Professor of Law. A.B., J.D., Columbia University.
Jeff Sovern is a Professor of Law at St. John’s University in New
York City where he teaches Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection,
Introduction to Law, and Theater Law. Most of his writings focus on
consumer law. He co-authored a casebook titled Consumer Law:
Cases and Materials (3d ed. 2007 Thomson/West) with Professors John
A. Spanogle, Ralph J. Rohner, and Dee Pridgen with whom he also
co-edited Selected Consumer Statutes (2007 and 2009
edition). He is also a co-coordinator of the Consumer Law and
Policy Blog, which can be read at www.clpblog.org, and the
co-editor of the Consumer Law Abstracts Journal for the Social
Science Research Network, available at www.ssrn.com. His scholarly
writings have appeared in the Wisconsin Law Review, Fordham Law
Review, Washington Law Review, William and Mary Law Review, Ohio
State Law Journal, The Business Lawyer, Federal Rules Decisions,
the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Missouri Law Review,
McGeorge Law Review, DePaul Law Review, Advancing the Consumer
Interest, the Annual Review of Banking Law, Columbia Journal of Law
and Social Problems, Journal of Consumer Affairs, and Encyclopedia
of Housing. He has a piece forthcoming in the Ohio
State Law Journal. He has also published essays in The New
York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the American Banker, the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the New York Daily News, the Hill, CNN.com
and a variety of blogs. His writings have been referred to in
numerous casebooks, treatises, law review articles, and court
decisions. The American Council on Consumer Interests awarded
Professor Sovern the Russell A. Dixon Prize in 2002 and its 2010
Applied Consumer Economics Award.
Professor Sovern can be heard discussing privacy issues during an
hour-long interview on the University of California—Irvine’s radio
show “Privacy
Policy” initially broadcast on July 26, 2006. He
has spoken at the Conference of the American Association of Law
Schools, the National Consumer Law Center’s Consumer Rights
Litigation Conference, and at the University of Houston’s
Conference on Teaching Consumer Law. He has been quoted in
The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World
Reports, Newsday, the New York Daily News, the ABA Journal EReport,
and on CBS News. He has also published 23 letters in The New
York Times.
Professor Sovern has servedas Reporter to the Eastern District
Discovery Oversight Committee and on committees of the American and
New York State Bar Associations and the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York. Professor Sovern teaches Civil Procedure,
Consumer Protection, Introduction to Law, and Theater Law.
Before joining the law faculty, Professor Sovern served as law
clerk to Judge Frank A. Kaufman of the United States District Court
for the District of Maryland and practiced law in the litigation
department of a major New York City law firm. He holds A.B.
and J.D. degrees from Columbia University.