- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- The Rule of Law in America
- An Exceptional Nation?
- Are Americans More Litigious?
- Lawyers as Spam
- Regulation and Litigation
- Does Product Liability Law Make Us Safer?
- The American Illness and Comparative Civil Procedure
- The Proportionality Principle and the Amount In Controversy
- The Allocation of Discovery Costs and the Foundations of Modern Procedure
- Does Increased Litigation Increase Justice in a Second-Best World?
- A Tamer Tort Law
- The Expansion of Modern U.S. Tort Law and Its Excesses
- Regulation, Taxation, and Litigation
- An English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law
- Text versus Context
- Exit and the American Illness
- The Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law
- How American Corporate and Securities Law Drives Business Offshore
- Corporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality
- The Legacy of Progressive Thought
- Overtaking
- The Rule of Law and China
- Reversing
- Contributors
- Index
The Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law
The Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law
- Chapter:
- (p.361) The Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law
- Source:
- The American Illness
- Author(s):
Joshua D. Wright
Eric Helland
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter discusses the rise of Consumer Protection Acts (CPAs) and the changes it brought to both state and federal regulatory regimes. It presents an empirical perspective on the new era of consumer protection and the differences between consumer protection under state and federal law.
Keywords: Consumer Protection Acts, regulatory regimes, consumer protection, state law, federal law
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- The Rule of Law in America
- An Exceptional Nation?
- Are Americans More Litigious?
- Lawyers as Spam
- Regulation and Litigation
- Does Product Liability Law Make Us Safer?
- The American Illness and Comparative Civil Procedure
- The Proportionality Principle and the Amount In Controversy
- The Allocation of Discovery Costs and the Foundations of Modern Procedure
- Does Increased Litigation Increase Justice in a Second-Best World?
- A Tamer Tort Law
- The Expansion of Modern U.S. Tort Law and Its Excesses
- Regulation, Taxation, and Litigation
- An English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law
- Text versus Context
- Exit and the American Illness
- The Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law
- How American Corporate and Securities Law Drives Business Offshore
- Corporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality
- The Legacy of Progressive Thought
- Overtaking
- The Rule of Law and China
- Reversing
- Contributors
- Index