Innovation and the Transformation of Consumer Law (PDF)

the Inaugural Director of the law school's European Law Program and has held several university administrative positions, including a term as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the law school and as Interim Director of the Indiana University Center on Southeast Asia. Professor Nehf's publications include several chapters in a leading commercial law treatise, Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code (where he now serves as principal author and editor), an updated and revised edition of Corbin on Contracts-The Impossibility Doctrine, a book on privacy law, Open Book: The Failed Promise of Information Privacy in America, and numerous other book chapters and articles on commercial law, consumer finance, privacy law, low-income consumer transactions, and international/comparative law subjects. He currently serves on the editorial board for the Markets and Law Series at Ashgate Publishing. Professor Nehf graduated first in his law school class, served as Editor-in-Chief of the North Carolina Law Review, and was elected to Order of the Coif. After law school, he worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and entered private practice with O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. Before joining the faculty in 1989, he was a partner in the Washington firm of Choate, Filler, & Nehf, specializing in commercial and consumer litigation. Professor Nehf has also taught as a Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University, Mercer University, and the University of Georgia.
Claudia Lima Marques is an expert in the fields of Consumer Law, Private Law, and both Private and Public International Law. Having earned her Bachelor of Law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, she went on to study a Masters of Law at the University of Tübingen and a Ph.D. summa cum laude at the University of Heidelberg. Currently, Titular Professor and Coordinator of the postgraduate Law Program of the Law School of UFRGS, Claudia holds a number of positions on national and international legal and consumer protection bodies. She has written and lectured extensively on private law, on conflicts of laws, over-indebtedness, and consumer law issues and has published articles in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, UK, and USA. Recently, she received two degrees of Doutor Honoris Causa from the Universidade Justus Liebig de Giessen of Germany and from Universidade de Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB) of France.