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The contributors to this blog are a diverse group of lawyers and law professors who practice, teach, or write about consumer law and policy. Although the blog is hosted by Public Citizen's Consumer Justice Project, the views expressed here are solely those of the individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of the institutions with which they are affiliated. To view the blog's statement of policies, please click here.
Coordinators
- Deepak Gupta
Public Citizen Litigation Group - Jeff Sovern
St. John's University School of Law
Other Contributors
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Richard Alderman
University of Houston Law Center -
David Arkush
Public Citizen's Congress Watch -
Greg Beck
Public Citizen Litigation Group -
Paul Bland
Public Justice -
Stephen Gardner
Center for Science in the Public Interest -
Samuel J. Glover
Samuel J. Glover & Associates, LLC -
Paul Alan Levy
Public Citizen Litigation Group -
Scott Nelson
Public Citizen Litigation Group -
Chris Peterson
University of Utah,
S.J. Quinney College of Law -
Michael Quirk
Williams Cuker Berezofsky -
Ira Rheingold
National Association of Consumer Advocates -
Jon Sheldon
National Consumer Law Center -
Alan White
Valparaiso University School of Law -
Brian Wolfman
Georgetown University Law Center
Blogs On Consumer Issues
- Americans for Fairness in Lending Blog
- Alabama Consumer Law Blog
- CAFA Law Blog
- Caveat Emptor
- Citizen Vox
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- Consumer Affairs with Sheryl Harris
- THE CONSUMERIST
- Credit Slips
- Home Equity Theft Reporter
- Fair Arbitration NOW Blog
- National Arbitration Forum Blog
- Point of Law
- Prescription Access Litigation (PAL) Blog
- Reasonable Basis
- Ross' Arbitration Blog
- Tort Deform
- The Tortellini
- UCL Practitioner
- U.S. PIRG Consumer Blog
- Warren Reports
Other Interesting Legal Blogs
- American Constitution Society Blog
- Balkinization
- Banking Law Prof Blog
- Chicago Law Faculty Blog
- Concurring Opinions
- The Conglomerate
- ContractsProf Blog
- Decision of the Day
- Electronic Frontier Foundation DeepLinks
- Empirical Legal Studies
- How Appealing
- Larry Lessig
- Legal Theory Blog
- Mass Tort Litigation Blog
- Opinio Juris
- PrawfsBlawg
- Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log
- SCOTUSblog
- TortsProf Blog
- Trademark Blog
- Truth on the Market
- The Volokh Conspiracy
Consumer Law & Policy Links
- AAAP Foundation Litigation
- AEI Federalism Project
- AEI Liability Project
- American Collectors' Association
- Americans for Fairness in Lending
- Americans for Financial Reform
- American Tort Reform Association
- American Association of Justice
- Center for American Progress
- Center for Justice and Democracy
- Center for Responsible Lending
- Center for Science in the Public Interest
- Center for Study of Responsive Law
- Consumer Action
- Consumer Federation of America
- Consumers Union
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- EU Consumer Policy Page
- Fair Arbitration NOW
- Federal Trade Commission
- International Association of Consumer Law
- National Association of Consumer Advocates
- National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys
- National Community Reinvestment Coalition
- National Consumer Law Center
- Public Citizen
- SSRN
- State PIRGs
- Public Justice (formerly Trial Lawyers for Public Justice)
- Treasury Department, Regulatory Reform Agenda
- U.S. Chamber Legal Reform
- U.S. Chamber Litigation Center
- U.S. Public Interest Research Group
Greg Beck
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 20th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009
(202) 588-1000 | E-mail: gbeck @ citizen.org
Greg Beck is a staff attorney at Public Citizen Litigation Group, where he litigates issues of free speech, intellectual property, open government, and consumer law. Mr. Beck joined the litigation group in 2005 as an Equal Justice Works fellow. His fellowship project focused on defending consumers on the Internet from actual or threatened lawsuits for communicating their opinions online.
Mr. Beck received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in 1997, graduating summa cum laude. During the next several years, he worked as a software developer and became interested in issues of digital rights. In 2004, Mr. Beck earned his law degree summa cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he served as Articles Editor of the University of Illinois Law Review and received the Outstanding Clinical Student award for his work in the college's Civil Litigation Clinic. During law school, Mr. Beck completed internships for a legal aid clinic and for a federal district court judge. He also spent a summer as a law clerk at Public Citizen Litigation Group, where he worked on issues of First Amendment and consumer law. From 2004-2005, Mr. Beck clerked for the Honorable Michael R. Murphy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Mr. Beck is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Illinois Bar.
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July 2009
Conferences
ABA Section of Antitrust Law, 2009 Consumer Protection Conference
June 18-19, 2009, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
American Bar Association 2009 Annual Meeting
July 30-August 4, 2009, Chicago, IL
Federal Trade Commission, Protecting Consumers in Debt Collection Litigation and Arbitration: A Roundtable Discussion
August 5-6, 2009, Northwestern School of Law, Chicago, IL
18th Annual
Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, sponsored by the National Consumer
Law Center
October 22-25, 2009, Philadelphia, PA
