Volume 58, Issue 1

The goal of this paper is to describe Jean Braucher’s (hereinafter Jean’s) views about contract law and the behavior to which it purports to apply, as revealed by her published…

Lack of compliance with consumer protection law has been a crucial problem in the field for as long as such law has existed. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) has…

In this Article, I attempt to build an empathy bridge between readers and a group of undocumented immigrants living in the American southwest, applying original qualitative research to scarcity theory.…

People who are financially strapped make astonishingly bad financial decisions. Politicians and mainstream economic theorists assume that most people, including bankruptcy debtors, use a rational financial decision-making process that includes…

Jean Braucher was a leading scholar of contract and consumer bankruptcy law. Although she did not devote substantial energy to corporate bankruptcy, an important but comparatively under-cited 1994 paper, Bankruptcy…

In 2005, the Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions (“AFFECT”) coalition issued a list of 12 principles it hoped would contribute to a new consensus about what constitutes fairness in…

Professor Jean Braucher greatly contributed to the exploration of consumer and contract law by questioning how the law operates in the real world and highlighting the importance of “law in…