Sam Levine

Just a note from your friendly neighborhood Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice that John Oliver this week features an episode on Subscriptions that is positively riddled with friends of the Center (FOCs).

The piece begins with a picture of the seminal article on subscription traps by FOCs Professors Kaitlin Caruso and Prentiss Cox.

It shouts out a subscription rule promulgated by the Biden-era FTC, which the Center supported with 1) a comment arguing for the rule’s adoption; 2) an amicus brief...

Sam Levine, Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice and former Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, submitted a comment on Monday (December 1) opposing the U.S. Department of Transportation’s proposed rule that would add new procedural hurdles to unfair and deceptive practices rulemaking.

Levine argued that...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In testimony before the D.C. Council’s Committee on Public Works and Operations today, two distinguished consumer policy professionals called on lawmakers to pass critical reforms to the District’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA).

Samuel Levine, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice and former Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, emphasized the urgent need to modernize D.C.’s consumer...

Sam Levine joined Krys Boyd on KERA's Think program to talk about the many problems with customer loyalty programs. You can listen to a recording of the broadcast here.

Sam's paper (co-authored by Stephanie T. Nguyen) “The Loyalty Trap: How Loyalty Programs Hook Us with Deals, Hack our Brains, and Hike Our Prices” was...