Synopsis
An ideal casebook for students in consumer transactions courses. It contains extensive and systematic coverage of the federal and state statutes that govern such consumer transactions as automobile sales and finance, home mortgages, predatory lending, and others. The text makes frequent use of problems as a teaching device.
Highlights of the Fifth Edition:
• Reorganization and expansion of the chapter on the Fair Credit Reporting Act, reflecting recent amendments imposing obligations on creditors
• Expanded treatment of predatory loans
• New material on mortgage brokers and on securitization of credit contracts
• Expansion of material on mandatory arbitration clauses, odometer regulation, and telemarketing
• Additional material on foreign law and perspectives
• New problems throughout the book, exploring recent judicial developments
• Four new cases
• To maintain the size of the casebook, judicious deletion of selected materials (five cases and parts of two others)
Booknews
Designed for use in a two-, three-, or four-hour course or seminar on the law of consumer transactions, Greenfield (law, Washington U.) organizes an array of case materials by type of transaction, from problems in the formation of consumer transactions to the substance of the deal, concluding with remedies. Each group of cases includes an introduction. Material covered includes the law of contracts, the law of torts, material on agency, administrative law, civil procedure, constitutional law, insurance, remedies, and statutory analysis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)