ABA Consumer Protection Conference: Credit Slips out in Force

Angie Littwin and I will be speaking on a very timely panel about the need for a consumer financial product safety commission Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CoFiPro=Coffee Pro?) at the ABA's Section on Antitrust 's Consumer Protection Conference at Georgetown.

The conference features appearances by numerous current and former FTC and state officials--including a greeting by the incoming head of the Consumer Protection bureau, my GULC colleague David Vladeck--as well as prominent private practitioners. Sessions cover issues including internet issues (with special attention to the perhaps surprising scope of Section 230 of the CDA), privacy, the use of empirical evidence, and the different standards applied by different regulators, including the FTC, NAD, and courts applying the Lanham Act.

Just to play with acronyms for proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency: CoFiPro=Coffee Pro? or CoFinPro=Coffin Pro?

Comments

[Mike Dillon]

Oh boy... Professor Levitin, please pass along my apologies to incoming Director Vladeck. He may not like me too much in the coming months...

Any possibility of transcripts from this gathering being available?

I have to admit that I find it intriguing that O'Melvany & Myers is accumulating former FTC people like Debra Valentine and Timothy Muris. I can only hope that the notorious public/private "revolving door" of D.C. doesn't apply to the Federal Trade Commission.