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Consumer Finance: Markets and Regulation, Second Edition

Authors
  • Adam J. Levitin
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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Table of contents
Preface

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Consumer Finance:Markets and Regulation is the first law school text to focus on consumer financial services markets and their regulation.Structured around clear expository text and realistic problem sets, the book provides comprehensive coverage of the regulation of consumer credit, payments, and financial data markets by federal, state, and private law, including detailed coverage of the authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a powerful new federal regulatory agency.The book also acquaints students with the full range of consumer financial products, how they operate, the risks and policy issues they raise, and their regulation.In so doing, the book provides an applied look at how regulatory agencies work, offering students a practical look at how statutes and regulations interact and how regulatory agencies enforce them.

 

New to the Second Edition:

  • Coverage of new Regulation F, implementing the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
  • Coverage of buy-now-pay-later
  • Coverage of retail installment sales contracts and time-price doctrine
  • Coverage of rent-to-own contracts
  • Expanded coverage of rent-a-bank arrangements
  • Expanded coverage of anti-money laundering regulations
Professors and students will benefit from:
  • Detailed coverage of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a new federal regulatory agency with broad authority over consumer credit, payment, deposit, and financial data markets.&
  • Comprehensive treatment of consumer credit regulation, including mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, student loans, and small dollar loans, as well as credit disclosures, usury, and fair lending regulation.
  • State-of-the-art coverage of consumer payment systems, with detailed coverage of electronic payment systems (credit cards, debit cards, ACH) and mobile wallets.
  • Coverage of topics not found elsewhere in law school curriculum, including anti-money laundering regulations, behavioral economics, fair lending laws, and consumer financial data privacy and data security.
  • Free companion statutory supplement (available on website).

 

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About the authors
Adam J. Levitin

Adam Levitin is Agnes N. Williams Research Professor and Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law. Professor Levitin specializes in bankruptcy, commercial law, and financial regulation. His research focuses on consumer and housing finance, payments, and debt restructuring. Professor Levitin currently serves on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Consumer Advisory Board, and he has previously served as the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, as the Robert Zinman Scholar in Residence at the American Bankruptcy Institute, and as Special Counsel to the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Before joining the Georgetown faculty, Professor Levitin practiced in the Business Finance & Restructuring Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP and served as law clerk to the Honorable Jane R. Roth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Levitin holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.Phil and an A.M. from Columbia University, and an A.B. from Harvard College. His scholarship has won several awards, including the American Law Institute’s Young Scholar’s Medal.

Product Information
Edition
Second Edition
Publication date
2022-09-14
Copyright Year
2022
Pages
854
Connected eBook + Hardcover
9781543856170
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798886141788
Subject
Family Law, Elective
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