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Associate Academic Dean Larry Cunningham was interviewed by the Agence France-
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Larry Cunningham
Presse, an international news agency, for an article about interest in American crime docudramas, such as “Serial” and “Making of a Murderer.” In the interview, Dean Cunningham is quoted about exonerations, innocence investigations by journalists, and the O.J. Simpson trial. The piece has been picked up by publications in Australia, Singapore, Bahrain, and others.
G. Ray Warner
Professor Ray Warner will be at the United Nations this week as a member of the International Insolvency Institute’s delegation to Working Group VI of UNCITRAL. The working group is developing an international model law of personal property secured transactions.
Jeff Sovern
Bloomberg BNA’s Banking Daily quoted Professor Jeff Sovern in an article, Financial Firms Watch, Wait on CFPB Move to Limit Arbitration. According to the article:
“I think they are very troublesome,” Jeffrey Sovern, a law professor at St. John’s University, in New York, said of the arbitration clauses. “Class action lawsuits are a mechanism to deter businesses from taking advantage of consumers in small amounts,” he told Bloomberg BNA, echoing a point made by Cordray in his speech.
A customer who is mistakenly charged $30 on his mobile phone bill is unlikely to file a claim in court or arbitration to get the money back, and such a case is too small to justify hiring an attorney, Sovern said. If that customer files a class action on behalf of a million customers hit with similar charges, that’s a $30 million lawsuit, and the dynamics have changed.
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