Citizen Works, a 501 (c) (3) nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, and a number of volunteers and seasoned allies who contribute content, have incubated the Fair Contracts Project at Faircontracts.org to rebalance the power between businesses and individual consumers by educating about and reforming harmful provisions to consumers in the fine print of standard form contracts.
Join us as we create a reinvigorated frontier in contract and consumer law to replace the gobbledygook of unfair fine print and make business-to-consumer standard form contracts fair, accessible and understandable for consumers.
Thank you!
The Fair Contracts Reform Team:
Theresa Amato, project director, ex. director, Citizen Works
Cathy Konas, project assistant
Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, founder Citizen Works
Noah Samuels, paralegal
Frank Tuma, web programmer
We need volunteers! Please contact us if you are interested.
To apply for the Contract Reform Team or an Internship at Citizen Works, please visit the careers portion of citizenworks.org. Thank you for your interest.
FAIR CONTRACTS ADVISORY BOARD*
F. Paul Bland, Jr., senior attorney, Public Justice
Joan Claybrook, former president, Public Citizen
Thomas Geoghegan, principal, Despres, Schwartz & Geoghegan
Deepak Gupta, principal, Gupta Beck, Former Senior Counsel, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, adjunct law professor Georgetown Law School, and lead counsel for Concepcion in A T & T vs. Concepcion.
Charles L. Knapp, Joseph W. Cotchett Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law
Margaret Jane Radin, Henry King Ransom Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Harvey Rosenfield, attorney, consumer advocate, founder of Consumer Watchdog
Joseph Siprut, Founder and Managing Partner, Siprut PC, Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
Jeff Sovern, Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law
Spencer Waller, Professor and Director, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
John Wasik, award-winning personal finance columnist and author of 13 books, johnwasik.com
Dr. Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor Emeritus, Center for African American Studies, Princeton University
Lauren Willis, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
*In formation as of March 2013, Titles for identification purposes only
INTERNS & VOLUNTEERS
2012 Interns & Volunteers
- Cooper Spinelli, American University (2014)
- Patrick Gleeson, Loyola University School of Law (2013)
- Lyra Haas, Boston University School of Law (2014)
- Joseph Axelrod, Loyola University School of Law (2014)
- Lonnie Ray Atkinson, social justice artist lonnierayatkinson.com
- Billy Nevin, artist (Frog Hog, Cat Lobster) http://billynevin.com/
2011 Interns & Volunteers
- Christopher Akinyemi, Volunteer
- Erika Beer, Georgetown Law School (2013)
- Parag Bhayani, Volunteer
- Jason Borg, Northern Illinois University College of Law (2013)
- Ryanne N. Bush, The John Marshall Law School (2013)
- Eliza Clark Riffe, University of Chicago Law School (2013)
- Patricia Hicks, Volunteer
- Sarah Moravia, DePaul University School of Law (2012)
- Kyra Monroe, University of San Diego School of Law (2013)
- Valerie I Petein, Northwestern University School of Law (2012)
- Kendall Louise Rice, The John Marshall Law School (2012)
- Christopher J. Schad, University of Michigan Law School (2013)
- Phillip D. Skaggs, Chicago-Kent College of Law (2012)
- Jeff Tate, University of Chicago Law School (2013)
- Justin P. Taylor, Loyola University School of Law (2013)
2010 Interns & Volunteers
- Students from the Harvard Law School Legislative Research Bureau/HLS Journal on Legislation
- Steven H. Bardo, California State University (2010)
- Max Brauer, University of Maryland, JD/MPP (2012)
- Hillary DeLong, Chicago Kent College of Law (2012)
- James C. Dolbeare Jr., Chicago Kent College of Law (2011)
- Elijah Gjeltema, NYU School of Law (2012)
- Lindsey Goldberg, Volunteer Attorney
- Dylan Hanson, Columbia Law (2011)
- Paul Lee, Northwestern Law (2011)
- Stella Lee, Northwestern Law (2011)
- Eric Lipman, Volunteer Attorney
- Gideon Newmark, Volunteer Attorney
- Margot A. Nikitas, Chicago Kent College of Law (2012)
- Lennie Sliwinksi, Cornell Law School (2011)
- Stephen Wheeler, Northwestern School of Law (2012)
2009 Interns & Volunteers
- Steven H. Bardo, California State University (2010)
- Jason Dirkx, Chicago-Kent College of Law (2011)
- Zachary Gima, Temple University Beasley School of Law (2008)
- Lindsey Goldberg, Case Western Reserve Law (2009)
- Robert Hebert, Georgetown Law (2011)
- James Hooper, NYU Law (2011)
- Addison Kim, Cornell Law (2011)
- Chang Sik Lim, Cornell Law (2011)
- Eric Lipman, Volunteer Attorney
- Di Liu, Northwestern University School of Law (2011)
- Wellington Lyons, Loyola University Chicago School of Law (2011)
- Gideon Newmark, Case Western Reserve Law (2009)
- Dominick Sfregola, Georgetown Law (2008)
- James Sullivan, NYU Law (2011)
- Xuexue Zhang, Chicago-Kent College of Law (2011)
