« Uber Helps Me Revise My Contracts Syllabus | Main | Police Misconduct in Bankrupt Cities »

John Oliver and Consumer Law YouTube Videos

posted by Dalié Jiménez

I'm trying something new this year. My consumer bankruptcy policy seminar students will read many great articles by many wonderful academics on this blog, as well as others, but this year, their "reading" will also include a great deal of YouTube.

90% of the videos are John Oliver segments from his excellent show on HBO, Last Week Tonight. They cover particular "products" (student loans, credit reports, debt buying, payday loans, auto loans, retirement plans and financial advisors) and middle class issues (minimum wage, wage gap, wealth gap, paid family leave).

I thought Credit Slips readers might enjoy seeing them all in one place. Here they are in no particular order. Let me know if I've missed any!

August 22, 2016 at 10:17 AM in Books and Movies about Debt, Consumer Contracts, Consumer Finance, Credit & Debit Cards, Credit Reporting, Debt Collection, Debt Trading, Medical Debt, Payday & Title Lending, Student Loans, Usury

Comments

I also like to use some podcasts, such as this one on debt collection (http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/08/354591198/episode-574-the-buffalo-talk-off)

Posted by: Matthew Bruckner | August 22, 2016 at 11:45 AM

I referenced some of these segments, along with showing screenshots on slides, when discussing "non-bankruptcy collection law" in bankruptcy class last week. For those who use the Warren, Westbrook, Porter, & Pottow casebook, one part of the recent auto loan segment (around minute 5) is a perfect introduction to the car repossession problem in assignment 2.

Posted by: Pamela Foohey | August 22, 2016 at 07:45 PM

The comments to this entry are closed.

Contributors

Current Guests

Follow Us On Twitter

Like Us on Facebook

  • Like Us on Facebook

    By "Liking" us on Facebook, you will receive excerpts of our posts in your Facebook news feed. (If you change your mind, you can undo it later.) Note that this is different than "Liking" our Facebook page, although a "Like" in either place will get you Credit Slips post on your Facebook news feed.

Categories

Archives

Bankr-L

  • As a public service, the University of Illinois College of Law operates Bankr-L, an e-mail list on which bankruptcy professionals can exchange information. Bankr-L is administered by one of the Credit Slips bloggers, Professor Robert M. Lawless of the University of Illinois. Although Bankr-L is a free service, membership is limited only to persons with a professional connection to the bankruptcy field (e.g., lawyer, accountant, academic, judge). To request a subscription on Bankr-L, click here to visit the page for the list and then click on the link for "Subscribe." After completing the information there, please also send an e-mail to Professor Lawless ([email protected]) with a short description of your professional connection to bankruptcy. A link to a URL with a professional bio or other identifying information would be great.

OTHER STUFF