Consumer Protection Law

1 unit

Enrollment Limit: 30 Drop Deadline: Fri. Aug. 31, 2018, 9:00pm. This course is available to online immersion students only. This course meets Friday, Sept. 21 through Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. This course covers the development of consumer protection laws in the United States that began under the common law of tort and contract in the nineteenth century and has since developed into a complicated patchwork of statutes enforced by federal and state regulatory authorities. We will examine the evolution of consumer protection law in the United States and focus on the practical application and enforcement of various federal consumer protection laws by the two main federal enforcement agencies, the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This course will provide students with an understanding of the important concepts of unfair or deceptive trade practices, consumer credit law, and privacy issues from multiple viewpoints, including businesses regulated by consumer protection laws and the regulatory authorities. This course is designed as a mixture of lecture and discussion formats in which students will learn to apply the rules, laws, concepts, and principles of consumer protection laws to various real-life fact patterns involving the design and marketing of a regulated product or service.