Dee Pridgen photoDee Pridgen

Practice Areas

  • Consumer Law - generally
  • Federal Trade Commission consumer protection law
  • State unfair and deceptive trade practices law

DEE PRIDGEN is an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming’s College of Law, where she taught from 1982 until her retirement in 2019. She received her Juris Doctorate in 1974, from New York University, and a B.A. in 1971, from Cornell University. She is a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Beta Kappa. Pridgen has been a Fulbright Scholar/Lecturer at Tokyo University in Japan and a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, the University of Maryland School of Law, and the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. She also served as a Staff Attorney, for the Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Washington, D.C. from 1978-82.

Pridgen’s publications include numerous articles, as well as two treatises aimed at practicing attorneys, Consumer Protection and the Law, and Consumer Credit and the Law, coauthored with Richard Alderman and Jolina Cuaresma, both published by Thomson Reuters, and updated yearly. She is also a coauthor (with Jeff Sovern and Christopher Peterson) of a law school casebook entitled Consumer Law: Cases and Materials (West Academic, 5h ed. 2020) and co-editor of a statutory supplement SELECTED CONSUMER STATUTES (West Academic 2019). She is also the author of the 5th edition of Consumer Protection Law in a Nutshell (West Academic 2020).

Professional Affiliations

  • Elected member American Law Institute since 2003
  • Member ALI advisory committee on Restatement of the Law of Consumer Contracts since 2012

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