Consumer Credit in America: Past, Present, and Future

Authors

Pamela Foohey
Jim Hawkins
Creola Johnson
Nathalie Martin, University of New Mexico - School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

We began organizing this symposium at the start of 2016 with the recognition that consumer credit and financial services were in a state of flux prompted in significant part by the Great Recession. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act brought with it the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB’s creation marked the most significant moment in modern American consumer law. Consumers gained an advocate charged with protecting them through researching, monitoring, and regulating the providers of consumer financial products and services, enforcing federal consumer financial protection laws, and, as importantly, empowering consumers.

Publication Title

Law and Contemporary Problems

Volume

80

Issue

3

First Page

1

Last Page

6

Recommended Citation

Pamela Foohey, Jim Hawkins, Creola Johnson & Nathalie Martin, Consumer Credit in America: Past, Present, and Future, 80 Law and Contemporary Problems 1 (2017).
Available at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/805

Comments

Introduction to Issue and Symposium