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University of Wyoming
Dee Pridgen

Dee Pridgen
Associate Dean and Carl M. Williams Professor of Law & Social Responsibility
B.A., Cornell University (1971), Phi Beta Kappa
J.D., New York University (1974), Order of the Coif and cum laude
pridgen@uwyo.edu • (307) 766-6416 • 104 College of Law

 

Office Hours:
Mon/Wed/Fri 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Tues/Thurs 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Other times are available by appointment, or please feel free to just drop in if you see me at my desk. Visitors are welcome.

 

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 is currently the Carl M. Williams Professor of Law & Social Responsibility.  She teaches or has taught 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 Faculty 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, coauthored with Richard M. Alderman 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 (3d ed. Thomson/West 2007).  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.
 

Teaching:
Antitrust and Consumer Protection

 

Publications:

Articles

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

Pridgen, D. (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.

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

Books

Pridgen, D. & Alderman, R. (2008).  CONSUMER PROTECTION AND THE LAW (Thomson/West, updated yearly).

Pridgen, D. & Alderman, R. (2008).  CONSUMER CREDIT AND THE LAW (Thomson/West, updated yearly).

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

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

Presentations

Pridgen, D. (2007).  Presented Paper, "Fair Credit Reporting Act: Navigating the Maze," at 7th Consumer Issues Conference, Sept. 27, 2007, Laramie, WY.

Pridgen, D. (2006).  Presented Paper, "Predatory Lending Issues," 6th Consumer Issues Conference, September 28, 2006, Laramie, WY.

Pridgen, D. (2006).  Conference faculty and moderator, "Teaching Materials: Past, Present and Future", and "Hot Topics in Consumer Law", at Third Teaching Consumer Law Conference, University of Houston Center for Consumer Law, Houston, Texas (May 23-24, 2008) and (May 19-20, 2006).

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

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

Pridgen, D. (2004). 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 (2004).

Pridgen, D. (2003). 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.

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

Pridgen, D. (2002). CLE presentation on Internet Law, Wyoming Bar Association Annual Conference, Jackson, Wyoming, September 13, 2002.

Pridgen, D. (2001). Presentation on "Consumer Protection on the Internet," Second Annual Consumer Issues Conference, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, March 20, 2001.

Pridgen, D. (2001). 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.

Pridgen, D. (1999). 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.

 

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