St. John's University Law Faculty Blog

The National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Endowment for Education has awarded Professor Jeff Sovern, along with St. John’s University Psychology Associate Professor Kate Walton, a grant to study consumer awareness of debt collection validation notices. The federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act obliges certain debt collectors to notify consumers of their right to seek verification of debts. The grant will enable Professors Sovern and Walton to survey consumers to determine how well consumers understand various versions of the validation notice and how effective the notices are in communicating to consumers their rights. The two professors will collaborate on a law review article reporting the research.

Posted on September 14, 2015 at 12:58 pm in Conferences, Colloquia and Symposia   |  RSS feed |   Reply   |   Trackback URL