kirk D. Jensen, Arbitration and Unconscionability, 19 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 761 (2003)
Bibliography of Law Review Articles on Binding Mandatory Arbitration (Public Citizen)
added 4/17/09: Christopher R. Drahozal & Samantha Zyontz, An Empirical Study of AAA Consumer Arbitrations (Mar. 13, 2009)