Lauren E. Willis is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at LMU
Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) and has held visiting appointments at Harvard,
Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania. She is a leading critic of the
use of financial education, disclosures, and “nudges” for
regulating consumer transactions. She has developed a ground-breaking
performance-based approach to consumer law that unites the interests of firms
with consumers and retail investors and enables regulators to keep pace with
rapid marketplace change. Most recently, she has identified how law must evolve to
address a new threat to fair competition and consumer protection -- business use of
artificial intelligence to design and target online communications and interfaces.
Before academia, Professor Willis worked at the U.S. Department of Justice and with
the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. She co-founded the Consumer Law Scholars
Conference and was an adviser to the American Law Institute’s Consumer
Contracts Restatement project.