On November 10, the Paul Tsai China Center held a full-day workshop at Yale Law School on U.S. and Chinese consumer protection laws. The event was part of a new cooperative project between the Center and Shenzhen University Law School’s Center for Regulation and Public Policy to advise the Shenzhen government as it works to draft new consumer protection legislation. The workshop discussions focused on a wide range of pressing legal and regulatory issues in consumer protection facing both countries, including online privacy and security, effective regulatory enforcement, and mechanisms for resolving consumer complaints.
The workshop was organized by Senior Fellow Su Lin Han and featured talks by scholars from Shenzhen University Law School on consumer protection challenges in China, including the dean of the law school, Dean Huang Yaying, as well as Professor Ying Feihu, and Dr. Duan Lile, Director and Deputy Director of the school’s Center for Regulation and Public Policy. The workshop also featured a distinguished panel of current and former top federal and state consumer protection regulators from the United States, including Professor David Vladeck of Georgetown University Law Center, who led the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection until 2012; Lois Greisman, Associate Director in charge of the Division of Marketing Practices at the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection; Peggy Twohig, Assistant Director for Supervision Policy at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Mary Pendergast of Pendergast Consulting, the former Deputy Commissioner of the FDA; and Michelle Seagull, Deputy Commissioner of the Connecticut of Department of Consumer Protection.
In addition to the workshop, the Center also helped to facilitate field visits by the Shenzhen scholars to a number of federal and local consumer protection agencies and prominent consumer groups.
