The University of Texas at Austin

Conference on Commercial Law Realities
March 27-28, 2009
Sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin School of Law & Harvard Law School

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Friday, March 27, 2009

EMPIRICAL

CONSUMER

8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
   
8:30 a.m. Richard Hynes,Virginia
  Does Pay-day Lending Catch Vulnerable Communities in a Debt Trap?
   
9:30 a.m. Nathalie Martin, New Mexico
  Customer Understanding Pay-day Lending
   
10:30 a.m. Break
   
10:50 a.m. James Hawkins,Houston
  Financing Fertility
   
12:00 p.m. Luncheon at the UT Club
  Brandl What is Missing from the Public Debate on the Financial Crisis
   
1:15 p.m. Deborah Thorne, Ohio
  The Familial Implications of Extreme Debt
   
2:15 p.m. Angie Littwin,Texas
  Domestic Violence in Bankruptcy
   
3:15 p.m. Break
   
3:30 p.m. Florencia Marotta Wurgler, NYU
  Studying Consumer Contracting Behavior Using Internet Clekstream Data
   
4:30 p.m. General Collapse
   
5:00 p.m. Return to the Driskill Hotel
   
7:30 p.m. Dinner at the Prof. Littwin's House

 

Saturday, March 28, 2009

8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
   
8:15 a.m. Rafael Pardo, Seattle
  An Empirical Examination of Access to Chapter 7 Relief Pro Se Debtors
   
9:15 a.m. Paige Skiba,Vanderbilt
  The Ticket to Easy Street? The Financial Consequences of Winning the Lottery
   
10:15 a.m. Katherine Porter,Iowa
  Capter 13 Success and Failure
   
11:15 a.m. Lunch-Townes Hall Sheffield Room
  End of Conference