This is the American Bar Association's annual survey of key developments affecting the automobile finance industry. The survey is published in the Spring edition of the ABA's "The Business Lawyer." Federal and state regulators were keeping the pedal to the metal in many lanes of finance...

This article, part of the annual ABA survey covering developments within consumer finance, focuses on regulatory developments affecting automobile financing that occurred since the last survey. The most significant federal development was the entry of consent orders between the Bureau of...

This is the ABA's annual survey of key legal and regulatory developments affecting automotive finance in 2018. Federal and state law developments were rolling down the regulatory avenues of automotive finance during the past year (2018). The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (“CFPB”),...

As part of the Annual Survey of the American Bar Association, this article surveys the most important federal and state regulatory developments affecting automotive finance over the last year, among them (1) a fair lending consent order among the CFPB, the Department of Justice, and Ally...

This annual survey for the ABA summarizes key developments affecting automotive financing, focusing on the major state developments. We cover consent orders from Massachusetts and Delaware tied to the financing practices and securitizations of subprime retail installment contracts and touch on...

This is the annual survey of major legal and regulatory developments affecting the automobile financing. The survey is part of the larger annual survey of legal developments by the American Bar Association's Committee on Consumer Financial Services. This year’s auto finance survey reports on a...

Almost every aspect of the life cycle of retail contract and lease transactions, from marketing and account originations to servicing and collections, has received heightened regulatory attention during the past year (2015), since our previous Survey. This Survey highlights the most significant...

As part of Washington University School of Law's (WashULaw) Online Master of Legal Studies (MLS) program, students attend optional weekend immersion courses at the law school in St. Louis in both the spring and fall. We recently taught a course on consumer law over the spring 2018 weekend...

As part of the Annual Survey of the American Bar Association Section on Business Law, this article examines the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on the auto finance industry. Regulation of auto finance is being reshaped at the federal level by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection ("CFPB"),...