DEE PRIDGEN

Associate Dean and Professor of Law

Office: 104 College of Law Building
Telephone: 307-766-6416
Email address: pridgen@uwyo.edu

Listen to Dean Pridgen's overview of the effect of 2005 events, particularly hurricane Katrina, on consumer law.

Dee Pridgen has been a member of the University of Wyoming’s College of Law faculty since 1982. In addition to serving as the associate dean, she was selected as the Centennial Distinguished Professor for the 1995-99 term. She teaches classes in Consumer Protection, Contracts, Antitrust, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, and Internet Law.

A 1997-1998 Fulbright Scholar/Lecturer at Tokyo University in Japan, Dee has also been 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. Before she joined the College of Law at the University of Wyoming, she served as a Staff Attorney, for the Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Washington, D.C. from 1978-82. She was also a law clerk for the Honorable Barrington D. Parker, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia from 1974-76. In May of 2003, Pridgen was elected to membership in the American Law Institute.

Dee Pridgen's publications include two treatises aimed at practicing attorneys, Consumer Protection and the Law, and Consumer Credit and the Law, both published by Thomson/West, and both of which are updated yearly. She is also a coauthor of a law school casebook entitled Consumer Law: Cases and Materials (West 2d ed.), currently working on the third edition. She has written articles and reports on consumer law, and has given presentations at international consumer law meetings in Helsinki, Finland and Auckland, New Zealand.

Education

B.A., Cornell University (1971), Phi Beta Kappa.
J.D., New York University (1974), cum laude and Order of the Coif.

Recent Publications

Books

Contributing Member, ABA Adjunct Faculty Committee, Adjunct Faculty Handbook (2005).

CONSUMER CREDIT AND THE LAW (Thomson/West, 1990, and yearly updates).

CONSUMER LAW, CASES AND MATERIALS, 3d edition (Thomson/West, forthcoming 2007) (with Andy Spanogle, Ralph Rohner and Jeff Sovern).

CONSUMER PROTECTION AND THE LAW (Thomson/West, 1986, and yearly updates).

Articles

Predatory Lending: The Hidden Scourge of the Housing Boom, Wyoming Lawyer, Vol. XXVII, No. 5, 18-23 (October 2005).

Rent-to-Own and Automobile Leasing: Information Disclosures in the United States, 7 CONSUMER L.J. 307 (1999)

The Role of State and Private Enforcement in American Consumer Protection, published in Japanese in Houritsu-jihou, November 1999, as translated by Koichi Hosokawa.

Recent Presentations

Conference faculty and moderator, Teaching Materials: Past, Present and Future, Third Teaching Consumer Law Conference, University of Houston Center for Consumer Law, Houston, Texas (May 19-20, 2006).

Commentator, 6th Annual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago, School of Law, Chicago, Illinois (April 28, 2006).

Presented Pager, "Amazing Claims: Deceptive Marketing of Weight Loss Products," at the 5th Wyoming Consumer Issues Conference, October 7th, 2004, Laramie, Wyoming

Presented Paper, “Truth in Lending and Consumer Leasing Disclosures: What’s the Point?” at the 4th Wyoming Consumer Issues Conference, March 25, 2003, Laramie, Wyoming

CLE presentation on Internet Law, Wyoming Bar Association Annual Conference, Jackson, Wyoming, September 13, 2002

Conference Faculty and presenter on "Selecting Teaching Materials," and "Innovative Teaching Methods," at Teaching Consumer Law Conference, April 26-27, 2002, and May 20-21, 2004, University of Houston Center for Consumer Law, Houston, Texas

Presented Paper, "Consumer Privacy Protection on the Internet"
at 3d Wyoming Consumer Issues Conference, March 15, 2002, Laramie, Wyoming

Presented Paper, "Gateway to Injustice: Arbitration Imposed on U.S. Consumers by Adhesion Contracts," at the 8th International Conference on Consumer Law, Auckland, New Zealand, April 10, 2001.

Presentation on "Consumer Protection on the Internet," Second Annual Consumer Issues Conference, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, March 20, 2001

Presented Paper, “Rent-to-Own and Automobile Leasing: Information Disclosures in the United States,” at the 7th International Conference on Consumer Law, Helsinki, Finland, May 21, 1999