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Editor: David Reiss
Cornell Law School

February 11, 2026

Consumer Law Awardee, alongside Senator Warren

By David Reiss

David J. Reiss (right), clinical professor of law and research director of the Blassberg-Rice Center on Entrepreneurship Law at Cornell Tech and Kara Bruce (left), head of the AALS Section on Commercial and Consumer Law and the Graham Kenan Distinguished … Continue reading

November 5, 2025

VIDEO: Retrenchment and Rollback in Consumer Protection and Housing

By David Reiss

The video for the ABA Professor’s Corner webinar on Retrenchment and Rollback: Federal Consumer Protection and Housing has been posted. Rosa Newman (Elon) moderated and I spoke alongside Kathleen Engel (Suffolk) and Julie Patterson Forrester Rogers (SMU). The session explored “the federal government’s … Continue reading

March 4, 2025

Protecting the CFPB’s Overdraft Fee Rule

By David Reiss

I am a signatory to a letter being sent to the House’s Committee on Financial Services, in opposition to H.J. Res. 59 (Hill), CRA Resolution to Overturn CFPB Rule on Overdraft Lending: Very Large Financial Institutions. The letter states, The … Continue reading

May 13, 2019

Unfair, Unlawful and Abusive

By David Reiss

I signed on to a Memorandum in Support of a bill to amend New York’s consumer protection law to make it consistent with the laws of 39 other states and the federal government.  St. John’s Gina Calabrese led this effort.  … Continue reading